The Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community

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Women’s history appeared for the first time at Ruskin History Workshop in November 1969. An academic meeting on women’s history was proposed but instead it was decided to hold a more general meeting on the challenges facing women. This was planned for February 1970.

Anna Davin’sarchive contains papers from the first national WLM conference which was held in Ruskin College, Oxford, in 1970.Burton, M. & Kagan, C. (2005). Liberation social psychology: Learning from Latin America. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 15, 63–78. Chang Hee's admiration for Mr. Gu, the way he looked upto him, him calling 'hyung' and was able to extract out inspiration from Gu's life, was quite an intrigue. Even with no definite bromance, MLN showcased a meaningful non-romantic bonding between two men, who despite of their personal conflicts, were able to unbar the ways to relief & salvation. I can go on about how I felt looking at Chang Hee's eyes & emotions for Gu-shi multiple times. You might want to think about the meaning of life. About goals that you would like to set for yourself. What is life? What does it offer me? What would I actually like to do? Or, wait a minute, is it better not to think at all? It is up to the young people of the recent and the following working generation, to grope, to stumble, to develop new, visionary as well as down to earth attitudes and inspiring blueprints to life in a South Korea from the 2020s onwards...

Portillo, N. (2012). The life of Ignacio Martín-Baró. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 18(1), 77–87. Freire, P. (1972). Pedagogy of the oppressed. (M.B. Ramos, Trans.) New York: Herder and Herder. (Original work published 1968) Part of our innate shame is likely to manifest itself in an inner austerity. It might always feel better to sidestep pleasure but we might, in the name of mental health, throw the habit of a lifetime away and sometimes, without guilt, simply daydream for a few hours, buy ourselves an expensive piece of clothing (preferably in a bold colour) or step into a bakery and ask for a large slice of blueberry cake or a Portuguese custard tart (or two). City and country clash, almost every day. Accordingly, different life plans collide, which either fit more into a fast-paced, hip city life or rather into a rural, decelerated provincial life. In reality, however, new hybrid variants are needed that function as a flexible joint between both realities that are equally relevant to everyday life - city and country. One of the many moving elements in the drama was Mi Jung's desire to be able to reminisce about past where she herself is be-seated by her younger self's side, enjoying the views she really loved and Mr. Gu suggests her to remember the very moment and remind it when she turns old, because by then, the present time would be her younger version. Similarly, I would like to mention few of short yet relatable and favourite dialogues which aren't actually spoilers...In short: The lives of young people in their prime (+/- 30) are at stake here. Considering their groaning under the pressure of the competition in the workplace, the dazzling promises of the modern lifestyle industry, and the claims of society and family traditions, this could all be pretty depressing. But amazingly, it's not. The protagonists manage to give their lives something like dignity - quietly, impressively and with gentle intensity. They walk the way that lies before them, spraying their personal touch, a little bit, but nicely, thus leaving color and warmth on their trail. Galeano, E. (2009). Open veins of Latin America: Five centuries of the pillage of a continent. London: Serpent’s Tail. (Original work published 1971)

Liem, R. (1995). Psychology under fire. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 1(4), 441–444. CEDAWThe Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1979. These are just highlights from the Women's Library collection on the topic of women's liberation movement. You can search the Archives Catalogue to find more material using terms like "women's liberation movement", "sexism", "equal opportunity", "sex discrimination", "health". To narrow down your search, type '1970s' into the date field. You can search Library Search for journal titles, such as Red Rag, Shrew, WIRES, Outwrite, the London Women's Liberation Newsletter. How to access Jointly produced by 'Studio Phoenix', 'Chorokbaem Media' and SLL, "My Liberation Notes (나의 해방일지) [2022]" is a 8 billion won budgeted slice-of-life Kdrama. Reuniting writer Park Hae Young and director Kim Seok Yoon after 11 years, the show was broadcasted on JTBC and internationally distributed by Netflix. Duran, E. & Duran, B. (1995). Native American postcolonial psychology. New York: State University of New York Press.In this article – part of a larger project to trace the historical development of liberation psychology – I aimed to give readers a sense for two things. Firstly, how liberation psychology’s development has continued since Martín-Baró’s death. And secondly, how attention to such narratives strengthens the argument that psychology can and ought to concern itself with the pressing social and political concerns of our time. It is these histories that set the stage upon which our personal and relational experience depends. Sensitivity to the political and social context may result in a psychology that challenges the status quo. The scholars above each unabashedly champion the cause of social justice – both human and ecological – and equality; doing so through a liberation psychology that bridges the gap between the personal and the political. Burton, M. & Kagan, C. (2009). Towards a really social psychology: Liberation psychology beyond Latin America. In M. Montero & C. Sonn (Eds.) Psychology of liberation: Theory and applications (pp.51–72). New York: Springer. All upcoming public events are going ahead as planned and you can find more information on our events blog Before I sign off, I would have loved to talk about "my liberation diary" and the "haebang (liberation) club", the most motivating idea of the drama that puts Mi Jung at the centre, but I truly want all of you, reading this, to witness and experience it by your own. Moane, G. (2011). Gender and colonialism: A psychological analysis of oppression and liberation (2nd edn). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

The Women’s Liberation Movement began as a network of local groups communicating its message through its newsletters. Members also attended national conferences which allowed discussion of issues and strategy. The first major Nazi camp to be liberated was Majdanek, located in Lublin, Poland. It was liberated in the summer of 1944 as Soviet forces advanced westward. The previous spring, the SS had evacuated most of the Majdanek prisoners and camp personnel. The evacuated prisoners were sent to concentration camps further west, such as Gross-Rosen, Auschwitz, and Mauthausen. As the Soviet troops approached Majdanek at the end of July, the remaining camp personnel hastily abandoned the Majdanek concentration camp without fully dismantling it. The campaign for 'free contraception and abortion on demand' was one of the four main demands agreed at the first national conference in 1970. When Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minster in 1979, only 19 women MPs were elected out of 635 members. Lesley Abdela founded The 300 Groupto encourage more women to stand as MPs and to work in public life. Suffrage 18 is a series of posts to mark the 2018 centenary of the first votes for women, sharing stories from The Women’s Library about the campaign for women’s suffrage.

liberation theology, religious movement arising in late 20th-century Roman Catholicism and centred in Latin America. It sought to apply religious faith by aiding the poor and oppressed through involvement in political and civic affairs. It stressed both heightened awareness of the “sinful” socioeconomic structures that caused social inequities and active participation in changing those structures. Animal Liberation Now will motivate a new generation of readers who are resolutely committed to creating a just society for all' Joaquin Phoenix