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Purpose and Profit in the Feminist Book Trade with Jane Cholmeley & Lesley Wood

Join us for a special project event, with The Feminist Bookshop, 48 Upper North Street, Brighton, BN1 3FH Saturday 9 March 2024 7.30-9.00pm “A woman must have a money and a room of her own if she is to write

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Feminist Book Fortnight 2022 launches with publication of Feminist Book Fortnight: A Short History

At Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 A new history of a pioneering feminist book promotion of the 1980s, Feminist Book Fortnight, was published as this year’s revived event got underway. Feminist Book Fortnight 2022 featured events across

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The Fab Feminist Festive Fair 9 Dec 2021

Karolina Szpyrko, PhD researcher at the School of Media, Arts, and Humanities, writes: “I loved getting involved in this pre-holiday showcase of ethical, feminist business at the University of Sussex. Our Fab Feminist Festive Fair brought together educational and sales

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Mapping feminist loneliness

Feminism is sustained by collective organising but women have often been driven to campaign by a sense of loneliness. This is my surprising finding while working with The Business of Women’s Words project (BOWW) and exploring the hidden history of feminist enterprise in the many independent magazines, journals, imprints, bookshops and other small creative businesses which the movement enabled – and which also enabled the movement, despite a general antipathy to capitalism.

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Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights

BOWW has made a significant contribution to the British Library’s new landmark exhibition, Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights, which shows how feminist activism in the UK today has roots in a long, complex and compelling history of struggle.

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The commerce of romance: from Edwardian to Second Wave feminism

The talk I gave on Friday 14 June 2019 at the National is about courtship and forbidden love in the Edwardian period (mostly) and is linked to the theatre’s showing of Githa Sowerby’s Rutherford and Son (1912). It’s a fascinating play

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Feminist Maps and Mapping Feminism

Feminist Maps and Mapping Feminism: Lessons from The Women’s Atlas Sussex Humanities Lab with the CLHLWR With legendary geographer Joni Seager Thursday 23 May 2019, 15.00-17.00pm

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