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Students at a local girls' school interviewed City workers about women and the sex industry to create a vibrant and passionate film about women's activism.
The thirty-minute work, A woman's guide to changing the world, also includes a 'suffragette' protest in Trafalgar Square. It was made in collaboration with film-maker Mary Mullen.
The film was the result of The Women’s Library’s second project with the East London Consortium, a state-independent partnership of six girls’ schools.
Students from each of the schools learnt about campaigning women, after which they considered the ways the campaigners had been represented, and researched more about their achievements.
Students from Channing School waved purple, white and green banners in Trafalgar Square as they recreated Emmeline Pankhurst's story, while the group from Skinners' Company's School staged a reconstruction Greenham Common in Stoke Newington's Clissold Park. They erected tents, displayed placards, and held hands around the park fence, marshalling an impressive supporting cast of fellow pupils!
The film was premièred in front of 250 people in October 2007 at the young women's conference, Women leading global change, where it received a warm reception. It is also being shown in The Women's Library's exhibition hall part of the 2008 What Women Want exhibition.
More information
-Source notes for women and suffrage
-Current events programme
-What Women Want 2008: Stories from The Women's Library
-Past learning projects
External Links (opens in a new window)
-Department for Children, Schools and Families
-Channing School
-Central Foundation Girls School
-Highbury Fields School
-Mulberry School for Girls
-Skinners' Company's School for Girls
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