Reposted by Katie Holmes
A fascinating paper from @runyoung50.bsky.social about women asserting their right to run long distances in the 1970s.
As with women cricketers, they were clearly impacted by second-wave feminism but mostly denied an explicitly “feminist” identity.
![Women's voices
"You just wanted to prove you could do it and that was the end of it." -
Bridget Cushen
"I'm not political in that way. But I just felt...girls should have the chance to do these things. Of course, women can do these things." - Avril Lewis (née Jones)
"... whether or not we identified in that way, we were part of it /the Women's Liberation Movement], because that was the ethos of the age... Whether or not we were...consciously thinking, we're kind of liberated...actually we were, and we were thrilled by it." - Sandra
Brown](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qefnz7gxtoazw436ylnafygh/bafkreiduwur3kyzmce2xdzwxc5jfmyokk36b5uxiih534fq5jkrtkzsode)
