working class women Archives

Trade unions are (still) fighting for women at work

Guest Blogger24 March 2018

Anything but old-fashioned, trade unions are at the forefront of the fight for women to be treated fairly at work, writes Marion Scovell...

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In search of working class voices

Charlotte Davies6 October 2016

Charlotte Davies, our guest blogger for October, asks what working class means in 2016 and considers whether mainstream feminism is inclusive enough...

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“It was such a laugh!” Writer Nell Dunn in conversation

Selina Robertson7 June 2016

Selina Robertson interviews Nell Dunn, novelist and the screenwriter behind Ken Loach’s first feature film Poor Cow, as the 1967 classic is re-released in cinemas...

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On love and abandonment: The Second Mother

Huma Munshi1 September 2015

Huma Munshi is touched by The Second Mother, Brazilian director Anna Muylaert’s film about a domestic worker that questions rigid social hierarchies as well as obvious familial arrangements...

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Erased from history

Guest Blogger3 June 2013

Louise Whittle urges us to remember the working class women who fought for women's suffrage ...

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