Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival (Aug 1-2) & Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Aug 18-23) electric voice theatre presents a cascade of fascinating dramatic works by some of the UK’s leading female composers inspired by the lives and works of significant…
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Do We Need Feminism? I think I’m going to cry …
Victoria Browne made the case for celebrating even the smallest of victories as a way of not losing heart and staying engaged. Afterwards, Victoria and Fiona were joined by Louise MacKenzie and Judith Hunter from Glasgow City Council Equality Network, Kate Reid, Louise Sheridan and Valerie Wright, for a roundtable which lead to a surprisingly personal discussion about the challenges faced by women today – especially when trying to bring up children, and girls in particular, in a culture of intense sexualisation of women …
Love Letters: Call for Participation
Thursday 21st January – Saturday 23rd January 2016 London, United Kingdom What is and does a love letter? Are there any essential elements, or do the defining characteristics of amorous correspondence change from generation to generation, and from one culture…
Black & Asian women’s history: enslaved women on ships
‘A slave is a human being classed as property and who is forced to work for nothing. An enslaved person is a human being who is made to be a slave. This language is often used instead of the word slave, to refer to the person and their experiences and to avoid the use of dehumanising language’ … But in internet searches using the search term, ‘enslaved women’ not ‘slave’ doesn’t bring anything like as many hits.
Dramatic stories of … enslaved women on ships reveal something about the realities of the long cooped-up and traumatic voyages and gendered relations ….
Women’s History Summer 2015
Download the PDF edition of this journal here. Purchase this journal as a hard copy here. Special issue on ‘New Perspectives on Women and the Great War’. Contents Maggie Andrews on Rethinking the significance of the ‘Home’ in the West…
Making Changes by Making History: Women in Construction
… construction projects have seen women taking on more senior roles like that of architect Nicole Dosso, Technical Director of the construction project known as One World Trade Centre. Dosso was the single senior technical coordinator representing Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) on the day-to-day execution of the job. For all intents and purposes it could be said that a woman built the tallest tower in North America. For her contribution to the rebuilding of the World Trade Centre site, Nicole Dosso was honoured by the US National Association of Professional Women in Construction in 2006.
British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century. Edited by Teresa Barnard
Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection shows that long eighteenth-century women usurped subjects perceived as masculine to contribute to scientific, political, philosophical and theological debate and progress. This volume…
New one-woman play about EGLANTYNE JEBB
EGLANTYNE, a new one woman play exploring the inspiring life of Eglantyne Jebb, a courageous, charming, passionate, humanitarian, human rights activist and founder of Save the Children, launched at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn on 11 June and is now touring in the…
Women’s Poetry in the Great War
Friday 3 July, 6 – 8pm Royal College of Nursing, London W1 In 1918, volunteer nurse (VAD) Alberta Vickridge entered a poetry competition for men and women on war service. Her poem, ‘Out of the Conflict’ won the competition. The consolation…