Join us for the second seminar of our Spring Series, featuring Dr Mytheli Sreenivas, with the paper titled: ‘Heterosexuality and the “Happy Family”: Desire, Development, and Population Control in India, 1930s-1970s’ Wednesday 26th January 2022 at 4pm GMT Register for…
Tag: women’s rights
MUSIC VIDEO FOR CHANGE: “WOMAN”
Claire and Sarah Renee O’Moore Claire O’Moore sent the following, explaining the video which she and her twin sister, Sarah Renee, created to publicise women’s rights. Hi There, I’m sending you a music video that deals exclusively with women’s rights.…
WOMEN, LAW AND CULTURE Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict
Part 3 of the excerpt from Jocelynne A. Scutt’s Women, Law and Culture covers parts 2 and 3 of the contributions to the book. WHN Admin PART II – SPACE & PLACE Karen Buczynski-Lee addresses this question in culture and…
Women, Law and Culture Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict
Part 2 This excerpt repeats a small section of the introductory comments, before concentrating on the detailed information about the contributions in Women, Law and Culture edited by Jocelynne A. Scutt. The linking paragraphs and explanatory material introducing the sections appeared…
Women, Law and Culture Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict
Part 1 This excerpt from the introduction of Jocelynne A. Scutt’s Women, Law and Culture Conformity Contradiction and Conflict has been heavily edited to meet, as far as possible, blog word count requirements. While the interconnecting pieces remain, description of…
’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes
‘I would advise no woman to give up anything she has managed to win. I would advise every woman to work as she can, and gain what she can, and keep it. No woman should be made to surrender her…
Stand We At Last
Stand We At Last Zoe Fairbairns The following excerpts are published with the permission of Zoe Fairbairns. They provide an insight into the two sisters’ different approach to life. In particular, their expectations of men, marriage and spinsterhood and their…
Campaign Poverty, Women’s Equality and the Right to Vote
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…
Money, Politics and Equal Rights for Women
©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…