Tag: women

Learning from the irritant of ‘ethnographic naïveté’: Truth, method and openness to awareness of myths of sex/gender.

November 13, 2025

When, in Act V, Scene 3 of King Lear, Lear carries in the body of his youngest daughter who had, unlike her sisters refused in the first scene to say enough to prove her love of her father to win his favour, he points out that women are to be preferred who speak hardly at … More Learning from the irritant of ‘ethnographic naïveté’: Truth, method and openness to awareness of myths of sex/gender.

Celebrating the achievements of women through visibility: the means and the content of our celebration in Bishop Auckland Town Hall.

March 5, 2025

Celebrating the achievements of women through visibility: the means and the content of our celebration in Bishop Auckland Town Hall. Provincial venues continually stretch themselves as media of radical representation of supposedly silenced and supposedly invisible populations. Visibility is promoted as a political object in all kinds of ‘pride’ celebrations, that insist that the fact … More Celebrating the achievements of women through visibility: the means and the content of our celebration in Bishop Auckland Town Hall.

Making a man of yourself for yourself – the strain of the 1950s

February 19, 2025

Making a man of yourself – the strain of the 1950s Image from The Science Museum archive: https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/58/936/large_2000_0549.jpg (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) We all assume we know what DIY means (without troubling to extend the acronym to the term DO IT YOURSELF). However, it was not always thus as the ‘Brief History of DIY’ page from … More Making a man of yourself for yourself – the strain of the 1950s