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Choicework is a participatory patchwork piece celebrating and increasing awareness of the worldwide growing pro-choice movement. In this series of workshops held at the Feminist Library, you can learn new craft skills whilst participating in the project and engaging …
Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation, by Sarah Irving (Pluto Press 2012) Review by Tali Janner-Klausner, lilithlaughed.co.uk/?p=126 The photograph that featured under many headlines after the 1969 hijacking. The ring on her finger is made of a grenade pin and …
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Live Through This, by Sabrina Chap (Seven Stories Press, 2012) This book is an edited collection of pieces by women artists, describing their creative journeys, with images of art work and memoirs of emotional experiences – including whilst writing this …
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The Fun Kind: Feminist Fictions, by Elizabeth Carola (Siren Press, 2012) This collection of short stories by radical feminist Elizabeth Carola is an easy and enjoyable read. Although fiction, the characters and scenarios described are recognisable and will feel familiar …
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How much of our food is produced by women workers? Are mothers going hungry to feed their kids in austerity Britain? Want to know how to grow your own, or set up a community kitchen? Come to the Feminist Library …
Revolutionary Women: A book of stencils edited by Queen of the Neighbourhood, (PM Press, 2010). This is a book of stencils of the faces of some amazing activist women, accompanied by short stories of the life of each one. The …
Class and Gender in British Labour History: Renewing the Debate (or starting it?)Edited by Mary Davis (Merlin Press, 2011) “Historians have a lot to answer for: our knowledge of the past is filtered through their collective lens” (Mary Davis, p14) …
This month the London Student Feminist Network presents the Student Feminist Conference 2013, which will take place at the University of London Union on the weekend of the 23rd and 24th February. Organised by grassroots activists from an array of …
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Recordings made by Yula Burin and participants of the Women’s Studies Without Walls inaugural event on the 19th and 20th of January 2013 Big thanks to Camden Community Radio for hosting these podcasts. On consciousness raising: http://canstream.co.uk/camden/index.php?id=497 How the event …
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The New Maids: Transnational Women and the Care Economy, by Helma Lutz (Zed Books, 2011). In her book, Helma Lutz provides a thorough investigation of the broad spectrum surrounding the issue of migrant domestic labour. While illuminating the various aspects …
