December 2023
Like many men today I have become aware of a new momentum in the women’s liberation movement - nothing short of a global revolution. My own mother, married, as she was to a disabled and controlling man, my father, died prematurely in her early sixties. Amidst my grief was a mystifying but clear sense of relief, which I rationalised at the time was my response to her “escape” from a life which had left her depressed for years and which I felt I was powerless to do anything about.