Call for Papers: Women Encountering Emancipation and Adversity within the 20th Century 14th March 2022 Abstract deadline 15th December 2021 The University of Chichester is hosting an online interdisciplinary Humanities conference on the 14th March 2022. The conference is focusing…
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‘Witty above her sex’: Restoring Shakespeare’s Women to the Record
This weekend, over 400 years ago, Anne Hathaway married William Shakespeare. This year, at last, Anne and her daughters Susanna and Judith were given their proper place in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. In the late nineteenth century, Virginia Woolf’s…
Disability, Dance, and an Oppressive Mobilisation of Looking, by Georgia Gardner
I have been careful to also engage with disabled scholars whose experiences of disablism differ from my own, recognising the diversity within the disabled community. The patriarchal conditions of classical ballet illustrate the convergence of the male and clinical gazes,…
Reimagining Women’s Sexual Agency in Eighteenth-Century Presbyterian Ireland, by Frances Norman
On 1 December 1710 Sarah Campbell and the married John Wilson appeared before the Presbyterian Kirk Session of Carnmoney, county Antrim, acknowledging their guilt of adultery and desiring baptism for their child. After rebuking the pair for the offence caused,…
Independent Miss Craigie
A new feature documentary, Independent Miss Craigie, whichtells the story of one of the UK’s first women film directors) will have its cinema premiere at the Arts Cinema, Plymouth on Friday 19 November at 6.30. Jill Craigie, (1911 – 99)…
Friends of the Women’s Library: Change of Programme
The Friends of the Women’s Library regret that the talk on Clara Rackham on 17 November has had to be postponed. Mary Joannou is unwell, but it is not serious. The talk will be rescheduled in 2022. Mary would like…
Radical Jewish Women: Nina Salaman (1877-1925)
Jewish Museum London is proud to be collaborating with the Women’s History Network on a Radical Women series, focusing on the lives of Jewish women who have made a significant impact, not only within the Jewish Community in Britain, but…
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World: The Musical
By Kathrina Perry Interview with Frances Mayli McCann Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World is a new musical based on the book by Kate Pankhurst, a descendant of Emmeline Pankhurst, adapted by Chris Bush (Nine Lessons and Carols, Almeida…
‘The World through a Woman’s Eyes’: Jessie Ackermann and women’s mental mapping at the turn of the twentieth century
When first introduced to the concept of historical mental mapping, which aims to reconstruct shifting spatial imaginaries of continents and countries, I was struck by the overwhelming dominance of men’s accounts as source material. Was it fair to assume that women throughout history perceived the arrangement of the world’s spaces – countries, continents, regions and borders – in the same way as their male counterparts?