Feminism Between the Waves: A Political and Cultural History of the Six Point Group

六点小组（SPG）是英国在两次世界大战期间领先的性别平等组织。这个项目将从伦敦经济学院妇女图书馆的档案中重建SPG的历史，并丰富我们对女权主义所谓的“第一”和“第二”浪潮之间的女权主义运动的理解。伦敦政治经济学院妇女图书馆（TWL@LSE）是欧洲最古老、最广泛的妇女历史收藏。从妇女选举权运动发展而来，现在包括60，000多本书籍和小册子，3，000本小册子，500多个档案和5，000件博物馆物品，包括照片，海报，徽章，横幅，纺织品和陶瓷。继2018年“投票100”庆祝活动取得巨大成功后，TWL@LSE正在为2028年《平等特许经营法》的百年纪念做准备（赋予女性与男性同等的投票权），并将其两次世界大战之间的女权主义收藏品确定为目录增强、数字化和提高知名度的优先领域，例如，在线资源和展览。这项研究项目将导致第一次全面研究的SPG（1921年-1982年）一年的历史，并恢复查看女权主义运动的连续历史，在此期间，女权主义被传统上认为已经“崩溃”或在1970年代随着妇女解放运动而“重新出现”之前，它“消退”了。在TWL@LSE工作了相当长的一段时间，获奖者将从SPG档案和SPG与其他女权主义组织（如英国大学妇女联合会和全国妇女公务员联合会）的档案中重建SPG的历史。他们还将查阅TWL@LSE以外的档案，例如全国妇女理事会（伦敦大都会档案馆）和英国报纸档案馆。戴尔·斯彭德（Dale Spender）在1983年的一句名言中说：“本世纪一直有一场妇女运动。这个项目将使斯彭德的主张更加可信，并使继续塑造我们对妇女历史的看法的主导性“浪潮”叙事复杂化。获奖者将拥有历史和档案研究方面的经验和技能，并对当代女权主义和妇女历史感兴趣。随着项目的发展，他们将有机会塑造研究议程，但在这一阶段确定的指示性研究问题包括：什么是SPG的目标和成就，以及这些是如何在其61年的存在演变？在保护少数小组与其他女权主义者和妇女组织之间可以发现哪些联系？SPG采用了哪些战略来推进其目标，并在妇女运动中就竞争性职位进行谈判？SPG的历史是否为今天的女权主义思想和实践提供了有用的批判和政治工具？除了博士论文，该项目的主要成果将是：为伦敦政治经济学院图书馆的活动和展览计划做出贡献（例如，就他们的研究发表演讲;组织一次关于两次世界大战之间女权主义的活动;策划SPG的在线展览）;为TWL@LSE的数字化计划做出贡献（例如，通过精选有关SPG的材料，纳入其关于两次世界大战之间女权主义的数字收藏）;协助TWL@LSE为2028年《平等特许经营法》百年纪念做准备。学生支持和产出：监督团队（克莱;托马斯;墨菲）将定期在NTU，UoB或TWL@LSE与学生会面。克莱将确保该奖项的保持器是融入南大的研究文化在艺术与人文，并通过博士学校（包括在博士学位加专业发展课程计划的招生），以及M4 C的过程和培训，并支持他们在密切的会议，影响活动和事件的参与。这些可能包括但不限于活动或

The Six Point Group (SPG) was Britain's leading gender equality organisation in the interwar years. This project will reconstruct the history of the SPG from its archive at the Women's Library at London School of Economics and enrich our understanding of feminist campaigning between feminism's so-called 'first' and 'second' waves. The Women's Library at LSE (TWL@LSE) is the oldest and most extensive collection of women's history in Europe. Developed from the women's suffrage movement, it now includes over 60,000 books and pamphlets, 3,000 pamphlets, over 500 archives, and 5,000 museum objects including photographs, posters, badges, banners, textiles, and ceramics. Following the hugely successful 'Vote 100' celebrations in 2018, TWL@LSE is now preparing for the centenary in 2028 of the Equal Franchise Act (which gave women voting rights on the same terms as men) and has identified its interwar feminism collections as a priority area for catalogue enhancement, digitisation, and profile-raising through, for example, online resources and exhibition.This research project will result in the first comprehensive study of the SPG (1921-1982) across its 61-year history and restore to view a continuous history of feminist campaigning in a period during which feminism is conventionally believed to have 'collapsed' or 'subsided' prior to its 're-emergence' in the 1970s with the Women's Liberation Movement. Working for substantial periods of time at TWL@LSE the award-holder will reconstruct the history of the SPG from the SPG archive and the archives of other feminist organisations the SPG interacted with (e.g. the British Federation of University Women and the National Federation of Women Civil Servants) also held by TWL@LSE. They will also consult archives outside TWL@LSE, for example the National Council of Women (London Metropolitan Archives) and the British Newspaper Archive. Dale Spender famously stated in 1983 that: 'There's always been a women's movement this century'. This project will give credence to Spender's claim and complicate the dominant 'wave' narrative that continues to shape our ideas of women's history.The award-holder will have previous experience and skills in historical and archival research and an active interest in contemporary feminisms and women's history. They will have the chance to shape the research agenda as the project evolves, but indicative research questions identified at this stage include:What were the goals and achievements of the SPG, and how did these evolve over its 61 years' existence?What connections can be identified between the SPG and other feminist and women's organisations?What strategies did the SPG use, to advance its aims and to negotiate competing positions within the women's movement?Does the history of the SPG provide critical and political tools useful for feminist thinking and practice today?In addition to the PhD thesis, key outputs of this project will be:Contributing to the events and exhibition programme at LSE Library (e.g. by giving a talk on their research; organising an event on interwar feminism; curating on online exhibition on the SPG); Contributing to the digitisation programme at TWL@LSE (e.g. by curating a selection of materials about the SPG for inclusion in its digital collection on interwar feminism);Assisting in TWL@LSE's preparations for the Equal Franchise Act centenary in 2028.Student Support and Output:The supervisory team (Clay; Thomas; Murphy) will meet with the student regularly at NTU, UoB or TWL@LSE. Clay will ensure that the award holder is integrated into NTU's research culture in Arts & Humanities and through the Doctoral School (including enrolment on the Doctorate Plus programme of professional developmental courses), as well as M4C processes and training, and support their participation in germane conferences, impact activities, and events. These may include, but are not limited to, activities or