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A HISTORIAN dropped from the agenda of a feminist conference because of her association with Woman’s Place UK (WPUK) was reinvited into the hall yesterday after a show-of-hands vote.
Oxford University scholar Selina Todd was booked to give a short “thank you” speech during the event at the university’s Exeter College on Saturday that commemorated the 50th anniversary of Ruskin’s inaugural Women’s Liberation Conference.
Ms Todd said that she was “shocked” to be told by organisers that the evening prior that she could attend, but not speak.
Professor MARY DAVIS argues that feminism has been hollowed out by liberal co-option – and only a revival of socialist, class-based politics can restore International Working Women’s Day’s original, radical purpose
Held at a last-minute undisclosed venue amid fear of disruption, a Women’s Rights Network event brought together authors and activists, offering a day of debate on feminism’s past, present and future. JADE MIDDLETON reports
WILL PODMORE welcomes the case put by a feminist, disentangling the abusive rhetoric of the trans rights debate
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Women’s Declaration International conference on feminist struggles from Britain to the Far East