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Staff Writer, | 27 February: DIFFICULT WOMEN: A History Of Feminism in 11 Fights (Jonathan Cape) | Tweets auto-destruct.

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: lipanj 2007.

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    Pre-order the book that Caitlin Moran called “part intellectual weapon, part cocktail with a friend”, Mary Beard called “a great manifesto” and my mum called “well, it’s certainly eye-catching, isn’t it?”

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  2. That’s the memorial to Savita in south Dublin. I went there as voting drew to a close. It was covered in notes. “I’m so sorry we let you down,” read one. “It won’t be in vain.” Later that night the exit poll came out: Ireland had voted to Repeal.

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  3. The campaign was galvanised by the death in 2012 of 31-year-old Savita Halappanavar, who miscarried at 17 weeks pregnant. But Irish doctors would not terminate because of the Eighth’s injunction to give the life of the foetus “equal weight”. Savita died of sepsis four days later.

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  4. 4. On 24 May 2018, activists fighting to repeal the Eighth amendment to the Irish constitution - which harshly restricted abortion access - gathered on James Joyce Bridge in Dublin to watch, they hoped, “the sun set on the Eighth for the last time”.

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    3. velj

    "It is hard to overestimate quite how much time and energy Brexit has demanded from Britain’s politicians since the referendum … Since 2016, Brexit has been an oxygen thief."

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  6. 3. velj

    This was really striking. There's a huge amount of strain on public services, and while it might not have been enough to stop the Conservatives getting re-elected in December, it presents a big challenge for their next 5 years.

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    I looked at Boris Johnson's in-tray, and all the areas of the public realm which have struggled to get a look-in during the existential phase of Brexit

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  8. 3. velj

    Hmm. It doesn't look like there's "no hate, no fear" or that "every gender is welcome here", does it?

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  9. 3. velj

    (Incidentally, you can read those letters to Stopes - as well as all kinds of incredible stuff on open shelves - at the Wellcome Library in Euston, which is free and open to the public. The perfect place to sprawl on a big cushion while reading about "die Krankheit onania".)

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  10. 3. velj

    Marie Stopes did help women like that, with her "Pro-Race cap". As its name suggests, Stopes - like many early 20th century intellectuals - was a supporter of eugenics. She sent Hitler a volume of her poetry in 1939, with a note saying "love is the greatest thing in the world".

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  11. 3. velj

    "Could you be kind enough to tell me the safest Means for Prevention of Children as my age is 37. I have a very Weak Heart if I have any more it might prove fatal my inside is quite exausted," wrote one woman who had 14 children - 9 still living. Her doctor wouldn't help her.

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    3. In 1918, Marie Stopes published Married Love, one of the first books to give practical birth control advice to British women. The letters she received afterwards (40 per cent from men) give an insight into just how grim some people's lives were without contraceptive access.

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  13. 2. velj

    The Grunwick strike was cited as an inspiration by Samira Ahmed in her equal pay claim against the BBC. It was about dignity at work, not just low pay. There is more about it here:

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  14. 2. velj

    After the manager told her son off, saying Grunwick was "not a zoo", Desai told him: "In a zoo there are many types of animal. Some are monkeys who dance to your tune; others are lions who can bite your head off. We are the lions, Mr Manager." Then she walked out to strike.

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  15. 2. velj

    2. Jayaben Desai, one of the "strikers in saris" who protested the working conditions at the Grunwick film processing lab, which employed mostly female immigrants. They were paid poor wages, made to do overtime at short notice and had to ask the manager to use the toilet.

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  16. 1. velj

    "No one to say what we should do or what we should not do, no family ties, we were free and alone in a great brilliant city, scores of young women scarcely out of their teens ... outlaws or breakers of laws, independent of everything and everybody, fearless and self-confident."

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  17. 1. velj

    1. Meet Annie Kenney. The highest ranking working-class woman in the Suffragettes. This is a first edition of her 1924 book Memories of A Militant (in Suffragette colours!). Kenney once skipped bail and had herself delivered to a suffrage meeting in a hamper to avoid the police.

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  18. 1. velj

    Difficult Women is out this month! We decided not to have photos, so I thought I'd do a twitter advent calendar to count down to publication, with some of the things I loved from archives, libraries and my reporting. You can pre-order a signed copy here

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    30. sij

    Britain Takes Control. With Brexit Day soon upon us, I take a longer look at how we got here—and why. Spoiler: it’s about control, and who holds it

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  20. 29. sij

    Mind you, the best place to complain about twitter has always been . . . twitter

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  21. 29. sij
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