This is a guest post by Emily Jones, a third year Theatre student at Lancaster. Emily originally wrote this for a half-day Gender and Women’s Studies seminar which I co- organised with a colleague Anne Cronin (from Sociology) entitled ‘Is the Personal Still Political?: Young Women and Sexualisation’. The impetus for this seminar was our … Continue reading
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So Did One Billion Rise (and The Vagina Monologues, Lancaster).
Global So did one billion rise? It is hard to tell. In the UK this was partly because the main news channels did not appear to perceive this worldwide campaign to highlight and protest against rape and violence against one billion women per year to be a ‘top’ story. Indeed for the BBC it appears … Continue reading
One Billion Rising: Eve Ensler vists Lancaster, Sunday 3rd February.
Yesterday, on a grey afternoon, we went out together, joining a 200-strong crowd of women and men, some with children, to watch a group of around 40 young student women (some, we are proud to say, our own theatre students) perform a dance in Lancaster Market Square as part of a protest demanding the end … Continue reading
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