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

六点小组（SPG）是两次世界大战期间英国领先的性别平等组织。该项目将从伦敦经济学院女性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。伦敦政治经济学院的女性图书馆（TWL@LSE）是欧洲最古老、最广泛的女性历史收藏。从妇女选举权运动发展而来，它现在包括6万多本书籍和小册子、3000本小册子、500多份档案和5000件博物馆藏品，包括照片、海报、徽章、横幅、纺织品和陶瓷。继2018年“Vote 100”庆祝活动取得巨大成功后，TWL@LSE现在正在为2028年的《平等选举权法案》（Equal Franchise Act）百年纪念做准备（该法案赋予女性与男性同等的投票权），并将其两次世界大战期间的女权主义收藏确定为目录改进、数字化和通过在线资源和展览等方式提高知名度的优先领域。该研究项目将首次对SPG（1921-1982）的61年历史进行全面研究，并重新审视女权主义运动的连续历史，在此期间，女权主义通常被认为在20世纪70年代随着妇女解放运动“重新出现”之前已经“崩溃”或“消退”。获奖者将在TWL@LSE工作很长一段时间，从SPG档案和与SPG互动的其他女权主义组织（例如英国大学妇女联合会和全国女公务员联合会）的档案中重建SPG的历史，这些组织也由TWL@LSE保存。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·斯彭德在1983年说过一句名言：“本世纪一直都有妇女运动。”这个项目将证实斯彭德的说法，并将继续塑造我们对女性历史观念的主流“浪潮”叙事复杂化。获奖者必须具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有积极的兴趣。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：SPG的目标和成就是什么，这些目标和成就在其61年的存在中是如何演变的？SPG和其他女权主义和妇女组织之间有什么联系？SPG使用了什么策略来推进其目标，并在妇女运动中谈判竞争地位？火炮队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，这个项目的主要产出将是：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，就他们的研究进行一次演讲，组织一次关于两次世界大战之间女权主义的活动，策划一次关于SPG的在线展览）；为TWL@LSE的数字化计划做出贡献（例如，通过策划有关SPG的精选材料，将其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筹备2028年《平等选举权法案》百年纪念活动。学生支持与产出：督导小组（Clay、Thomas、Murphy）将定期在南大、大华或TWL@LSE与学生会面。克莱将确保获奖者融入南洋理工大学的艺术与人文研究文化，通过博士学院（包括注册专业发展课程的博士+计划），以及M4C流程和培训，并支持他们参与相关会议，影响活动和事件。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