Older Posts: 2015
What Women Talk About When They Talk About Sex: Podcast #1
This is the first in a series of podcasts that share some of the discussion from a group ‘What women talk about when they talk about sex’ that took place at Glasgow Women’s Library during spring and Summer 2015 as part of our Sex in The Women’s Library Season supported by the Wellcome Trust.
What Women Talk About When They Talk About Sex Transcript #1: Bodies and Sex
These extracts typify the wide ranging discussion on the body. They evoke many of the issues that have vexed feminism debates in the Second Wave on representation, body dysmorphia and the struggle for women to claim their bodies as their own and to navigate the ways they could perceive them as positive and having sexual agency.
My work experience at GWL.
I did work experience at Glasgow Women’s Library
Seeing Things Best of 2015 (so far!)
For the last two years the Seeing Things group has been going to see art exhibitions; book launches and readings; artists talks and other performances in Glasgow and further afield. […]
Feminism from the past – The Archives.
I got a chance to look at some objects from the archives in Glasgow Women’s Library. One object that particularly interested me was a postcard from the 20th century. The […]
What I learned from ‘March’.
I got to watch the film March as part of my work experience at Glasgow Women’s Library, and it gave me an insight in to how much great things women have achieved throughout the years and how little recognition they have.
Women and WW1: 1914 from a Suffragist Perspective
With the outbreak of WW1 in the summer of 1914, the campaign for women’s right to vote was officially put on hold. However, looking at the attitudes in 1914 of leading Suffragists in GWL’s collection of ‘Jus Suffragii’, the mouthpiece of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance, it is evident that the goal of suffrage was still highly relevant even during this time of upheaval.
Volunteer Photo Project: Mel
Meet another of our amazing volunteers, Mel!
Bold Types: Scottish Women’s Creative Writing Competition 2015
Be bold and submit your short stories and poems to our annual writing competition. This year our theme is Transformation and Renewal and submission is open from Monday 21st September to Monday 9th November.