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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">WOMEN, HIGHER
EDUCATION, AND THE CUTS<BR>Thursday 26th May 2011 6-9
p.m.<BR>A meeting to hear what is happening and plan action<BR><BR>Feminist
Library, 5 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7XW<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>At the meeting we will hear about the many problems women
are facing in Higher Education from a number of different
perspectives.<BR><BR>Speakers will include:<BR>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.<BR><BR>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. <BR>Everyone is welcome.<BR><BR>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
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face="Times New Roman"> or 020 7261 0879. Unfortunately, we have
restricted disabled access, so please also contact us to see how we can
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