Housing, Culture and Women's Citizenship in Britain, c.1945 to the present

该项目将发展和扩大目前AHRC项目“英国的女权主义、文化和妇女生活，1945年至2015年”所产生的影响活动。该项目所依据的研究详细考察了妇女生活与女权主义之间的关系，特别是在文化领域内。这项工作的结果表明，几代妇女都对她们在家庭领域和住房市场中的脆弱性感到关切。尤其是社会住房，已经成为一个关键问题。很明显，妇女经常带头争取更好的住房供应。此外，参与住房运动一直是工薪阶层妇女参与公民生活和影响政治变革的关键手段。与此同时，许多妇女对缺乏机会在社区内外表达她们对住房的看法或挑战住房提供者和政策制定者的议程和目标表示失望。人们认为，自大多数社会住房私有化以来，这一点变得更加困难。后续资金将帮助英格兰西北部的女租户表达她们的意见，并鼓励广泛的观众倾听和学习她们的经验。为了实现这一目标，我们将发展我们现有的AHRC项目所产生的影响活动。我们的项目创建了一个剧团，Delaney Theatre Group，为索尔福德塔楼的女性租户服务。这些妇女利用这个团体制作和表演了一部戏剧，这部戏剧借鉴了她们自1945年以来的日常生活经验，名为《甜蜜地唱驴》。我们项目的这一方面表明，文化参与为妇女提供了一种手段，使她们能够以她们认为有成就感的方式表达她们的关切和愿望，并增进她们的情感福祉。该剧向包括住房工作者和政策制定者在内的约240人演出，观众反馈表明，演出改变了观众对工薪阶层妇女为公民和文化生活做出积极贡献的能力的理解。我们建议利用后续资金进一步发展这项活动的影响，通过巡回演出《甜蜜地唱驴》到表示有兴趣举办演出的剧院和艺术节。我们还建议利用这种文化参与模式，让更多的妇女反思她们的住房经历。目前的AHRC项目广泛关注妇女与文化生活和女权主义的关系。后续资金将使参与者能够开展文化活动，特别侧重于他们对社会住房的体验和关切。这将通过扩大已建立的德莱尼剧院集团的成员来实现，包括更广泛的妇女，包括我们新的项目合作伙伴索尔福德妇女援助的客户。通过将戏剧集团的活动扩大到包括写作，该集团将继续编写和演出一部以妇女的社会住房经历为重点的新剧，该戏剧将利用在最初的AHRC项目期间创造的口述历史证词。最初的项目制定了旨在加强工人阶级妇女的文化和公民参与的战略。这些战略是与项目伙伴和影子内阁成员协商制定的。后续资金将使我们能够制定更有针对性的政策建议，重点是如何鼓励女性租户参与社区的设计、维护和治理。这是及时的，因为在2017年6月格伦费尔大厦灾难之后，地方和国家对社会住房的提供和治理感到担忧。后续资金将使我们能够接受邀请，撰写并向索尔福德市市长和影子内阁提交关于这一主题的两份政策文件。

This project will develop and extend the impact activities created by the current AHRC project 'Feminism, culture and women's lives in Britain, c.1945-c.2015'. The study on which this project builds examines in detail the relationship between women's lives and feminism, specifically within the cultural sphere. Findings from this work demonstrate that women across several generations share concerns about their vulnerability within the domestic sphere and housing market. Social housing, in particular, has emerged as a key concern. It has become clear that women have frequently taken a lead in campaigning for better housing provision. In addition, participation in housing campaigns has been a key means by which working-class women have engaged in civic life and affected political change. At the same time, many women expressed frustration at the lack of opportunities for them to express their views on housing, both within and beyond their neighbourhood, or to challenge the agenda and objectives of housing providers and policymakers. This is felt to have become much harder since the privatisation of most social housing. Follow-on Funding will assist women tenants in north-west England to express their views and encourage a wide range of audiences to listen to and learn from their experiences.To achieve this, we will develop the impact activities created by our existing AHRC project. Our project created a theatre group, the Delaney Theatre Group, for women tenants in a Salford tower block. The women used this group to produce and perform a play which drew on their experiences of everyday life since 1945, entitled 'Sweetly Sings the Donkey'. This aspect of our project indicated that cultural participation provides a means for women to articulate their concerns and aspirations in ways that they found fulfilling and which enhanced their emotional wellbeing. The play was performed to c.240 people, including housing workers and policymakers, and audience feedback indicated that the performance had altered spectators' understanding of working-class women's ability to make a positive contribution to civic and cultural life. We propose to use Follow-on Funding to further develop the impact of this activity by touring 'Sweetly Sings the Donkey' to theatres and arts festivals which have expressed interest in hosting a performance.We also propose to use this model of cultural participation to enable a larger group of women to reflect on their housing experiences. The current AHRC project has focused broadly on women's relationship to cultural life and feminism. Follow-on Funding would enable participants to develop cultural activities that focus specifically on their experience of, and concerns about, social housing. This will be achieved by expanding the membership of the established Delaney Theatre Group to include a wider range of women, including clients of our new project partner Salford Women's Aid. By broadening the Theatre Group's activities to include writing, the Group will go on to write and perform a new play focused on women's experiences of social housing, which will draw on oral history testimonies created during the original AHRC project.The original project developed strategies designed to enhance working-class women's cultural and civic participation. These strategies were devised in consultation with project partners and with members of the Shadow Cabinet. Follow-on Funding will enable us to develop more targeted policy recommendations which focus on how to encourage women tenants' participation in the design, maintenance and governance of their neighbourhoods. This is timely given local and national concern over the provision and governance of social housing following the Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017. Follow-on Funding will allow us to accept invitations to write and present two policy papers on this subject to the City of Salford Mayor and to the Shadow Cabinet.