November 28, 2017 12.30am AEDT Ian Hamilton and Niamh Eastwood Authors
Category: Blog and News
News items of interest to WHN Members
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…
Women in International Exhibitions 1876-1937, Routledge 2017, by Myriam Boussahba-Bravard & Rebecca Rogers (ed.)
Myriam Boussahba-Bravard & Rebecca Rogers (ed.), Women in International and Universal Exhibitions, 1876-1937, New York, Routledge, 2018: ISBN 9781138636057 ( hardcopy) ISBN 9781315196534 (electronic version) This book argues for the importance of bringing women and gender more directly into the dynamic field of exposition studies. Reclaiming…
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…
Women’s naval lives
Women and the Royal Navy (IB Tauris/NMRN) by Jo Stanley. Out Nov 2017. Focused on gender, mobility, and the long struggle for equal rights to sail and be combatant, this is a new approach to naval historiography. It shows all…
Women’s Protest And Activism Seminar
Women’s Protest And Activism Seminar Fri 10 Nov 2017 10.30am – 4.30pm | 18+ Price: £10 Location: mac birmingham, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH Sales & Information: 0121 446 3232 Booking Info: https://macbirmingham.co.uk/event/womens-protest-and-activism-seminar In response to the…