The Women's Library


In-Depth Analysis Study Day:
Here's looking at you, babe! Women in the Media
Saturday February 26 12 - 4.30pm

* 12pm Working girls: Women's magazines in the 1980s - Anna
Gough-Yates Elle. Cosmopolitan.
Working Woman. How did women's magazines reflect and shape popular
culture in Thatcher's Britain?
With Anna Gough-Yates, Academic Leader in Media, Culture and
Communications at London Metropolitan University

* 2pm Sexism, Scandal and the GLC Women's Committee Valerie Wise
Valerie Wise was chair of the GLC Women's Committee in the 1980s,
which set out to make a real difference to women's lives in London.
Now director of the Preston Women's Refuge, Valerie will look back at
the media campaigns and visual imagery that defined the Committee's
work.

* 3.30pm Page Three and Politics in the 1980s Rebecca Loncraine
Page Three has never been more controversial than in the 1980s. Writer
and journalist Rebecca Loncraine discusses the ideas that underpinned
arguments for and against banning it, addressing Victorian values,
pornography, freedom, and women's rights.

Tickets per talk: GBP6, GBP5 concessions. Day tickets: GBP18, GBP15
concessions


Short Course

Breaking Boundaries: Women Writing in the 1970s and 1980s
Saturday 9 and Saturday 23 April 200510.30am-3.30pm

The 1970s began with The Female Eunuch and ended with Margaret
Thatcher in Downing Street. For the next ten years the struggle to
make the personal political continued in literature as well as public
life, as women writers created a self-consciously feminist fiction,
liberating in content as well as style.

Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson are amongst those whose work will
be discussed over two sessions led by Lynn Knight, biographer and past
editor of Virago Modern Classics.

Some reading in advance of the course will be required. Details will
be provided on booking.

Two-day course fee GBP35, GBP25 concessions


Booking Information
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