Eva Figes, the author of Patriarchal Attitudes, died aged 80 in August 2012. Her book was published to popular British acclaim alongside several other signature books of women’s liberation, including The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer andContinue reading
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An Update: The Women’s Library
This is to report on what is happening to The Women’s Library, a resource that was set up over 75 years ago as the Fawcett Library in central London. It moved to premises in theContinue reading
‘Keeping it Real’: teenage girls and everyday feminism
It is an overcast Friday in mid-October as the Cardiff University contingent (that’s us!) pull up outside a rated-but-dated business hotel in Newport; we are attending the #KeepingItReal conference for teenage girls, run by theContinue reading
Ester McGeeney on ‘Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The Riots One Year On’
A Conference Report for GEA At the end of last month I started my week with a colleague from Sussex University, a few of our new masters students and a trip to the CLF theatreContinue reading
David Maguire on ‘Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The Riots One Year On’
A Conference Report for GEA The working title for my research is: ‘Learning to Serve Time: troubling Spaces of Working Class Masculinity in the U.K’. It aims to explore, through the in-depth study of aContinue reading
Sarah Burton on ‘Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The Riots One Year On’
A Conference Report for GEA Recently I had the pleasure of attending Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects:The London Riots one year on. The riots in August 2012 came just as I was preparing to beginContinue reading
Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The Riots One Year On
A Conference Report for GEA Over the past year, academics have brought critical perspectives to bear on the complex causes and consequences of the English riots of 2011. Important questions have been raised about theContinue reading
Care, the elephant in the (class)room?
Historically, in the UK and other European countries, the figures of the learner and the scholar have been associated with being care-free (i.e. with having no primary responsibility for dependents). These days, universities have considerablyContinue reading
“Take a Walk in My Shoes”
When we think about the term ‘gender equality’, we tend to think about the oppression, violence and discrimination against girls and women. We think of boys and men as the oppressors who create the problemsContinue reading
Watching A Wedding: Private-Publics
I came to a stop in my tracks. I stood and stared as I began to watch a wedding; a deliberately public event announcing itself, lakeside, on a bright – but still cold – winterContinue reading
