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Free Thinking: New research into women's history

New research into women's history

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, New research into women's history

The Clean Break theatre company, sex strikes, East European feminism. Naomi Paxton hosts.

Naomi Paxton talks to scholars Tania Shew, Caoimhe McAvinchey, Celia Donert and playwright Chloe Moss.

Sex strikes suggested by Suffragettes, a theatre company devoted to exploring the experiences of women in the UK prison system and the campaign to make women's rights at the heart of human rights and its links with socialist eastern Europe: Naomi Paxton finds out about new research into women's history.  

Her guests are:

Tania Shew specialises in the history of feminist thought. She's currently a Scouloudi Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research working on sex strikes and birth strikes as tactics in the British and American women’s suffrage movements, 1890-1920.  

Dr Celia Donert is Associate Professor in Central European History at the University of Cambridge.  She is writing a book exploring How Women's Rights became Human Rights: Gender, Socialism, and Postsocialism in Global History, 1917-2017. 

Caoimhe Mcavinchey is Professor of Socially Engaged and Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University London. She has been working on a project Clean Break: Women, Theatre Organisation and the Criminal Justice System

Chloë Moss is a playwright who has worked with Clean Break on a number of projects. 

You can see a film of Chloë's drama Sweatbox on the website https://www.cleanbreak.org.uk/ 

Producer: Paula McFarlane 

You can find a playlist featuring New Research on a range of topics on Radio 3's Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90

There is another playlist called Women in the World https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p084ttwp

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