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Amanda Darrach is a CJR Delacorte Fellow and a visiting scholar at the University of 58³Ô¹Ï School of International Relations.

In theme with the ongoing UCU strikes, for the next Feminist Philosophy Reading Group we will be discussing the relationship between feminism and socialism! We will be reading Ann Ferguson’s entry on Socialism in the Blackwell Companion to Feminist Philosophy and you can access the paper here(with your uni login): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781405164498.ch52 . It’s a nice short paper…

Women for Women International are really excited to be hosting Amber Rudd for an evening discussing her career path experience as a woman in politics. Amber Rudd is a British politician who has served as Minister for Women and Equalities and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. She held the position of Home Secretary…

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To raise awareness of period poverty, menstrual wellbeing and the need for more environmentally-friendly menstrual products, we are delighted to be working with Hey Girls – a social enterprise based in Musselburgh – to lead a workshop in how to use a Menstrual Cup. Book here

Collection of documentary footage from the National Library of Scotland. Scotland’s women lived through major social change in the twentieth century, challenging their roles in society and fighting for equality: at work and at home, classroom to croft, girlhood to motherhood. Discover their stories and hear their voices in Her Century, a timely collection of…

Hungary | 1975 | 89 minutes | Hungarian  Hosted by: Prof. Dina Iordanova, Department of Film Studies  Adoption is a 1975 Hungarian drama film directed by Márta Mészáros. It tells the story of Kata, an unmarried female factory worker, who becomes interested in neglected children and tries to adopt one. 

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Professor Diana Paton, William Robertson Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh will speak on: ‘Gender history, Global history, and Atlantic slavery’.