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Virago: Changing The World One Page at a Time

Name: Virago: Changing The World One Page at a Time
Director: Claire Whalley
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-10-31
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Carmen Callil, Ursula Owen, Harriet Spicer, Lennie Goodings, Alexandra Pringle

20161h 0mDirected by Claire Whalley

Despite the 1960s free-love and alternative culture, many women found that their lives and expectations had barely altered. But by the 1970s, the Women's Liberation Movement was causing seismic shifts in the march of the world's events, and women's creativity and political consciousness was soon to transform everything - including the face of publishing and literature. In 1973 a group of women got together and formed Virago Press; an imprint, they said, for 52 per cent of the population. These women were determined to make change - and they would start by giving women a voice, by giving them back their history and reclaiming women's literature.

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