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Women's History Network

For anyone with a passion for women’s history

Women’s History Network is an inclusive organisation that celebrates diversity

Author: Dr Robin Joyce

Blog, Politics, Women's History

Margaret Attwood The Handmaid’s Tale

Dr Robin Joyce / March 8, 2018

Guide to the Classics: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale April 13, 2017 6.12am AEST       Author Linda Wight Senior Lecturer, Literature and Screen Studies, Federation University Australia Disclosure statement Linda Wight does not work for, consult, own shares in…

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

Virago Great Feminist Quotes – A [Belated]Christmas Gift [for Women’s History Month, instead]…cont.

Dr Robin Joyce / March 7, 2018
Blog, Politics, Women's History

Virago Great Feminist Quotes – A [Belated]Christmas Gift [for Women’s History Month, instead]…cont.

Dr Robin Joyce / March 6, 2018
Blog, Politics, Women's History

#MeToo, Sleeping Beauty and the often controversial history of fairy tales

Dr Robin Joyce / March 4, 2018

First published in The Conversation and republished here under The Conversation’s generous copyright policy. January 17, 2018 8.11pm AEDT   It’s one of the more bizarre episodes to have seen the light of day since the #MeToo movement got going…

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

Virago Great Feminist Quotes – A [Belated]Christmas Gift [for Women’s History Month, instead]…cont.

Dr Robin Joyce / March 3, 2018
Blog, Politics, Women's History

Virago Great Feminist Quotes – A [Belated]Christmas Gift [for Women’s History Month, instead]…cont.

Dr Robin Joyce / March 2, 2018
Blog, Politics, Women's History

Virago Great Feminist Quotes – A [Belated]Christmas Gift [for Women’s History Month, instead]…cont.

Dr Robin Joyce / March 1, 2018
Blog, Politics

Are LGBT Youth Compromised by Concerns about their Powerlessness?

Dr Robin Joyce / February 28, 2018

First published in the ANU Gender Institute newsletter. WHN Admin. The advertisement below is for an Australian book launch which will have little relevance to most readers. However, I thought it was worth publishing in this important month in the…

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Blog, Event

LGBT Month: BFI Events 21st March – 21st April

Dr Robin Joyce / February 25, 2018

The BFI is marking 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales – with screenings and events at BFI Southbank, on BFI Player and around the UK.   Graphic reproduced from the BFI advertisement on line, accessed…

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The Women’s History Network is a national association and charity for the promotion of women’s history and the encouragement of everyone interested in women’s history. Following our establishment in 1991 we have grown year by year and today we are a UK national charity with members including working historians, researchers, independent scholars, teachers, librarians, and many other individuals both within academia and beyond. Indeed, the network reaches out to anyone...

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