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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/victoria-gallery-museum-internat
 ional-womens-day-lecture/
SUMMARY:Victoria Gallery & Museum: Victoria Gallery & Museum: International
  Women's Day Lecture
DESCRIPTION:International Women's Day Lecture\nBOOK HERE\nJoin us on Intern
 ational Women's Day for a special talk given by Janet Wolff.\n\n'Eleanor R
 athbone – the MP for refugees.'\n\nThis talk is a personal reflection on
  aspects of Eleanor Rathbone’s life and work\, seen through moments in m
 y own family history. Her political work on behalf of refugees and of ‘e
 nemy alien’ internees in Britain in the 1930s and early 1940s had been n
 oted and appreciated by my father\, a refugee from Germany in the late 193
 0s\, who spent a year in an Isle of Man internment camp. I grew up knowing
  her name\, and hearing her praise. But I did not then know anything about
  the work she is more celebrated for\, specifically her role in promoting 
 family allowances and other feminist causes. Later she re-appeared in anot
 her connection\, as collaborator and ally of Ernest Simon in Parliament on
  questions of housing. I discovered this link after I found myself living 
 in what had been Simon’s family home in south Manchester\, and became fa
 scinated by the family’s lives and liberal and engaged political activit
 ies. In my recent book\, Austerity Baby\, a kind of family history and me
 moir\, Eleanor Rathbone turned out to be a recurring character.\n\nJanet W
 olff is Professor Emerita of Cultural Sociology at the University of Manch
 ester\, where she directed the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in th
 e Arts from 2008 to 2010. She returned to Manchester\, her home town\, in 
 2006. Before that\, she taught at the University of Leeds\; the University
  of Rochester\, New York\, where she was Director of the Program in Visual
  and Cultural Studies\; and Columbia University\, where she was Associate 
 Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of the Arts. She is the author of 
 seven books on art history and cultural theory. Her most recent book\, Au
 sterity Baby\, combines memoir\, family history\, trans-Atlantic reflectio
 ns\, and visual imagery.\n\nFree event\, but booking is required.\n\nBOOK 
 HERE\n\n&nbsp\;
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LOCATION:Victoria Gallery & Museum\, Ashton Street\, University of Liverpoo
 l\, Liverpool\, L69 3DR\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom
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