Other Campaigns

This material is held atWomen's Library Archives

  • Reference
    • GB 106 5CAP/B
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1989-1995
  • Physical Description
    • 2 A boxes

Scope and Content

CAP Campaigns included Off The Shelf (OTS), which was launched on 14 Nov 1989 in protest of WH Smith sale of 'top shelf' magazines; the licensing of sex shops; Red Hot Dutch, a hard-core pornographic satellite television channel based in Manchester; the illegal advertisement of 'Risque' and 'Lipstick' magazines by flyposting; Athena, a campaign against the sale of pornographic postcards in the High Street; and a protest against the 'Jack the Ripper' exhibit at London Dungeon (CAP members planned to picket the site on 26 Jun 1993). CAP also sponsored a Bradford University Research Project on women's experiences of pornography.