Category: Women’s liberation
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New article on the Armagh women, the British left and women’s liberation
A quick post to announce that a new article by Brodie Nugent and myself has been published in Contemporary British History journal. It is titled, ‘Intersectional Solidarity? The Armagh Women, the British Left and Women’s Liberation’. Here is the abstract: In 1980, three Republican women prisoners held in Armagh prison in Northern Ireland joined the hunger…
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ASIO memo on Germaine Greer from 1971
I am currently putting together a work-in-progress paper on ASIO’s monitoring of the women’s liberation movement in Australia for an upcoming symposium hosted by the ANU Gender Institute, ‘How the Personal Became Political: Reassessing Australia’s Revolutions in Gender and Sexuality in the 1970s’. As part of the several ASIO on the WLM that have been…
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Appeal for primary source material on British/Irish left & female hunger strikers at Armagh 1980
Recently the Irish Times has started running a series of articles on the history of the 1980-81 hunger strikes in the lead up to a symposium being held on the subject in London in June 2016. One of the articles by Maria Power discussed the hunger strike undertaken by three republican women in Armagh Prison…
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#BlackPantherWoman: Black Power, gender and limits of transnationalism – a guest post by Jon Piccini
Once again, Jon Piccini (University of Queensland) has written a splendid piece on the recently shown documentary Black Panther Woman and I’m delighted that this blog is able to post it. Jon also wrote this piece on Anne Summers’ Damned Whores and God’s Police a few months ago. The airing of Blackfella Film’s Black Panther…
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