[Anarchafeminists] Reminder: Women, Higher Education and the Cuts - Tonight

[butterflea at riseup.net]

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 admin at feministlibrary.co.uk or
020 7261 0879.  Unfortunately, we have restricted disabled access, so
please also contact us to see how we can help.

www.feministlibrary.co.uk

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