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Blog, Politics, Women's History

Few Blue Plaques, Few Statues: Where Are We? Holding Up Half The Sky? For What?

Dr Robin Joyce / July 31, 2016

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…

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

Campaign Poverty, Women’s Equality and the Right to Vote

Dr Robin Joyce / July 24, 2016

      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…

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Biography, Blog, Politics, Women's History

Money, Politics and Equal Rights for Women

Dr Robin Joyce / July 3, 2016

  ©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…

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Blog, Event

Abstracts: Papers to be presented at the 2016 WHN Conference

Dr Robin Joyce / June 26, 2016

  WHN Admin. The abstracts following, by Cheryl Butler and Ali Flint, provide a ‘taste’ of the papers that will be presented at the conference. Cheryl Butler and Ali Flint’s generosity in providing the abstracts for the blog is greatly appreciated.…

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Blog, Women's History

Why Charlotte Brontë still speaks to us – 200 years after her birth

Dr Robin Joyce / June 12, 2016

  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…

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Biography, Blog, Women's History

The Creation of Radclyffe Hall

Dr Robin Joyce / June 5, 2016

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…

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Biography, Blog, Women's History

Catherine was the original breaker of the glass ceiling

Dr Robin Joyce / May 31, 2016

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…

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Biography, Blog, Women's History

Catherine was the original breaker of the glass ceiling

Dr Robin Joyce / May 29, 2016

WHN Admin. Part 2 of Setting the World on Fire provides a brief insight into Catherine’s spiritual initiation, unfortunately the material which puts this into the context of the spiritual history of the time and the Catholic church has had to…

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Biography, Blog, Women's History

Catherine was the original breaker of the glass ceiling

Dr Robin Joyce / May 22, 2016

  WHN Administration The title and following quotes and excerpts from Chapter 2 (to be published as Part 2) are from Setting the World on Fire The brief astonishing life of Catherine of Siena by Shelley Embling.   Part 1…

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