Saturday, 26 September 2015

Motherhood & Me (or Life Is What Happens Whilst You're Busy Writing a Birth Plan)

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Over ten months ago, just after eleven o' clock at night, my husband and I walked hand in hand towards the hospital which is a few block...
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Sunday, 11 May 2014

Masters!, They Say. But Where Are the Mistresses? Premiere of The Story of Women and Art Part I on BBC 2

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Professor Amanda Vickery (image source: BBC 2)  To watch the programme, please click on the title below: The Story of Women an...
Monday, 10 March 2014

The Woman Reflected: Vivian Maier

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Vivian Maier, Photographer (1926 -2009) Inhabiting the attic and the world was the road you walked during your lunch hour. You had y...
Friday, 7 March 2014

International Women's Day 2014 - and What Have We Done?

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Nu Cubista by Brazilian artist Anita Malfatti (1916) We have done a lot. We can vote and we so should. We can have a go at raising a f...
Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Look at Me! Pretty Ugly by Louise Orwin at Camden Arts Centre

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image source: Louise Orwin official website-  www.louiseorwin.com On BBC radio 4 Woman's Hour  this morning, performance artist  a...
Monday, 21 October 2013

Home Truths: Against the Idealization of Motherhood

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Image by Elinor Carucci, Feeding Emanuella with a Bottle After I Stopped Breast-Feeding Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Identi...
Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Quote from Hilary Mantel's Royal Bodies.

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"The pen is in our hands. A happy ending is ours to write." Read the full article here. 
Monday, 7 October 2013

Just a Girl: Malala Youzafzai (b. 1997) - Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

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Malala Youzafsai, 16 years old, shot in the head and neck by Taliban gunmen in 2011 for demanding the right for girls in Pakistan to go to s...

Talking of Witches...

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Text and Image Source: Visit Lancashire website. A poem by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has been carved into the landscape of a new 51-m...

The Mistress Bookshelf: The Book of Courtesans by Susan Griffin

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Words are powerful. Look at the word 'Mistress'. What do you think of when you hear it or read it ? That is why is important to in...