Tag: Matchwomen
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Matchwoman or vampire?
We are back LIVE at UCL Anthropology dept on Tues Mar 7 with Dr Louise Raw delivering a Special Lecture for International Women’s Day: ‘Matchwoman or vampire? Strikes, sisterhood and the Victorian fear of female sexuality’. When the Bryant and May Matchwomen went on strike in 1888, it caused outrage. A ‘respectable’ woman’s place was…