13.04.07– This week at the the Bluestocking Lounge:

 Imogen Crest wrote this e-mail to me this week: “

…I have an idea for some Bluestocking discussion as I came across a link that nearly had me in tears from the BBC Women’s Hour.  I think it’s important that women now know what the suffragettes did, I had no idea they went on such extreme hunger strikes to get heard.  It’s gross when you think how hard it was for those women at the coalface.  … The timeline is interesting, that women weren’t able to be mayor until 1907!

The section … has some audio and a slideshow which is effective from 1900-1909.  I also didn’t know suffragette was such a derogatory term to begin with. …The old photos are brilliant too.  Might as well celebrate their efforts.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/timeline/1900.shtml“

So for this week, our topic is very broad.  With the Women’s Movement in mind, share whatever you like on this theme.  Please comment below or post to category “BS 13.04.07 Women”