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Poster for What Women Want exhibition
Greenham Common leaflet, 1980s
Women for Life on Earth
NUWSS demonstration, 13 June 1908
Postcard, Christina Bloom
(c) The Women’s Library
Film stills from A Woman's Guide to Changing the World
East London Schools Consortium
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What Women Want: Stories from The Women's Library
Thursday 1 May - Saturday 27 September 2008
Closed Saturdays in August
Entrance free
What have women fought for, longed for and achieved? How much have their aspirations changed?
90 years on from the award of the parliamentary vote to women, What Women Want: Stories from The Women's Library uses historic photographs, documents, posters and ephemera to bring to
life the struggle for political representation and equality at work,
and reveal unexpected insights into the worlds of leisure, beauty and
the home.
The exhibition included an impressive display of original suffrage
banners marking the 100th anniversary of the March of the Great Women,
when up to 15,000 women paraded through the streets of London to demand
the right to vote. Visitors were also able to listen to memories of women
involved in the suffrage campaigns, originally recorded in the 1970s.
There was also exciting new work made in collaboration with local community groups and university students. Can I? I Can by
intergenerational arts group Magic Me considers the barriers women have
faced and their achievements in overcoming them. Poetic captions by
London Metropolitan University students accompanied many of the items;
zines (self-published magazines) on the theme Women Making History have been made by local people working with the Museum in Docklands. And the rousing film A Woman's Guide to Changing the World,
made by young women from six East London schools, offers an
inspirational look at women's campaigns in the past and their legacy
for today.
External links (opens in a new window)
- Magic Me
- BA Creative Writing at London Metropolitan University
- Museum in Docklands
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