1. Title: The Queen’s House queens Date: Monday 2nd March Time: 1pm Location: The Queen’s House Price: Free Description: Join our curator, Katy Barrett on a tour of the Queen’s House. Commissioned in 1616 by…
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History of Voluntary Action Conference
Teaching the History of Voluntary Action: National, International and Transnational Perspectives Saturday 28th February 2015 Queen Mary University of London, 10am-4.30pm In September 2013, a group of historians with common interests in voluntary action history came together at a…
International Federation for Research into Women’s History
Newsletter 57, December 2014, now published. IFRWH57Dec2014
Who Was Miss Hooper?
Miss Hooper makes an intriguing sight, wrapped up against the elements. You can’t see her face, but this isn’t the only source of mystery – there is also wonder about what she’s doing out there in the hills and how she can even survive, seemingly against the odds. A woman alone in the bitter cold, she seems almost to be a relic from the past.
Women’s History Autumn 2014
Download the PDF edition of this journal here. Military Women Special Issue. Contents Wendy Toon on Women and the military, 4 Lucy Noakes on Women in the British army in the post-war years, 5 Corinna Peniston-Bird on British auxiliaries and their weapons in the Second World…
UNRELENTING BACKLASH – Depoliticising Male Violence Against Women: Part 3
The situation concerning pandemic male violence against women and girls is dire because men’s backlash against women has been ongoing for more than two decades. Not only has male violence against women been successfully depoliticised individualism is now dominant wherein men claim that women and men are symmetrically situated and women magically have limitless choices and agency. Each act of male violence against women supposedly happens because the woman made a wrong choice or failed to enact her agency! This ensures the focus is on individual women rather than how society operates whereby male created institutions and structures remain in place and maintain male domination over women.
UNRELENTING BACKLASH – Depoliticising Male Violence Against Women: Part 2
One of the central tenets arising from the Women’s Movement in the 1970’s was naming men as those responsible for committing violence against women because feminists recognised that not naming the perpetrators ensures society’s focus is on scrutinising women and blaming them for supposedly provoking or causing male violence against them. Naming men as the agents responsible directly challenges male power over women …
UNRELENTING BACKLASH – Depoliticising Male Violence Against Women: Part 1
The term “gender based violence against women” does not inform the reader who is responsible for committing violence against women. “Gender” is a descriptive term not a human entity. “Gender” cannot commit violence against women so who is being protected by not being named? Perhaps it is women because “gender” is commonly perceived as attributable to women since men have always claimed male as the default generic human and hence no need to name men/males as men/males. Obviously the entities being protected are men because naming men/males as the perpetrators will immediately instigate a male backlash of claims “you are demonising men” or “not all men are violent!”
International Women’s Day: Women in Peace and Conflict conference
4th March 2015 at Liverpool Hope University Women in Peace and Conflict 2015, organised to celebrate International Women’s Day will bring together established academics, practitioners and postgraduate students with a view to identifying the historical and contemporary involvement of women in…