A two-day interdisciplinary conference on revolution and the revolutionary in politics and culture from 1968 to the present from an explicitly gendered perspective is being held at the University of York in May 2018. Some of the questions the conference will seek to address are: How has gender, as it intersects with categories such as race, ethnicity, class and … [Read more...]
Leeds Suffrage Stories
In June this year historian Dr Jill Liddington, who has written a number of books about the suffragette movement, gave a talk about three votes for women campaigners from Leeds – Isabella Ford, Mary Gawthorpe and Leonora Cohen. She was speaking at an event to mark the centenary of the Leeds Convention of June 1917, where 3,500 democrats and socialists hailed the Russian … [Read more...]
The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth
The speaker at the Sheffield Feminist Network's Annual Book Reading is Julie Bindel, author, journalist and activist. Julie, who has long campaigned against global violence affecting women and girls, will be speaking about her new book The Pimping of Prostitution, which examines the arguments and controversies about the prostitution debate. Drawing on 250 interviews and other … [Read more...]
Queens of Industry: a new exhibition at Leeds Industrial Museum
Queens of Industry is a groundbreaking exhibition that charts the stories of the women who were elected to represent some of Britain’s greatest industries. This largely untold story brings together the experiences of a group of young women in industry, many of whose lives were changed forever by becoming industry queens. The exhibition will feature rarely seen objects from … [Read more...]
Website glitch
Apologies from all of us here at the Feminist Archive North for the recent double postings. It was due to a website issue which we now hope is resolved. … [Read more...]