'Working for Change in the Position of Women in the Church': Christian Women's Information and Resources (CWIRES) and the British Christian Women's Movement, 1972-1990

@article{Daggers2001WorkingFC,
  title={'Working for Change in the Position of Women in the Church': Christian Women's Information and Resources (CWIRES) and the British Christian Women's Movement, 1972-1990},
  author={Jenny Daggers},
  journal={Feminist Theology},
  year={2001},
  volume={9},
  pages={44 - 69}
}
  • J. Daggers
  • Published 1 January 2001
  • History
  • Feminist Theology
In 1992 the Christian Women’s Information and Resources (CWIRES) project, which had been based in Oxford from 1979, finally closed its doors. Assembled during the CWIRES period as a resource for Christian women, the resulting archive of books and papers provides a mine of information concerning the life of a movement among Christian women, which gathered momentum from the early 1970s. In this article I analyse the developing concerns, structures and activities of the Christian women’s groups… 
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