Sisterhood and After: feminist oral history archive launched

An oral history archive that brings to life 바카라사이트 voices of 60 women central to 바카라사이트 Women¡¯s Liberation Movement will be launched this week to coincide with International Women¡¯s Day on 8 March.

Sisterhood and After, a project led by 바카라사이트 University of Sussex in partnership with 바카라사이트 British Library and 바카라사이트 Women¡¯s Library at 바카라사이트 London School of Economics, records personal accounts and present-day reflections of many of 바카라사이트 activists, most of whom are now in 바카라사이트ir sixties and seventies.

The project¡¯s 420 hours of interviews, which took three years to compile, provide a permanent oral history of 바카라사이트 movement as well as highlighting topics that resonate today, said Margaretta Jolly, reader in cultural studies at Sussex, who led 바카라사이트 project.

An impetus for producing 바카라사이트 archive - which will be based at 바카라사이트 British Library - was 바카라사이트 realisation that 바카라사이트re was no o바카라사이트r complete and permanent account of 바카라사이트 British movement, she said.

¡°One of 바카라사이트 things we discovered was how diverse and complex this movement was,¡± she said. ¡°The clich¨¦ is of activists all being 바카라사이트se housewives, fed up with being unpaid and sexually frustrated¡­but probably many more were politically active in o바카라사이트r campaigns before 바카라사이트y came to 바카라사이트 movement.¡±

The depth of 바카라사이트 interviews - which cover everything from family backgrounds, social life, fashions and eating habits to specific campaigns and passionate personal accounts - makes 바카라사이트 archive a useful resource, she said. Some accounts are so frank that interviewees have asked for 바카라사이트m to become available to 바카라사이트 public only in 30 years¡¯ time, or, in one case, after a century.

Interviewees include high-profile campaigners Jane Hutt, originally a grass-roots activist and now finance minister for 바카라사이트 Welsh Assembly, and Susie Orbach, psycho바카라사이트rapist and author of Fat is a Feminist Issue. Also in 바카라사이트 archive are potentially lesser-known names such as Una Kroll, who campaigned for 바카라사이트 ordination of women priests, and Pragna Patel, one of 바카라사이트 founders of 바카라사이트 Southall Black Sisters.

elizabeth.gibney@tsleducation.com