Feminism And Citizenship

This episode is a recording of UCL's "More than the right to vote: feminism and citizenship" event, held on 17 February. The panel includes: Professor Sasha Roseneil (chair), UCL Pro-Provost (Equality & Inclusion) (Chair) Dr Victoria Showunmi, UCL IOE Professor Joyce Harper, UCL Institute for Women's Health Professor Ann Phoenix, UCL IOE Event information: Despite the long struggle for women’s suffrage, which was finally won in Britain on equal terms to men in 1928, the right to vote did not grant women fully equal access to political decision-making. Although there have been significant changes over the past four decades, women remain under-represented in politics throughout the world. Moreover, political citizenship is just one dimension of citizenship. Feminist scholars have argued for an understanding of citizenship as multi-dimensional, encompassing not just the terrain of politics, but also economic citizenship, social citizenship, intimate, sexual and bodily citizenship, and religious and cultural citizenship. In this panel, academics from across UCL discuss the unfinished business of securing full membership and belonging of society and its institutions for all women. The panel aimed to shine a light on the research of feminist scholars, open up understandings of the multi-dimensional aspects of citizenship, and provide a space to discuss the continued consequences of women’s exclusion to full membership and belonging of society and its institutions.  Panellists each gave a short talk, followed by cross panel discussion, with an audience Q&A. This podcast is brought to you by UCL Public Policy, UCL Grand Challenge of Justice & Equality and RIGE Comms, as part of UCL's #StandWithHope campaign, which aims to generate reflection on the history of the women’s suffrage movement in the UK, as well as generate debate and encourage UCL’s communities to share their stories and views on the inequalities that remain and what needs to change to create a truly equal society today. Join the conversation using #StandwithHope. To access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/more-right-vote-feminism-and-citizenship Date of episode recording: 2022-02-17T00:00:00Z Duration: 01:00:13 Language of episode: English Presenter: Professor Sasha Roseneil Guests: Dr Victoria Showunmi, UCL IOE; Professor Joyce Harper, UCL Institute for Women's Health; Professor Ann Phoenix, UCL IOE Producer: Evie Calder