United Kingdom
PUBLICATIONS
Association of Radical Midwives Newsletter 17 Fairfax Road Derby England Telephone: - 371471
Quarterly. Annual subscription: £ 2.00
The Association of Radical Midwives is a group, now widespread in the United Kingdom, of women concerned about the erosion of the role of the midwife and the consequent lack of choice for childbearing women. Aims to be a vehicle of shared information, news, issues. Gives book and film reviews, lists useful books, addresses etc. and includes section
Catcall 37 Wortley Road London E6 England
Appears irregularly — 3 to 5 issues a year. Annual subscription £ 1.00 - 5 copies. Bulk rates (5 or more)
15 Pence each including postage. Single copy 20 Pence. Overseas postage extra. A feminist discussion paper, providing a non-sectarian forum for discussion, theory and exchange of ideas by and for women in the women's liberation movement. It does not print fiction, but would welcome articles on any topic, as well as cartoons, cover designs etc.
Feminism and Non-violence Newsletter c/o Jenny Jacobs and Lesley Merryf inch 2 Mentor Street Manchester 13 England
6 issues a year.
Published in English, French and German. Carries news and addresses of feminist and nonviolence groups in various countries; resource listings of periodicals, books and articles. Covers nuclear power etc
The Girl's Guide (published as GAIA's Guide in the United States) 1 North End Road London W14 England
Annual publication.
The publication is a lesbian guide, which lists groups, organizations, magazines, newspapers, book-stores, bars, travel-agents, restaurants, etc. which are by and for gay persons, and particularly lesbian gays. It also lists events and activities in the gay movement.
Women's Center P.O. Box 287 London NW6
Free to women, but donations are welcome.
Labrish is the West Indian word for gossip and is the title of a new paper put out by black women of the Wages for Housework Campaign in Britain. This group also publishes a "Campaign Bulletin".
Link Communist Party Women's Journal 16 King Street London WC2E SHY England Telephone (01) 836 2151
Quarterly magazine. Annual subscription £ 1.70 (post free) from - Central Books, 14 The Leather Market, London SE1 3ER, England. Single copy 30 Pence.
First published in 1973, has 3 aims — to campaign on issues of special concern to women, to provide an ideological forum for discussion, and to further the policies of the Communist Party. It has carried articles on the principal campaigns of women in Britain, (abortion, contraception, nursery education and child care, equality of opportunity, etc.), discussion articles and letters on the family, trade union attitudes to women, sexuality, sexism and other ideological questions. Also carries book reviews and occasional reprints of articles
The London Women's Liberation Newsletter A Women's Place 48 William IV Street London WC2 9LA England Telephone: - 836 6081
Weekly newsletter. Subscription rates £ 1.26 — 7 weeks, £ 1.80 - 10 weeks,£ 2.88 - 16 weeks, £ 3.60 - 20 weeks, £ 5.94 - 33 weeks and Annual Subscription £ 9.00.
Was set up in 1971 by the London Women's Liberation group, operating from the Women's Center in central London. The Newsletter contains a calendar of events and information about issues within the local women's liberation movement.
Move c/o Move Collective 32 Hill Street Totterdown Bristol BS3 4TW England Telephone: - 0 2 7 2 712621
Monthly — (Not very regular but attempting to regularize) Costs £ 3 for 10 issues, £ 1.75 for 5 issues, 60 Pence for 3 samples of back issues, and 30 Pence per copy.
The magazine is produced by the Bristol Gay Women and aims to reduce the isolation of gay women, to offer information to gay women and to the general public, to raise the consciousness of women and join in the fight to remove the social oppression of all women. It carries information of the women's liberation movement, as well as the gay movement, book reviews, poems and stories.
Revolutionary and Radical Feminist Nexsletter {For Women Only) 17 Kensington Terrace Leeds 6 Yorkshire England
Subscriptions £ 1 for 4 issues, single copy 20 Pence.
The Newsletter attempts to create a forum for Revolutionary and Radical Feminists to discuss theoretical questions, and also crack jokes, let off steam, write articles, doubt and debate freely
Rights of Women Bulletin 374 Grays Inn Road London WCl England Telephone: - (01) 278 6349
Bi-monthly. Membership rates, with subscription to the bulletin: - £ 10.00 for organizations, £ 7.00 for wage-earners, £ 2.50 for articled clerks and non-wage earners.
Weekly advice sessions - Tuesday and Thursday 7-9pm at the Rights of Women (ROW) office - for women who want help or advice and information on legal problems.The bulletin is brought out by a collective of women working in the legal profession or interested in the law, who think that it is important for women to help each other "find our way round the many man-made laws that affect our lives, and make legal services responsive to women's interests".
The bulletin contains details of new and proposed legislation, tribunal and court decisions affecting women, books and pamphlets recently published, information about their workshops and other activities. The ROW group has an office with a full-time worker, a growing library on the law as an office with a full-time worker, a growing library on the law as it affects women and runs free legal advice sessions. Also aims to act as a pressure group to achieve legislation which benefits women and is determined by women
Roman Catholic Feminists c/o 33 Arlow Road London N21 3JS, UK Occasional newsletter
Roman Catholic Feminist is London based and aims at a network of groups nation/worldwide; "We unite and support each other in our efforts to integrate feminism and Catholicism and also to bring the various issues to the attention of the whole Church".
Scarlet Women c/o Scarlet Women Collective 5 Washington Terrace North Shields Tyne and Wear England
Subscription — £ 1.20 for 3 issues. Single copy 45 Pence.
Published by Scarlet Women Collective, this is a newsletter of the Socialist Feminist current of the women's liberation movement. They publish papers, letters, articles, ideas that develop the thought and effectiveness of socialist feminism. Aims to facilitate the debate about the class struggle and relation to left groups through contributions based on the belief that an autonomous women's liberation movement and autonomous movements have the right to define their own oppression and the struggle against it.
Spare Rib Spare Ribs Ltd., 27 Clerkenwell Close, London EC1 R OAT England Subscriptions/renewals: Linda Philips, 114 George Street, Berkhamsted, Herts HP4 2EJ England Telephone: - (01)253 9792/3 Monthly magazine. Annual subscription: Britain and Ireland £ 6.50, Europe and elsewhere sea-mail £ 8.00/US $ 18.50, airmail Middle East £ 11,00/US $ 25.00, Africa, North and South America £ 12.00/US $ 27.50, Far East and Australasia £ 13.00/US$ 30.00.
Produced collectively by fourteen women. Spare Rib is a feminist magazine which has been going for over 8 years, and was originally set up to provide a feminist alternative to the conventional women's magazines. It has consistently good feature articles on a wide variety of topics, including health, women at work, nuclear power, prostitution, and the women's movement internationally, and carries news, fiction and poetry, reviews and letters. Although mainly geared to .women in Britain, it is a valuable resource to women elsewhere. We highly recommend it.
WIRES Newsletter (For Women Only) 32 A Shakespeare Street Nottingham England Telephone: - 0 6 0 2 411475
Fortnightly newsletter. Annual subscription — Individuals £ 7.00, £ 5 if poor, £ 14 for groups (2 copies), £ 10 if poor, single copies 25 Pence. Center open — Monday to Friday, 10.30 am to 4.30 pm.
WIRES (Women's Information, Referral and Inquiry Service) was set up in 1975 by the National Women's Liberation Conference, and is run by a collective of women. It moves every two years in order to avoid centralization of information and power.
Provides an information service with comprehensive files of groups, campaigns, contacts etc. Also produces the WIRES Newsletter, which is almost the only one of its kind, which aims to act as a central point of contact in the women's liberation movement, for women's groups to keep in touch with each other and report their activities, enable more isolated women to discover the various campaigns, projects and research going on in the women's front nationally and internationally.
All material sent in is printed, provided it abides by the 7 demands of the women's liberation movement and is by women. They are also producing a revised version for their "Directory of Women's Liberation Newsletters, Magazines, Journals..." in June 1980.
Women and Education Newsletter c/o Joy Rose 14 St. Brendan's Road Withington Manchester 20 England
The Newsletter is produced 3 times a year. Annual subscription: £ 1.05, reduced rate 70 Pence for unwaged, and students. Bulk rate £ 1.50 for 5 copies of one issue. Institutions - £ 3.00. Non-profit making feminist and socialist institutions -£ 1.05. International: - Individuals £ 3.00, Institutions £ 6,00 (Payment should be sent with all orders.)
Set up in 1973 to meet the need for co-ordination among interested women. Aimed at teachers, students, and those interested in education. A feminist newsletter which reviews the educational system with the view to fight sexism in education. Carries interesting articles and book reviews
Women's Studies Newsletter c/o Carolyn Brown 176 Hagley Road Stourbridge DY8 2JN England Telephone: - Stourbridge 5131
A quarterly. Annual subscriptions; Individuals £ 1.00, 75 Pence if poor. Group rate (10 copies of each issue) £ 5.00. Institutions and libraries (one copy of each issue) £ 5.00. Single copy 20 Pence.
Women's studies is one branch of the work of the Worker's Education Association, which runs a number of courses and studies, which involve ways of looking at the whole area of sex role stereotyping of women and men with particular regard to the effect of women's changing social roles. The newsletter covers the developments in this field — covers the women's studies courses offered, discussions held, book-reviews, etc
WRRC Newsletter The Women's Research and Resource Center 190 Upper Street London N1 England Telephone:-(01) 359 5773
Every two months. Annual subscription £ 7.00. Institutions and individuals earning £ 6,000 or more pay £ 12.00 People on low income pay whatever they can afford. A subscriber can borrow books from the library
Center is open from 11.00 to 5.00, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
The WRRC Newsletter is a product of the Women's Research and Resource Center, which works to provide information facilities for people doing research on subjects of importance to women and the women's movement. Facilities include seminars, a library, a research index, information on women's studies and the newsletter.
The main contents of the newsletter are: women's studies news, which lists new courses offered on women; research index, which includes titles of research added to the WRRC research index; book reviews and books received.
LOCAL PUBLICATIONS
Bradford Women's Liberation Newsletter c/o 4th. Idea Bookshop 14 South gate Bradford 1 England
Set up a few years ago by a group, to provide information for women in the area and facilitate contact. Internal to the Bradford women's liberation movement. Grant aided, each local action group takes a turn in producing the newsletter
The Brighton and Hove Women's Liberation Newsletter C/o Brighton Women's Center Resource Center North Road Brighton England Telephone: -605911
Monthly. Annual Subscription £ 3. Center Open: — Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 11-2 and 6.30- 8 pm
The Newsletter is a local women's paper produced by the Brighton Women's Center and caters for women only. The Women's Center provides information, pregnancy tests and a place for women to meet.
Bristol Women's Liberation Newsletter c/o Women's Center 44 The Grove Bristol 1 England
Cambridge Women's Liberation Newsletter The Newsletter Group 48 Eden Street Cambridge England Telephone: - 4 9 2 46
Monthly newsletter. Annual Subscription £ 3.00, £ 1.50 for 6 months.
A local women's newsletter which keeps women informed about issues, events and activities in the women's liberation movement in Cambridge, as well as nationally.
Leeds Women's Liberation Newsletter c/o Corner Bookshop Woodhouse La ne Leeds England
Single issue 10 Pence Contains news, information, contact list, etc.
Manchester Women's Liberation Newsletter c/o Helen Garner 543 William Kent Cresent Hulme, Manchester 15 England Telephone: - 2 2 6 7573
5 Pence per copy.
A local women's liberation newsletter, which is committed to challenging women's oppression by spreading feminist ideas and by building the movement. They cover local and important national events and issues in the women's liberation movement
Manchester Women's Paper c/o Sheila 4 Bednal Avenue Manchester 10 England Telephone: - 205 6528
A women's paper brought out by a group of feminists who feel in their own words, "the need to fill in a gap between Women's Own and Spare Rib". They attempt to make the ideas of the Women's Liberation Movement more accessible to other women.
Merseyside Women's Paper c/o Women's Center Rialto Community Center 76 Upper Parliament Street Liverpool 8 England
Quarterly. Single copy 20 Pence.
A local women's paper which carries news of happenings in the local women's liberation movement, important issues in the women's movement internationally , book reviews, poems and other literary contributions by women.
York Feminist News c/o York Women's Center 32 Parliament street York England Telephone: - 35471
A monthly newspaper 20 Pence per copy.
Center open: - Tuesday 12-4, Thursday 12-2, Saturday 11-1.
York Feminist News is a local women's paper, brought out by the York Women's Center (women meet here, to exchange information and seek advice. Also runs a free pregnancy testing service.) The paper is a mixture of personal writing , fiction , theoretical articles and comment on topical issues.
PUBLISHERS
Feminist Books P.O. Box HP5 Leeds LS6 1 LN England
An independent publishing house with an all woman editorial board. Publish books, post-cards, posters etc. Title s include Wedlocked Women by Lee Come, The conditions of Illusion - papers from the women's movement, edited by Sandra Allen and Jan Wallis.
Onlywomen Press Ltd. 38 Mount Pleasant London WC1X OAP England Telephone 837 0596 
A women's liberation publishing and printing group, set up in 1974, by a group of London feminists to develop feminist culture unhindered by patriarchal values. They publish and print feminist books, pamphlets,posters, postcards etc. Titles include - One Foot on the Mountain;ar\y of British feminist poetry 1969 - 1979 - edited by Lilian Mohin; Women and Honor - Some Notes on Lying by Adrienne Rich.
Sheba Feminist Publishers183 Swaton Road London E3 E ngland
A new feminist publishing cooperative which is about to be launched. Their publications will include: Books, pamphlets. Practical hand books, short accessible theoretical texts, experimental prose, as well as the the more traditional novel form, women cartoonist, photographers and illustrations in books, women cartoonists, photographers and illustrations in books, calendars and post-cards.
Their list for 1980 includes books like Sour Cream — a collect i on of feminist cartoons, The Ten Women Bicycle by Tricia Vita — feminist children's novel. Spare Rib Diary, and Woman and Russia.
Virago 4th Floor 5 Wardour Street London WIV 3 HE England Sales and Distribution in UK Wildwood House Ltd. 29 King Street London WC2E 8JD England. Telephone: — ( 01 ) 240 1314 836 3110 Telephone: - (01) 734 360 8/9
A feminist publishing house. Publishes books for schools, colleges and the general market on subjects w h i c h highlight all aspects o f women's lives.
They publish fiction , autobiography, theory, education, history , translations from Russian, Swedish, Italian, reprints of classic works , a series of practical handbooks. Title s include - Sexual Politics by Kate Millett , Women and Labour by Olive Schreiner, Love of Worker Bees by Alexandra Kollontai.
The Women's Press L t d . 124 Shoreditch High Street Sales Enquiry (UK) London E l 6JE England, Telephone (01) 729 5257 .
The Women's Press Sales Inquiry (UK) London E l 6JE England Telephone (01) 729 5257 Quartet Books L t d. 27 Goodge Street London W1P 1FD England. Telephone: - (01) 636 3992
The Women's Press exists " to provide a place where women's ideas and experiences, synthesized by a writer or group of writers , can be published by women equally engaged in developing those ideas".
Started in February 1978, they have t o date (June 1980) published 36 books, mainly fiction , literature and art history, health, autobiographies, politics ; also posters, post-cards and an art calendar. Titles include: - Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly; Hard feelings - fiction and poetry from Spare Rib, edited by Alison Fell; Vida by Marge Piercy. Also Starting - The Women's Press Book Club Address as above. Run on membership basis - £ 10.00 for once only member, £ 5.00 for one year, to buy 12 books. Minimum number to be purchased 4. Books published by the Women's Press and other British publishers at discount prices, (saving of 2 5 - 5 0 % ) . First mailing in September 1980.
Women in Publishing Flat 2, Menelik Road London NW2 England Telephone: - 7 9 4 9510
Group Meets on the second Monday of every month, at 7.00 pm. upstairs at the Globe Pub in London (opposite Baker Street tube station).
Membership £ 6 per year, £ 3 half year.
"Women in Publishing is a membership based group open to all women in the book trade. It aims to increase women's contribution to publishing, to facilitate the exchange of information, to provide mutual support and to improve the status of women in the profession."
BOOKSHOPS AND LIBRARIES 
Bibllofem Fawcett Library Old Castle Street London El 7NT England
Feminist Archive Orchardleigh House Shepton Mallet Somerset England.
Open by appointment only. Overnight accommodation available. User's fee XI.25. Annual subscription (includes user's fee and yearly Bulletin of accessions) : £2 - £8 depending on income; institutions £15.00. Women's groups £2; overseas subscribers add £ 1 .
The Feminist Archive is devoted to documenting the development of the women's movement. It is a collection of women's work concentrating primarily on ephemera such as leaflets and conference papers, pamphlets and periodicals. The collection also includes books and research material as well as posters, badges, photographs and other such items. Original manuscripts and work in other media together with clothing and audio-visual material are also kept. Bibliographies and other library listings as well as extensive news-cuttings complete the collection. The Feminist Archive is a prototype for regional centers and maintains national and international contacts for exchange of material and information. It welcomes accessions in any language.
Corner Bookshop Woodhouse Lane Leeds England
Sisterwrite Book Shop 190 Upper Street London N1 England Telephone (01) 226 9782
Open Tuesday to Friday 11-7, Saturday 10-6
A women's co-operative book shop. Stocks books on the women's liberation movement — History, theory, anthropology,education, fiction, literature, poetry, biography, health, sport, self-defense, non-sexist children's books and politics. Also stocks various feminist magazines and journals. Brings out a catalogue each year to facilitate mail order service. Welcomes orders from individuals, libraries, educational institutes.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Beansaor c/o Women Against Imperialism 7 Riverdale Park Drive Andersonstown Belfast N. Ireland Single copy 15 Pence.
The Newsletter focuses on the struggle of the Northern Irish Women Against British Imperialism. It covers the sexual oppression of women, and particularly women political prisoners by the state. Carries information on contraception, how to handle assault, militant poems, and other matters of concern to women.
Women's Action Belfast Women's Collective 52 Broadway Belfast BT 12 Northern Ireland
Single copy 10 Pence plus postage.
The periodical carries news on women's aid in Northern Ireland, sexual discrimination, childcare, contraception and other issues and events in the women's liberation movement.
SCOTLAND
Edinburgh Women's Liberation Newsletter Edinburgh Women's Centre 160 Fountainbridge Edinburgh 3 Scotland U. K. Telephone: - (031) 229 0053
Monthly.
Brought out by an open collective. Been in existence for 8 or 9 years. Aimed at women both inside and outside the women's liberation movement. Facilitates contact and communication between local feminists.
MS Print Ms Print Collective c/o Nina Woodcock 74 Arklay Street Dundee Scotland UK Telephone: -0382 814541
Quarterly publication 25 Pence an issue.
Produced by the MS Print Collective, set up in 1978. Aimed at women in Scotland and sympathetic men, hopes to promote debate on alt issues concerning women in Scotland. Socialist -feminist publication covering Scotland.