WOMEN, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND THE CUTS

WOMEN, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND THE CUTS



Thursday 26th May  2011   6-9 p.m.

A meeting to hear what is happening and plan action



Feminist Library, 5 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7XW



On hearing about the threatened closure of the History Dept at London

Met, where Lucy Bland, one of this country's most respected feminist

historians, works, we at the Feminist Library started thinking that

there ought to be a concerted feminist outcry about what is happening in

our universities. It's  about more than Women's Studies. It's about the

fact that the Humanities in general, which are studied by more women

than men, are under particular attack, it's about older women returning

to study, it's about a woman lecturer being threatened with redundancy

because she was on maternity leave when the axe started falling in her

university, and she too teaches a subject, not Humanities, where most of

her students are women, and of course it's also about racism and

classism and all the other ways that women get systematically dumped on,

both inside academia and without.



At the meeting we will hear about the many problems women are facing in

Higher Education from a number of different perspectives.



Speakers will include:

Lucy Bland (London Metropolitan University), Patrizia Di Bello

(Birkbeck, University of London), Women Against the Cuts, UKUncut, women

student activists, Women's Budget Group, and others to be confirmed.



This will be followed by an exchange of ideas about actions we can take

and alliances we can make. Please spread this information around your

networks.

Everyone is welcome.



The Feminist Library hopes to hold further meetings on how the cuts

affect women in different areas, e.g. health, school education,

disability, housing, social services.  If you have other ideas or would

like to contribute in any way, please contact us at

adminfeministlibrary [ punto ] co [ punto ] uk (admin[at]feministlibrary[dot]co[dot]uk) or 020 7261 0879.  Unfortunately, we have

restricted disabled access, so please also contact us to see how we can

help.



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