Feminism and History: Rethinking women’s movements since 1800
This one-day conference will explore the relationship between writing feminist history and the history of feminism. It aims, on the one hand, to generate an historical perspective on the rise of women’s, gender and feminist history within the context of the Women’s Liberation movement in the 1970s and 80s. On the other, it hopes to act as a forum in which new approaches to the history of feminism can be discussed and developed.
Focusing on women’s ideas and struggles since 1800, we aim to develop new insights into both the history of feminism as a social, cultural and intellectual movement; and the past and present writing of feminist historiography.
15 November 2008, Bishopsgate Institute, London.
Organizers: History of Feminism Network
Sponsors: Bishopsgate Institute, Raphael Samuel
History Centre, Department of Politics at Goldsmiths,
University of London