'Clare at 50: Hope and experience in a postfeminist age'
by Professor Polly O'Hanlon (1972)
A 50th Anniversary Lecture
I will be offering some of my own recollections of Clare in the early 1970s, and comparing our hopes and assumptions then with the very different ways we think about gender equality in higher education in the present day. Across half a century of rapid social change, and the much more complex ‘postfeminist’ world that we now live in, I’ll be asking: does our student experience from the early 1970s have any relevance at all in the present day?
- Professor Polly O'Hanlon
Princeton Graphic Arts Collection: The effigy of the female cyclist hung by the protestors
Princeton Graphic Arts Collection: The effigy of the female cyclist hung by the protestors
Getty images/Hulton Archive: ‘Get you to Girton, Beatrice, get you to NewnhamThere’s no place for you maids’
Getty images/Hulton Archive: ‘Get you to Girton, Beatrice, get you to NewnhamThere’s no place for you maids’
BBC News
BBC News
Cambridge News: 1948: the Queen Mother takes a degree
Cambridge News: 1948: the Queen Mother takes a degree
A Mem Court room, much improved
A Mem Court room, much improved
Mem Court, its character as a memorial to the fallen of WW1 still intact
Mem Court, its character as a memorial to the fallen of WW1 still intact
The screens on ‘H’ staircase, in more austere days
The screens on ‘H’ staircase, in more austere days
Cambridge News: Garden House ‘riot’ 1970
Cambridge News: Garden House ‘riot’ 1970
The Hall: chairs now, but benches then!
The Hall: chairs now, but benches then!
Varsity: Ulster’s ‘Troubles’ on Trinity Street, 1968
Varsity: Ulster’s ‘Troubles’ on Trinity Street, 1968
Nursery Action Group outside the Senate House, 1977
Nursery Action Group outside the Senate House, 1977
Prams vs. lawns, King’s, 1970s
Prams vs. lawns, King’s, 1970s
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