Breaking point: Class, Women and Liberation in the 21st Century

Working-class women in the twenty-first century are at breaking point. The demands of family, work and life in neoliberal Britain are making it impossible for most women to see the prospects for liberation that opened up in the 1960s and 1970s. Lindsey German argues that the left is failing to relate to this crisis. She refocuses women’s liberation on the needs and experiences of women from the working class and…