The book: Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right by Robin Morgan

Where: The Feminist Library, 5 Westminster Bridge Rd, London, SE1 7XW

Nearest tubes: Lambeth North, Elephant and Castle, Waterloo

Details of future books/dates are on the book group website: http://londonfeministnetwork.org.uk/groups/feminist-book-group

The book: Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis

Where: The Feminist Library, 5 Westminster Bridge Rd, London, SE1 7XW

Nearest tubes: Lambeth North, Elephant and Castle, Waterloo

Details of future books/dates are on the book group website: http://londonfeministnetwork.org.uk/groups/feminist-book-group

6.30pm-8.30pm, Tuesday 3rd July

Monthly members’ meeting (usually on the first Tuesday of every month) – come to find out what we’re up to and catch up with some London-based feminists. Please see the Forum for the agenda.

6.30pm-8.30pm, Tuesday 5th June

SPEAKERS: Dr Melanie Williams and Dr Eylem Atakav, Dept of Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia

Melanie will talk about women filmmakers in British cinema in an attempt to making invisible women visible and re-writing women’s film history. Eylem will be talking about women in television adverts in Turkey, referring to gender politics, Islam and politics.

DATE/TIME: 2.30pm til 4.30pm, Sat 17 March

Please RSVP to Jennifer for venue details and so we can confirm numbers: jenniferdrew@fastmail.fm

LFN feminars are women-only, all women are welcome. Read about previous events on the feminars page.

Aims

The Planning Day follows on from the very successful first planning day held in 2011 year, which helped us to think about priorities and strategies, and to ensure a really active and fruitful year.  The kinds of things this Planning Day will address are:

1. Provide information about the exciting things LFN has been doing: monthly meetings, Yahoo list and online forum, feminars, protests, fundraising events, book group, conferences, panels and workshops, stalls, and a fantastic Reclaim the Night march and rally
2. Offer a chance to reflect on where we are, where we are going, where we can improve, what we want to achieve
3. Agree on some priorities and activities for 2012
4. Offer the chance for members to get involved, join groups, take on responsibilities, share, learn, form friendships and generally experience the joy of women-only feminist activism!

We aim to make the day as inclusive and welcoming as possible to all LFN members in all our diversity.  The facilitators will aim to ensure that everyone has a chance to share their ideas and views.

Information and reserving a place

The venue can accommodate up to 30 delegates.  If more than 30 women wish to attend, we will set up a reserve list. A few places will be reserved for members of LFN sub-groups to enable all groups to feed into the process. PLEASE JOIN THE YAHOO LIST OR FORUM FOR INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO REGISTER YOUR ATTENDANCE.

Thank you to all the women involved in organising this event.

The book: Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Where: The Feminist Library, 5 Westminster Bridge Rd, London, SE1 7XW

Nearest tubes: Lambeth North, Elephant and Castle, Waterloo

Details of future books/dates are on the book group website: http://londonfeministnetwork.org.uk/groups/feminist-book-group

The book: A History of Women in the West: Emerging Feminism from Revolution to World War by Geneviève Fraisse

Where: The Feminist Library, 5 Westminster Bridge Rd, London, SE1 7XW

Nearest tubes: Lambeth North, Elephant and Castle, Waterloo

Details of future books/dates are on the book group website: http://londonfeministnetwork.org.uk/groups/feminist-book-group

The book: Who Cooked the Last Supper? by Rosalind Miles

Where: The Feminist Library, 5 Westminster Bridge Rd, London, SE1 7XW

Nearest tubes: Lambeth North, Elephant and Castle, Waterloo

Details of future books/dates are on the book group website: http://londonfeministnetwork.org.uk/groups/feminist-book-group

“Lynne Harne’s feminar – and her latest book ‘Violent Fathering and the Risks to Children’ – are most timely given dominant views within the Family Law System and society in general that men who commit violence against their current/ex female partners must continue to have child contact post-separation. The book is the result of Lynne Harne’s research on violent fathers; their justifications for perpetrating violence and reasons why they instigate pro-(male)contact post-separation with the children who have witnessed their fathers inflict violence on their mothers.

This feminar is most timely given the Government’s Legal Aid Bill is currently making its way through Parliament and, if passed, will have a devastating effect on women and their children who have been subjected/witnessed intimate male terrorism. The Legal Aid Bill effectively rescinds women’s and children’s right not to be subjected to systemic intimate male terrorism and male control.”

DATE: Wednesday, 11th January 2012
TIME: 7.00pm-8.30pm.
Central London (WC1) – The venue is fully accessible (ground floor with ramp, no steps)
Refreshments will be available. Donations towards venue costs most welcome. LFN Feminars are women-only.

Please RSVP to jennifer.milligan@btinternet.com for venue details and to confirm your attendance.