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New research into women's history

Naomi Paxton talks to scholars Tania Shew, Caoimhe McAvinchey, Celia Donert and playwright Chloe Moss.

Sex strikes suggested by Suffragettes, a theatre company devoted to exploring the experiences of women in the UK prison system and the campaign to make women's rights at the heart of human rights and its links with socialist eastern Europe: Naomi Paxton finds out about new research into women's history.

Her guests are:

Tania Shew specialises in the history of feminist thought. She's currently a Scouloudi Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research working on sex strikes and birth strikes as tactics in the British and American women鈥檚 suffrage movements, 1890-1920.

Dr Celia Donert is Associate Professor in Central European History at the University of Cambridge. She is writing a book exploring How Women's Rights became Human Rights: Gender, Socialism, and Postsocialism in Global History, 1917-2017.

Caoimhe Mcavinchey is Professor of Socially Engaged and Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University London. She has been working on a project Clean Break: Women, Theatre Organisation and the Criminal Justice System

Chlo毛 Moss is a playwright who has worked with Clean Break on a number of projects.

You can see a film of Chlo毛's drama Sweatbox on the website https://www.cleanbreak.org.uk/

Producer: Paula McFarlane

You can find a playlist featuring New Research on a range of topics on Radio 3's Free Thinking programme website /programmes/p03zws90

There is another playlist called Women in the World /programmes/p084ttwp

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44 minutes

Last on

Wed 9 Mar 2022 22:00

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  • Wed 9 Mar 2022 22:00

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