A letter that mistakenly made its way into the Freud Archives reveals hidden tensions in the history of psychoanalysis - and, as Agnes Meadows explores, in the nature of archives themselves.
How did US women have abortions when it was illegal? Rosa Campbell explores an archive of US women's testimonies of abortions across borders, in Japan, Puerto Rico and Mexico, with resonances for today.
Why in 1970s Scandinavia did feminists run a campaign against Sweden joining the European Economic Community, later called the EU? Hannah Yoken explores.
Rebecca Turkington explores how the #MeToo movement in China today is made possible through rich histories of Chinese feminists organising inside, alongside and beyond the state.
Across the world people are raising their voices in support of a Universal Basic Income. Toru Yamamori uncovers the forgotten feminist history behind this demand.
In 1995, 8000 US feminists went to Beijing for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Lisa Levenstein finds that this conference had huge impact on grassroots feminism in the US for years to come.
This is the introduction for the (Un)Silenced: Institutional Sexual Violence feature, which explores how sexual violence relates to various societal institutions. The series provides a historical understanding of the ways in which sexual…
Why, since Brexit, have working class people in Britain come to be thought of as not just white but also male? Laura Schwartz suggests to understand this, we must look at history.
What does the vaginal speculum have to do with power? How does the history of this instrument help us to understand how bodies have been understood, policed, and governed? Can this object be reclaimed?
Lisa Godson explores.
How did the movements for bodily autonomy by those without the capacity to conceive - travestis, maricas, and gays – contribute to Argentina's recent legalization of abortion? Marce Butierrez and Patricio Simonetto trace the genealogy of…
The "Sex Buyers' Bill" now pending in Parliament aims to protect women from exploitation by criminalizing men who buy sex, yet it is vehemently opposed by UK sex workers. Julia Laite explores the tangled history and woeful consequences of…
As the film 'Misbehaviour' launches this week, Poppy Sebag-Montefiore speaks to women's liberationist and flour-bomber of the Miss World contest, Sally Alexander (played by Kiera Knightly), about history, psychoanalysis and collectivity.
How does CN Lester's 'Trans Like Me' offer radical new perspectives on the integral relationship between feminism and trans rights? Onni Gust investigates as part of HWO's Remembering Stonewall feature.
Not just nostalgia: family historians are at the forefront of challenges to traditional histories that are 'gendered, classed, raced and heteronormative', argues public historian Tanya Evans.
Book your tickets now for the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture. This year, Yasmin Khan speaks on 'Women On The Frontline Of Empire': a feminist history of the Second World War - 7 March 2019 at Queen Mary University of London
The Republic of Ireland stands on the brink of its referendum on abortion. Ann Rossiter reports from the campaign trail on the long road to bodily autonomy in Ireland and an opportunity for change
A year on from their innovative 'Women Historians' exhibition at the Institute of Historical Research, Laura Carter and Alana Carter look at how we can recover and generate spaces of #womenhistorians
How did working-class mothers during the Industrial Revolution combine waged labour with childcare? Melanie Reynolds explores little-known practices of women caring for their children in factories and mills
