My mother, Rosalind Delmar, who has died aged 82, was a feminist writer, educator and activist, prominent in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the women’s movement of the 1960s and 70s.
She attended the inaugural Women’s Liberation conference in Oxford in 1970, organised women’s groups throughout London and conferences nationally, edited radical magazines, and helped set up the women’s publisher Virago. She contributed to the first women’s studies course for the Open University, launched in 1983, after teaching a similar course at City University in the mid-70s – without institutional imprimatur – in the students’ union. She also taught at the University of Sussex Centre for Continuing Education, and was a guest lecturer in women’s studies at Cambridge and Brunel universities.
