Articles about Herstory
Are you writing in permanent marker?
What happens when a brilliant feminist blog gets deleted, or an online magazine disappears? The Women's Library is ensuring that as many resources as possible leave a more permanent mark through the British Library Web Archive, Inderbir Bhullar explains
Inderbir Bhullar // 20 November 2011
Categories: Culture and Media, Feminism, Herstory
Women's erasure from women's memorials
The only memorial to women's contributions in World War II depicts empty clothing. Carolyn Dougherty considers what this says about the erasure of women from public spaces. With contributions from Alex Wardrop
Carolyn Dougherty // 16 June 2011
Categories: Herstory
A woman called Toothpaste: an interview with Lucy Whitman
Cazz Blase interviews Lucy Toothpaste, who wrote the fanzine JOLT and played a central role in the punk feminist movement
Cazz Blase // 20 May 2011
Categories: Culture and Media, Herstory, Interviews, Magazines, Music
The revolution is in you
Chloe Stopa-Hunt looks back to the historical figure of Lucile Duplessis from the French Revolution and considers how she has been 'put back' into history by modern writers
Chloe Stopa-Hunt // 4 May 2011
Categories: Culture and Media, Feminism, Herstory
'I'm 37 with enough stories for an 80 year old'
Ece Temelkuran's passion for storytelling is clear in the first few minutes of meeting her. But, as a Turkish woman, some stories are dangerous for her to tell. Mary Pole reports
Mary Pole // 10 March 2011
Categories: Herstory, Interviews, Politics and Current Affairs
Punk women write back
Women from the 1970s punk scene in the UK have not stood by as their contributions were erased from the music history books, but have documented that time with their own books and films. Cazz Blase reports
Cazz Blase // 2 January 2011
Categories: Culture and Media, Herstory, Interviews
A modest reminder
On 2 March, 1911, Emily Davison hid in a broom cupboard in order to be registered as resident at the House of Commons on the census. Nearly 100 years later, as the next census approaches, David Standen revisits Davison's story
David Standen // 24 November 2010
Women in punk: the return
The 1990s brought with them grunge, riot grrrl - and fresh inspiration for the women at the centre of Britain's 1970s punk scene. Cazz Blase continues her series
Cazz Blase // 12 October 2010
Categories: Culture and Media, Herstory
Out with the old warrior queens, in with the new?
Boudicca's warrior-queen appeal to activists is enduring. But, argues Hanna Thomas, is it time to create some new myths?
Hanna Thomas // 3 October 2010
Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence, 30 years later
A J Conroy looks back at what we can learn about the need to form ties with other women from Adrienne Rich's famous essay
A.J. Conroy // 15 August 2010
Women in punk: the disappearing years
What happened to the women of 1970s British punk once the 1980s dawned? Cazz Blase continues her series
Cazz Blase // 22 July 2010
Categories: Herstory
Sarkless Kitty and the ghosts of misogyny
A young woman transgresses against the strict gender roles of her time. Katharine Edgar considers the seed of truth behind ghost stories such as Sarkless Kitty
Katharine Edgar // 24 June 2010
Categories: Herstory
Women of the punk era
Cazz Blase interviews women of British 1970s punk on the music - and the politics, in part three of her series
Cazz Blase // 24 April 2010
Categories: Culture and Media, Herstory
Writing women back into punk
In the second installment of her series, Cazz Blase looks at how punk was covered by the music and feminist presses, the work of female journalists, and how women punks came to be largely written out of the history books
Cazz Blase // 14 March 2010
Categories: Culture and Media, Herstory
Women in punk: 'Too Good To Be Forgotten'
Women's involvement in British punk has been marginalised and written out of mainstream histories. In the next few months, The F-Word will run a series of features on women in punk by Cazz Blase. By way of introduction, here she sketches out her own first encounters with the genre, and carries out a vox pop in Manchester to gauge whether the person on the street can name any women in punk
Cazz Blase // 28 February 2010
Categories: Culture and Media, Herstory
Bring the herstory of riot grrrl back into the present
What has happened to the legacy of riot grrrl? asks Heather McIntosh
Heather McIntosh // 3 February 2010
Categories: Activism, Culture and Media, Feminism, Herstory, Work and Play
A gude cause maks a strong arm
Wisrutta Atthakor reports back from the Gude Cause march through Edinburgh, 100 years to the day since Scottish suffragettes took to the city's streets
Wisrutta Atthakor // 18 November 2009
