Virago: Changing The World One Page at a Time (2016)
Overview
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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| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 1.361 |
Directed By
Claire Whalley
Crew
Claire Whalley
TOP CAST
Carmen Callil
Herself
Ursula Owen
Herself
Harriet Spicer
Herself
Lennie Goodings
Herself
Alexandra Pringle
Herself
Sarah Waters
Herself
Jon Snow
Himself
Jo Brand
Herself - Narrator (voice only)
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