Ruth Beazley has generously provided the following excerpt from her book. The layout is slightly compromised in transferring the text and photos to the blog format. WHN Admin. ‘Stansfield Grange. Home of the Triangle Mill Sisters’ This book traces the history…
Category: Women’s History
WOMEN ATHLETES ARE STILL PUT IN SECOND PLACE AT THE OLYMPICS – IT’S TIME TO SPRINT TOWARDS EQUALITY
First published in The Conversation, August 2016. Women athletes are still put in second place at the Olympics – it’s time to sprint towards equality Laura Hills Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport, Brunel University London Disclosure statement Laura Hills receives…
Historical Fiction by Women, About Women: Update
August is Women in Translation Month! August 1, 2016 Jyotsna Sreenivasan August has been designated as a month to focus on translated literature by women. In honor of Women in Translation Month, I’ve written a guest post over at For…
Few Blue Plaques, Few Statues: Where Are We? Holding Up Half The Sky? For What?
WHN Admin. Yes, women ‘hold up half the sky’ but public acknowledgements are rare. On March 2nd the paucity of blue plaques was reviewed in the WHN blog, and commentary on action to rectify the problem aired. The blue plaques dedicated…
Campaign Poverty, Women’s Equality and the Right to Vote
Bernadette Cahill will be presenting a paper at the Women’s History Network Conference. Below is the background to her paper. WHN Admin. Bernadette Cahill © 2016 For 144 years before American women won the vote, their…
Money, Politics and Equal Rights for Women
©Bernadette Cahill 2016 On October 15, 1851, Clarina Nichols – abolitionist and women’s rights and temperance advocate – told an audience of a thousand the harrowing tale of a woman who had worked hard all her life and…
Why Charlotte Brontë still speaks to us – 200 years after her birth
Vanessa Smith Professor of English, University of Sydney Jane Eyre has been retold over and over again, but remains eternally relevant. Jane Eyre (2011), Focus Features What is it that makes generation after generation respond to Charlotte Brontë’s…
The Creation of Radclyffe Hall
Gill Rossini In July 1928, author Radclyffe Hall published her now iconic novel The Well of Loneliness. It was a brave, some said foolhardy attempt to sway public opinion in favour of a sympathetic attitude towards homosexuality in Britain and…
Catherine was the original breaker of the glass ceiling
WHN Admin. Shelley Emling, a senior editor at The Huffington Post, has provided the following questions and responses that highlight some of the issues associated with her biography of Catherine of Siena. Catherine went years without eating scarcely anything. Today, many would say she…