Women in the Service Industries in Southern Africa since 1900. Andrew Cohen (University of Kent) and Rory Pilossof (University of the Free State) There is a rich and well-developed historiography on work and labour in southern Africa. The colonial occupation…
Category: Women’s History
‘No Liberation Without Black Women’: Gender in the Black Liberation Front, by Amelia Francis
Black Power groups began to erupt throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s in Britain as young people of African, Caribbean and Asian descent unified under the term ‘Black’.[1] Furthermore, the Black Power era manifested in international solidarity between various…
Sappho to Suffrage: Women who Dared by Professor Senia Paseta
I have spent a good proportion of the last two years curating Sappho to Suffrage: Women who Dared. This exhibition in the Weston Library, at the Bodelian, Oxford, highlights items from the Bodleian’s holdings which were made, written, owned or…
WOMEN AND WRITING: THE WIFE BY MEG WOLITZER
Part 2 Women and writing Robin Joyce The Wife by Meg Wolitzer Review with no spoilers, originally published on Good Reads. Robin Joyce The Wife is an excellent novel with which to assess one’s own moral compass. As a…
BRITISH WOMEN FIGHT FOR THE VOTE IN ‘STAND WE AT LAST’ AND ‘THINGS A BRIGHT GIRL CAN DO’
Abstract of paper to be given at the Annual WHN Conference 2018. Unfortunately I was prevented approaching all the marvellous presenters of papers to be given at the WHN Annual Conference (Privacy Considerations). I appealed to presenters through the blog…
EMILY BRONTE AT 200: WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Emily Bronte at 200: Wuthering Heights has had readers going round in circles for 170 years July 25, 2018 6.42pm AEST Catherine Han Author Catherine Han Teacher, Cardiff University Disclosure statement This article is based on a talk originally…
Women’s Unpaid Work
This article first appeared in Conversation and is republished under their generous Creative Commons Licence. Women’s unpaid work must be included in GDP calculations: lessons from history June 20, 2018 10.45pm AEST Author Luke Messac, MD, PhD University of…
HOUSE OF COMMONS WWAFE SEMINAR SERIES
WWAFE 2018 House of Commons seminar series – 100 years of (some) women’s suffrage How did we get there, what have we done since & what does it mean today – A seminar series on women’s rights, challenges, perspectives, hopes and empowerment…
WOMEN AND PUBLISHING: FACTUAL ACOUNT AND A FICTIONAL REPRESENTATION
A recent novel I read, ‘The Wife’, by Meg Wolitzer, reminded me of this 2015 article. This post will be published in two parts. Part 1 is the excellent article by Marion Wynne-Davies which appears below. Part 2 will comprise…