‘A True WAF Warrior’: In Memory of Helen Lowe
Clara Connolly remembers Helen’s participation in Women Against Fundamentalism.
Tag Archives: feminism
Helen Lowe obituary
2011. Helen Lowe 1944-2011.
The Gender Politics of Anarchist History: re/membering women, re/minding men
2010. Gendered approaches to anarchist history can generate new ideas about anarchism past, present and future.
Paper given at PSA conference, Edinburgh, 2010.
Speaking Desire: anarchism and free love as utopian performance in fin de siècle Britain
2009. Anarchists and others debate free love in theory and practice. What is the relationship between sexual freedom and social transformation?
Chapter from Laurence Davis and Ruth Kinna, eds, Anarchism and Utopianism.
Desire, delight, regret: discovering Elizabeth Gibson
2008. Researching an unknown relative, poet and feminist Elizabeth Gibson, raised tricky questions of methodology as well as the challenges of combining family history and academic research. Article from Qualitative Research, 2008:8.
Shoulder to Shoulder: Wilfrid and Elizabeth Gibson
2004. Discusses the close relationship between the sibling poets, and the influences on their artistic and political development. Article from Dymock Poets and Friends, No.3.
‘Together we will make a new world’: Sexual and Political Utopianism
2003. How did ideas about free love and sexual liberation change among anarchists and libertarians between the 1880s and the 1970s? Paper given at Past and Present of Radical Sexual Politics, Amsterdam.
No Place For Women? Anti-utopianism and the utopian politics of the 1890s
2002. How do the realistic and practical, the utopian and impossible, become polarised? And what difference does gender make? Discusses women’s fictional and non-fictional accounts of utopian experiments in 1890s England. Article from Geografisker Annaler 84 B.
Impossible Outlaws: Gender, Space and Utopia in ‘Johnny Guitar’
2002. Joan Crawford meets utopian theory in the outlaw territory of the Temporary Autonomous Zone, in this discussion of the film ‘Johnny Guitar’. Article from Altitude, Vol.2, Article1.
It’s What You Do With It That Counts: Interpretations of Otto Weininger
1998. ‘How can one classify and label the different kinds of love?’ Discusses how fin-de-siècle feminists and sexual radicals creatively reinterpreted Weininger’s misogynist theories to challenge restrictive categories of sex and gender. Chapter from Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires, eds. Lucy Bland and Laura Doan.