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Powerful Women: a talk by Dr Finn Mackay

  • NST City 142-144 Above Bar Street Southampton, SO14 7DU United Kingdom (map)

To mark 100 years since the first women gained the right to vote in the UK, Nuffield Southampton Theatres are hosting Bungalow Café Festival - a season of events celebrating and lifting the voices of women.

In her 'Powerful Women' talk, Finn Mackay will be exploring the themes of women, power, politics and gender identity.

Finn Mackay is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England in Bristol. She is author of 'Radical Feminism: Activism in Movement' published by Palgrave Macmillan. A long time feminist activist, Finn founded the London Feminist Network in 2004 and revived Reclaim the Night London UK. She speaks and writes regularly on feminist theory and social justice issues, appearing on BBC Woman's Hour, The Moral Maze and writing in The Guardian and HuffPost UK amongst others; recently Finn delivered a TEDx talk on what is feminist about equality. Her current areas of research are masculinities and gender identities

45-minute talk, followed by opportunity for audience questions
£8 advance
Please note early start time