Femifesta? Reflections on writing a feminist memoir and a feminist manifesto

ABSTRACT

This is a reflective account of the publication of two books in the same year (2016): Reclaiming Feminism: Challenging Everyday Misogyny and Feminist Manifesto for Education. The former is a popular but scholarly memoir, and the latter is an academic text for sociology and education. It was never my intention to publish one, let alone, two books but I was spurred to do so by the prevailing socio-political and cultural climate: what I now see clearly as everyday misogyny.

KEYWORDS:

• Feminism
• Gender
• Education
• Misogyny
• Patriarchy

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes on contributor

Miriam David is Professor Emerita of Sociology of Education at UCL IOE. She has an international reputation for her published research on families, gender and education across the life course. Her lifelong interest has been on women as mothers, daughters and educators. She has recently published a memoir of her life as an academic and activist entitled Reclaiming Feminism: challenging everyday misogyny (Bristol: Policy Press, 2016) and she has written A Feminist Manifesto for Education (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016) based on her European Union-funded research on challenging gender violence for children and young people by training professionals and educators.