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Rape: women’s fault?
Robin Joyce Placidly reading an Agatha Christie on a day of rain and need for comfort I was swiftly disabused of that notion upon reading the following: ‘…Well we all know what rape is nowadays....
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Women also use drugs – not that you can tell from drug policy
November 28, 2017 12.30am AEDT Ian Hamilton and Niamh Eastwood Authors 1. Ian Hamilton Lecturer in mental health and addiction, University of York 2. Niamh Eastwood Visiting Lecturer, Liverpool John...
View ArticleElizabeth Reid Women’s Advisor to the Australian Government
Gough Whitlam was elected Prime Minister of Australia 2nd December 1972 and was the first Australian Prime Minister to appoint a women’s advisor. Elizabeth Reid was appointed. Following is an interview...
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Barbara Pym’s The Sweet Dove Died: Sexual Assault Assuaged By Flowers?
Barbara Pym’s The Sweet Dove Died: Sexual Assault assuaged by flowers? Robin Joyce Barbara Pym’s novels are a never-ending source of social commentary. The Sweet Dove Died , in its depiction of sexual...
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Being Published – tips for you: insights from writing Women and the Royal Navy
Jo Stanley Being published –tips for you My new history book is just out. I’ve got some insights (from this and previous books), and I now see what I should have done ages ago. So I thought it...
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Katrina Lockwood: The Mystery of Isabella an the String of Beads A Woman...
Book review by Robin Joyce Publisher: Loke Press Author: Katrina Kirkwood Sold on Amazon and at good bookstores. The back-cover blurb tells us: It was the inscription that made the antique scalpels...
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UTOPIA: THE GENIUS OF EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE
This material has been copied from the Museum of Australia site. More material is available on the site and a visit to the original is recommended. Emily Kame Kngwarreye WARNING: Relatives of the...
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Women’s Protest And Activism Seminar
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Black History Month at Cambridge Central Library
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Venezuela’s long history of racism is coming back to haunt it
Search First published in The Conversation , August 16, 2017 9.30am BST.Published here under creative commons licence. Venezuela’s long history of racism is coming back to haunt it August 16, 2017...
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HOW MICHELLE OBAMA’S VISIT TO A LONDON SCHOOL HELPED BOOST STUDENTS’ GRADES
July 1, 2016 2.53pm AEST Simon Burgess Professor of Economics, University of Bristol Disclosure statement Simon Burgess receives funding from the ESRC, the Education Endowment Foundation and the...
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ROSA MANUS
Rosa Manus This article is from an o.a. blog post from Arina Angerman. It has been lightly edited. WHN Admin. a.o. thanks editors Myriam Everard and Francisca de Haan, Atria (Institute on Gender...
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FACTS ARE NOT TRUTH: HILARY MANTEL GOES ON THE RECORD ABOUT HISTORICAL FICTION
Facts are not truth’: Hilary Mantel goes on the record about historical fiction June 13, 2017 10.54pm AEST was first published in The Conversation and is republished here under Creative Commons...
View ArticleCALL FOR PAPERS: 2018 YEARBOOK OF WOMEN’S HISTORY
Thank you to Arina Angermen for this information. WHN Admin. Call for papers for the Yearbook of Women’s History (2018) [graag verspreiden / please distribute] Building bodies: Gendered Sport and...
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Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognative skills
Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognitive skills – here’s how to understand it August 15, 2017 9.16pm AEST Magdalena Zawisza Author Magdalena Zawisza Senior Lecturer in...
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Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognitive skills
This article is republished free under Creative Commons licence. It first appeared in The Conversation. WHN Admin. Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognitive skills – here’s...
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Abstracts from presentations for the 2017 WHN Conference
Caitriona Beaumont ‘Women and the Wider World: The National Council of Women of Great Britain, female activism and the international campaign for peace, 1918 to 1939’ In 1918 the National...
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Abstracts from presentations to be given at the 2017 WHN Conference
Geraldine Perriam Women and the Wider World – Paper Proposal From London Docks to Leningrad: The Provincial Lady travels to Russia E.M. Delafield is best known for her fiction, particularly the...
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Abstracts from the papers to be presented at the 2017 WHN Conference
Some abstracts from the papers to be presented at the 2017 WHN Conference appear below. Further abstracts will be posted. Carol Coles Independent researcher What Hilda did next In this paper I...
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Women’s Work: The Book of Etiquette by Lady Troubridge
1940s typistBing Photos This excerpt is from The Book of Etiquette by Lady Troubridge (1948, First published 1926) The World’sWork (1913) Ltd, Kingswood, Surrey. Has enough changed? Chapter xxiv The...
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