women

Federn, Marietta aka Etta 1883- 1951

Battlescarred — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:29:50 +0000

Etta Federn was born in 1883 in Vienna, the youngest daughter of an assimilated Jewish family. She was the daughter of the suffragette Ernestine Federn and the doctor Salomon Federn and the sister of Paul, who became an analyst, Karl, who became a lawyer and writer, and Walter who became a journalist. She had an education on an equal footing with their brothers.

Swazi textile workers to resume strike

Ed — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:05:58 +0000

Workers agreed to give STEA and the government 48 hours before resuming the strike action. SMAWU President Alex Fakudze explained that workers suspended the strike last week hoping that STEA would be ready to negotiate a better deal, but failed to do so. The meeting held at Salesian sports ground was attended by about five hundred textile workers, mostly women.

Workers strike and clash with police in Swaziland

Ed — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:25:35 +0000

Over 16,000, mostly female, workers have been on strike since March 3rd with workers participating in marches confronting police using clubs and teargas. At least a dozen have been reported injured. 93 percent voted for strike action, while six percent voted against and one abstained.

Vera Drake, dir. Mike Leigh, 2004. Film review – Tom Jennings

Tom Jennings — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:15:43 +0000

Dilemmas of a Bleeding Heart

Documentary representations of British and European Muslim women. Essay review

Tom Jennings — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:01:51 +0000

Breaking Cover

In The Cut - review

Tom Jennings — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:13:17 +0000

A Cut Above?

Dancehall Dreams by Tom Jennings (2004). Music review – Tom Jennings

Tom Jennings — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:36:52 +0000

Dancehall Dreams by Tom Jennings

Michaelis, Margaret born Margaret Gross

Battlescarred — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:07:04 +0000

Margaret Michaelis’s prowess as a photographer has been hidden away until recently. Recent exhibitions in Canberra, Australia in 1988 and 2005 and in Valencia, Spain in 2005 have begun to dispel this cloud of obscurity.

Estorach, Soledad

Battlescarred — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:05:34 +0000

Soledad Estorach Esteri was born on the 6th February 1915 at the small village of Albatarrech near Lerida.

Silva Cruz, Maria, 1915-1936

Battlescarred — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:43:25 +0000

Maria was born into a family of day labourers and charcoal burners in the impoverished village of Casas Viejas in Andalucia on 20 April 1915.

Her father Juan Silva Gonzalez and her uncle Jeronimo were in the CNT. Her grandmother read anarchist novels out loud to her as a young girl.