The “Solving the Purpose-Profit Puzzle” event, held on 21st October 2024 at the Business & IP Centre (BIPC) Brighton & Hove, brought together a group of social entrepreneurs and business leaders to explore the challenges of balancing social purpose with…
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THE SELECTED TWENTY TITLES (2023-24)
To celebrate Feminist Book Fortnight this year BOWW teamed up with The Feminist Bookshop to debate how to ‘put feminism, feminist writers, books and publishers squarely and firmly in the mainstream marketplace, onto the educational curriculum and on library shelves’.…
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Purpose and Profit in the Feminist Book Trade with Jane Cholmeley & Lesley Wood
Hear more from Ruth Wainwright, founder of The Feminist Bookshop, in Brighton on her personal reflections and inspirations as a bookseller with a mission. https://thefeministbookshop.com/blogs/tfb-blog/purpose-and-profit-in-feminist-bookselling
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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.
Tagged with: Digital Humanities, digital maps, feminist geography, loneliness, rural, urban, women's liberation movement
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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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