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August 5, 2022

Spare Rib: 50 years since the groundbreaking feminist magazine first hit the streets – its legacy still inspires women

Laurel Forster, University of Portsmouth

Run by a collective of women and covering both the political and personal, Spare Rib was unlike anything before it.

June 27, 2022

What it really meant to be punk in Britain

Ewa Mazierska, University of Central Lancashire and Tony Rigg, University of Central Lancashire

The sounds and attitude of punk were all about not conforming to the norm and rebelling against all that came before it.

Two icons of the postwar sexual revolution have recently died. Left, Doris Day in 1955 London and right, Peggy Lipton in a promo photo from The Mod Squad, which first aired in 1968. Left: (AP/Bob Dear) / Right: The Mod Squad

May 15, 2019

Remembering Doris Day and Peggy Lipton: Icons of white femininity

Rebecca Sullivan, University of Calgary

Doris Day and Peggy Lipton, two very different icons of the postwar sexual revolution have recently died. What are their lasting legacies of white femininity?

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Laurel Forster
Reader in Cultural History, University of Portsmouth
Rebecca Sullivan
Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Calgary
Ewa Mazierska
Professor of Film Studies, University of Central Lancashire
Tony Rigg
Lecturer in Music Industry Management, University of Central Lancashire

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