Centre for Gender History

British Academy postdoctoral research project run by Dr Andrea Hajek: Exploring the legacy of feminism in Northern Italy: motherhood, family life, sexuality and employment (1967-2012). Funded by the British Academy (2013-2016). 

This oral history project studies the transmission of a history and memory of second-wave feminism in Northern Italy and, more generally, traces the developments in women’s social conditions from the late 1960s to the present day. It engages with questions of how history is made, the role memory plays in this process and what the dynamics of collective and generational memory are. The outcome of the project is an interactive blog and a monograph. 

For more details please visit the project blog.

Leverhulme 2016-18
PI: Dr Maud Bracke

The project Translating Feminism: Transfers, Transgression, Transformation (1945-1991) is funded by the Leverhulme International Network Grant. Dr Maud Bracke is the Principal Investigator. Dr Penny Morris is Chair of the Steering Committee.

This project brings together scholars from three continents wishing to pursue original, interdisciplinary research focused on the global reach of feminist writing and women’s movements. While the transformation of women’s social status is one of the most significant developments of the post-war period around the globe, little is known about the precise ways in which women’s rights campaigners and thinkers across different national and cultural settings communicated with one another, read and translated each other’s texts, and locally gave new meanings to globally travelling ideas. Such intercultural exchanges, we propose, opened up possibilities for individual and social transformation. Historical findings and new theoretical approaches will be discussed at three workshops and a major international conference, and disseminated through academic publications and an interactive website containing original resources.

PI: Dr Maud Bracke

AHRC 2011-15
PI: P Morris