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Blog, Politics, Women's History

#MeToo, Sleeping Beauty and the often controversial history of fairy tales

Dr Robin Joyce / March 4, 2018

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…

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

Women: Publishing; writing; and as characters

Dr Robin Joyce / January 14, 2018

Some of Virago’s Christmas present quotes have preceded this post.  The remainder will appear in March, Women’s History Month, where longer posts are to be supplemented by short comments and quotes. This pattern allows full publicity to the in depth…

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Blog, Women's History

Rachel Heyhoe-Flint blazed a trail for women’s cricket, but change comes slowly to the ‘gentleman’s game’

Dr Robin Joyce / March 19, 2017

Rachael Heyhoe-Flint blazed a trail for women’s cricket, but change comes slowly to the ‘gentleman’s game’ January 21, 2017 7.23pm AEDT Alun Hardman Author Alun Hardman Senior Lecturer in Sports Ethics, Cardiff Metropolitan University Disclosure statement Alun Hardman does not work…

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2016: a very bad year for women

Dr Robin Joyce / January 8, 2017

 Originally published in The Conversation, December 23, 2016 8.35 pm AEDT 2016: a very bad year for women   Author Julie Gottlieb Reader in Modern History, University of Sheffield Disclosure statement Julie Gottlieb does not work for, consult, own shares in…

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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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The Women’s History Network is a national association and charity for the promotion of women’s history and the encouragement of everyone interested in women’s history. Following our establishment in 1991 we have grown year by year and today we are a UK national charity with members including working historians, researchers, independent scholars, teachers, librarians, and many other individuals both within academia and beyond. Indeed, the network reaches out to anyone...

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