If you're interested in how early 2nd wave feminists used the printed medium to elaborate and discuss feminist thinking, this recording of a superb talk by Dr Bec Wonders is well worth watching. https://youtu.be/vRsAWPoLLcw … [Read more...]
FROM THE FAN ARCHIVE
Sylvia Plath is buried in Hepstonstall, West Yorkshire. Her gravestone named her Sylvia Plath Hughes. She and her husband, Ted Hughes, had separated seven months before her suicide, and many feminists saw this naming as a posthumous patriarchal claim, believing that she should have been buried under her own published name. So a tradition grew of removing the lead letters … [Read more...]
Closure of Special Collections Research Centre
The reading room at Special Collections, where researchers view FAN documents and materials, will be closed from Thursday 14 April to Tuesday 10 May. This is because of a major reorganisation project of the backroom collections storage area. Unfortunately this means that FAN collections will be unavailable during this time. It is still possible to book a visit from 10 May by … [Read more...]
Stand Against Sexual Exploitation: Leeds event
Friday 13 May 2022, 6.30-8pm, central Leeds venue Join feminist campaigners, survivors and authors at a meeting to celebrate the launch of a work of feminist survivor literature. Author Mia Doring will read from ‘Any Girl’ and deliver a presentation about the ideas and politics she puts forward in her book. She will be joined by feminist campaigners Councillor Sarah Field … [Read more...]
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!
Happy International Women's Day to all women - and especially to those working to protect women's rights. We've been archiving second wave feminist activism and politics since the 1970s and today it's needed more than ever. … [Read more...]