Podcasts «Not for Want of Trying»

UNITED KINGDOM: GENDER EQUALITY HISTORY

Twelve episodes of the Women’s Legal Landmarks Project from 20 September to 22 November 2024

In the frame of the Women’s Legal Landmarks Project, «key events in women’s legal history during the Interwar years» are uncovered by experts. They also explain why these events still matter today.

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The Women’s Legal Landmarks Project is «a unique interdisciplinary collaboration involving feminist legal and history scholars engaging in the process of ‘landmarking’ key legal events, cases and statutes for women in the UK and Ireland». Women legal landmarks are «significant achievements marking an important stage or turning point in women’s engagement with law and law reform. Together the landmarks demonstrate, in a sustained and disciplined way, women’s agency and activism in the achievement of law reform and justice». In 2024, the anthology of Rosemary Auchmuty, Erika Rackley and Mari Takayanagi (ed.), Women’s Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years: Not for Want of Trying (Bloomsbury 2024) has been published. In the same year, twelve podcasts on the same topic have been posted. In the podcasts, the following questions are examined: «What are the key legal landmarks for women? What role did women and feminists play in bringing them about? And what impact are they having on women today?».

Direct to the podcasts (https://womenslegallandmarks.podbean.com)