The book aims to introduce new issues on gender perception and representation.

Each text has been a manifesto on consciousness rising, sexual difference and female sexuality.

The text contains the brief description of the first National Women’s Roundtable Meeting.

There is no liberation of women without socialism and there is no socialism without the liberation of women.

The author reports that many older lesbians live as single, often rather unvoluntarily.

The demands and goals, methods and recent activities of the women’s peace movement are presented, both Finnish and international.

Reflections on the present situation and the possibilities of women’s emancipation.

Torajyvä was the magazine of the lesbian feminist group Akanat. This first issue includes a presentation of the group and its activities. Most texts are personal accounts of lesbian and bisexual women.