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News items of interest to WHN Members
#MeToo, Sleeping Beauty and the often controversial history of fairy tales
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…
Are LGBT Youth Compromised by Concerns about their Powerlessness?
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…
LGBT Month: BFI Events 21st March – 21st April
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…
LABOR WOMEN: POLITICAL HOUSEKEEPERS OR POLITICIANS?
Part 3 Women in trade unions in Western Australia in the early 1900s This paper is a section of an article published in Marian Simms, Australian Women and the Political System , Longman Cheshire, 1984. Robin Joyce An apprenticeship…