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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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