Category: Women’s History
Virago Great Feminist Quotes – A Christmas Gift
Great Feminist Quotes to Inspire You this Christmas As a little gift from Virago to you this yuletide, we wanted to send you all cards . . . not your traditional Christmas card, we’ll admit, but some of…
Rape: women’s fault?
By Robin Joyce Placidly reading an Agatha Christie on a day of rain and need for comfort I was swiftly disabused of that notion upon reading the following: ‘…Well we all know what rape is nowadays. Mum tells the girl…
Elizabeth Reid Women’s Advisor to the Australian Government
Gough Whitlam was elected Prime Minister of Australia 2nd December 1972 and was the first Australian Prime Minister to appoint a women’s advisor. Elizabeth Reid was appointed. Following is an interview with her conducted by Emma Renwick. http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/act/content/2005/ The Life…
Barbara Pym’s The Sweet Dove Died: Sexual Assault Assuaged By Flowers?
Barbara Pym’s The Sweet Dove Died: Sexual Assault assuaged by flowers? Robin Joyce Barbara Pym’s novels are a never-ending source of social commentary. The Sweet Dove Died , in its depiction of sexual assault is of particular interest at the…
Being Published – tips for you: insights from writing Women and the Royal Navy
Jo Stanley Being published –tips for you My new history book is just out. I’ve got some insights (from this and previous books), and I now see what I should have done ages ago. So I thought…
Katrina Lockwood: The Mystery of Isabella an the String of Beads A Woman Doctor In World War 1
Book review by Robin Joyce Publisher: Loke Press Author: Katrina Kirkwood Sold on Amazon and at good bookstores. The back-cover blurb tells us: It was the inscription that made the antique scalpels so tantalising: ‘Isabella Stenhouse’. A woman doctor? A…