Category: Video
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Rosie’s testimony (part 3 of 3)
In the third and final part of Rosie’s testimony she talks about moving to Newcastle and finding local networks via women’s magazines, her work with the Workers Educational Association (WEA) and “magazines” she reads now. Before I go on I just want to ask you Rosie if you remember any of the names of the…
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Rosie’s testimony (part 2 of 3)
In the second part of Rosie’s testimony she talks about her mother’s experiences and outlook, how the culture of a community can change how people think and how women’s magazines influenced the style of mainstream media. In a way, a lot of the questions have already been addressed. But I did want to go back…
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Rosie’s testimony (part 1 of 3)
In the first part of Rosie’s testimony she talks about her first encounters with Shrew in the early 1970s in a radical bookshop in Luton. She talks about her mother and her Northern Irish Catholic background, the importance of childcare and her interests in equal opportunities and equality for women. This is Victoria Bazin and…
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Sue’s testimony (part 3 of 3)
In the third and final part of Sue’s testimony she talks about how feminism helped to forge links across different groups and sections of society, about the power of collective experience in the 1980s and 90s and how it differs from today, and the rise of Lesbian Feminism. Joanne’s testimony (1 of 3) » “We…
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Sue’s testimony (part 2 of 3)
In the second part of Sue’s testimony she talks about the excitement of learning and understanding international issues and women’s universal experience and how reading magazines like Spare Rib and OutWrite helped her to develop a “feminist lens” to view conventional media through. She also talks about different feminisms, Lesbian and Gay activism and the…
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Victoria’s testimony
Victoria talks about her first experiences of reading Ms. magazine in the early 1970s while visiting family in the USA