{"id":8039,"date":"2024-09-17T07:57:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T06:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=8039"},"modified":"2025-02-19T21:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:52:07","slug":"brand-new-podcast-not-for-want-of-trying-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/brand-new-podcast-not-for-want-of-trying-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Brand new podcast \u2013 \u2018Not for Want of Trying\u2019 \u2013 out now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join Erika Rackley<\/a>, Professor of Law at the Kent Law School<\/a>, University of Kent and Sharon Thompson, Professor of Law at Cardiff University as they talk to leading experts about key legal landmarks for women and why they still matter today<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u2018Not for Want of Trying\u2019 is a new podcast series that asks what happened after <\/em>some women got the vote in 1918. It explores the stories of the women who continued to fight back. Women who challenged the law that allowed them to be sacked just for getting married and a husband\u2019s control of the family home and children. The women who sat as the first MPs, judges and jurors. And who sought to protect children and young women from exploitative marriages, to provide women with financial and bodily autonomy and to improve women\u2019s status both within and outside the home.<\/p>\n

In this week\u2019s episode, Eduardo Reyes from the Law Society Gazette talks about the installation of the women\u2019s cloakrooms at the Law Society.<\/p>\n

Other episodes include Lady Hale talking about the guardianship of infants, Caroline Derry on the treatment of lesbianism in the criminal law, and Madelaine Davies on why lawyers should read Virginia Woolf.<\/p>\n

New episodes every Friday.<\/p>\n

Subscribe, follow and download now from\u00a0Apple<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Amazon Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Erika Rackley said \u2013 \u201cFor a long time the interwar years have been dismissed as a period of stasis for women in Britain, when feminism was in abeyance and little progress was achieved, this podcast series, and the book that inspires it, shows it was anything but. In fact, feminist silence in the interwar years turned out not to be silence at all\u201d.<\/p>\n

Find out more about the landmarks discussed in the podcast and the accompanying book \u2013 Women\u2019s Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years: Not for Want of Trying <\/em>on our website www.womenslegallandmarks.com<\/a><\/p>\n