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2009-2010 Events

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Ongoing Events

Rooms of Our Own - Lucy Cavendish

Open daily noon to 5pm between October 17-31; late night opening to 8pm on Oct 21.

Charting the development of education for women over the last three centuries, the Rooms of Our Own exhibition will also feature cartoons, correspondence and documents from the College Archives. It will look at the women in the 17th Century who fantasised about the possibility of women's education through to the men and women who scorned and parodied it. Concluding the exhibition will be the vision of the women who sought to create a space in Cambridge for women to study at the time in their lives which suits them.


Before any women's colleges existed in England, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), imagined them in The Female Academy (1662) and The Convent of Pleasure (1668). Despite her elevated social status, 'Mad Madge' was mocked by men and women for her fascination with science and her desire to publish in her own name. The exhibition will start with her fantasies of a female college and go on to deliver many examples of the mockery, hostility and indifference encountered by those daring seriously to propose higher education for women who, many believed, should be concentrating entirely on their proper roles of wife and mother. Punch cartoons lampooning women's move into what was seen as the male preserve of education will be on display as will cartoons, correspondence and documents from the archives of Bedford College and Lucy Cavendish College. Lucy Cavendish, founded in 1965, was the last mainstream women's college to be founded.

Details on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=159595439327&index=1

Easter Term News

Cambridge University Students' Union Council approves Women's Union letter to Varsity Editors concerning the tabloid pullout in the Easter I issue of Varsity.

Read the letter and CUSU motion. [pdf]

Cambridge Reclaim the Night

[facebook group]

Sunday 3rd May 2009

Thank you everyone who made it down to Reclaim the Night. It was absolutely brilliant, with a great atmosphere both on the march and in King's Chapel, and over 100 people coming along!

We also raised £107 for Cambridge Women's Aid, which works to violence against women and children in the home. Well done! If you want to be on the organising committee for next year's march, get in touch with Natalie.