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We're celebrating International Women's Day with a few posters from 'See Red Women's Workshop: Feminist Posters 1974–1990' published by @fourcornersbooks⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ A feminist silkscreen poster collective founded in London in 1974 by three former art students, the See Red Women’s Workshop grew out of a shared desire to combat sexist images of women and to create positive and challenging alternatives. Women from different backgrounds came together to make posters and calendars that tackled issues of sexuality, identity and oppression. With humor and bold, colorful graphics, See Red expressed the personal experiences of women as well as their role in wider struggles for change.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Written by See Red members, detailing the group’s history up until the closure of the workshop in 1990, and with a foreword by celebrated feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham, 'See Red Women’s Workshop' features all of the collective’s original screenprints and posters. Confronting negative stereotypes, questioning the role of women in society, and promoting women’s self-determination, the power and energy of these images reflect an important and dynamic era of women’s liberation—with continued relevance for today.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Foreword by Sheila Rowbotham. Text by Prudence Stevenson, Susan Mackie, Anne Robinson, Jess Baines.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #SheilaRowbotham #PrudenceStevenson #SusanMackie #AnneRobinson #JessBaines #SeeRedWomensWorkshop #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2021 #WomenArtists #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #FeministMovement #WomensRightsMovement #FeministArt #WomensMarch #WomensCollective #GenerationEquality #EqualityMatters #EqualityCantWait #WomensProtest https://www.instagram.com/p/CMKT0Jyp-rD/?igshid=g6dtdg1tk0fc

[victoriamartinezwriter]

For the final #FemaleFriday of Women's History Month, I'm highlighting another women whose work in the field of women's history has and does inspire me in my historical research and writing. British historian Sheila Rowbotham's (b. 1943) 1973 book "Hidden From History: Rediscovering Women in History From the 17th Century to the Present" was one of the first I read on the subject that just absolutely blew me away. I even sent her a gushing email, and was thrilled to get a very thoughtful response. The book remains a well-read, much-marked, and frequently-cited volume on my bookshelf. Like the other women I have featured, she is a prolific writer, with many great works to her name; I only single out "Hidden From History" here because it remains my favorite. Below I quote a passage from the Introduction to the American Edition, the volume I own, which was published in 1976. It is not an inspirational quote, per se, but rather one that I follow as a principle in my research and writing in general: "We need to combine popular enthusiasm and directness of style with painstaking research, even though present-day society, with its pressures of work, money and political activity, makes it difficult for one person to supply both." The image Sheila Rowbotham in the graphic I've created is courtesy Pluto Press (https://www.plutobooks.com/author/sheila-rowbotham/). You can find more about Sheila here (https://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/sheila.rowbotham/publications) and here (https://www.bl.uk/people/sheila-rowbotham). #WomensHistoryMonth #SheilaRowbotham #WomensHistory #WriteAboutWomen #Feminism https://www.instagram.com/victoriamartinezwriter/p/BvmWZ2ZAyu3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1th9asxmn91pe

[itshousmansradicalbookshop]

Published by @bookworksuk the #autobiography of #activist Nan Berger by artist Ruth Ewan. we'll be doing an event on this book so stay tuned! ⠀ ⠀ Sheila Rowbotham writes ‘Twenty–Nine Thousand Nights: A Communist Life is an unusual chronicle of the personal journey of Nan Berger through her writings, intelligence reports and visual images. From a wealthy middle class Northern family, Berger was drawn to the Communist Party in the 1930s because of her horror of fascism. Shocked by the tactics of the British police at an anti- fascist meeting, she became a lifelong campaigner for Civil Liberties. World War Two brought her into the civil service and she was awarded an OBE in 1948 for her work in the Ministry of Fuel. Nevertheless in the changed post-war world she found herself regarded as lacking qualifications. Through the Communist Party and the National Assembly of Women, Nan Berger became an early critic of gender inequality, writing Woman Fancy or Free? with Joan Maizels. This intriguing exploration of documents from one woman’s life conveys the many unexpected byways of left political commitment in the Twentieth Century, bringing to the surface a wider social history.’ ⠀ ⠀ #nanberger #sheilarowbotham # bookworks #ruthewan

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A couple of feminist classics that often crop up in our #bargainbasement #Repost @jacob_laneria ・・・ Found paperback Rowbotham yesterday, so that makes two Pelican editions of Western feminist classics, eventually reissued by Verso. #igreads #bookstagram #pelicanbooks #sheilarowbotham #julietmitchell #feminism #versobooks