Focusing on the case study of women’s sports, Dr Rafaelle Nicholson shows how male control over women’s leisure lives increased in the 1990s.
In 1998, Natasha Walter wrote in The New Feminism: "Everywhere you look, you see individual women who are freer and more powerful than women have ever been before." Walter's vision of the 1990s was of a decade of "Girl Power" where women had made significant progress toward equality and freedom.
Were the 1990s as liberating a decade for women as Walter and her fellow "New Feminists" suggested? This seminar will attempt to address some of these questions by examining the 1990s through the lens of "leisure" – seen as one aspect of women's newfound freedom by Walter and others.
Speaker: Dr Rafaelle Nicholson
Event location
This event can be attended online via zoom or in person at the following location:
Room UG.05, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW
