Category: Case Studies

Thoughts on Are You My Mother?

Published on by Katie Young

This post was published 7 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

Alison Bechdel’s second memoir, Are You My Mother?, explores her relationship with her mother and her quest for her to understand their relationship. It discusses her experiences of therapy in her attempts both to understand herself from a psychoanalytical perspective and the way she and her mother interact with each other. It also covers her parents’ relationship, and her mother’s marriage to a closeted gay man as detailed in her first memoir, Fun Home.

Creative Commemoration: Putting the ‘Story’ in ‘History’

Published on by Maddy Robinson

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Some thoughts on the importance of telling stories as a gateway to the past, inspired by the recent BBC Reith Lectures and GWL’s ‘Voices from the Belvidere’.

Arena Three: Lesbians do it better

Published on by Giorgia Succi

This post was published 8 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

Here we go to my third post! In this blog I am going to compare Arena Three’s editorial structure and aims with those of Urania (So, do no worry if […]

We Are GWL: Louisina and Claire

Published on by Gabrielle

This post was published 8 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

We Are GWL is a way of providing introductions to our amazing volunteers and workers who make the library what it is. Find out what you can do, see and be through reading our volunteers stories. Interview and photography by Jessica S.U.

We Are GWL: Tasha and Clare

Published on by Jessica S

This post was published 8 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

We Are GWL is a way of providing introductions to our amazing volunteers and workers who make the library what it is. Find out what you can do, see and be through reading our volunteers stories. Interview and photography by Jessica S.U.

We Are GWL: Zefi and Amaia

Published on by Jessica S

This post was published 8 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

We Are GWL is a way of providing introductions to our amazing volunteers and workers who make the library what it is. Find out what you can do, see and be through reading our volunteers stories. Interview and photography by Jessica S.U.