Article
Feminist Review (1983) 15, 76–80. doi:10.1057/fr.1983.34
Women's studies: women studying or studying women?
Liz Kelly is doing research for a Ph.D. at Essex University on womens experiences of male violence. She has been involved in local womens politics in Norwich for the past 10 years, particularly in the support group of the refuge for battered women. She was one of the women who initiated womens studies in Norwich.
Ruth Pearson is an economist who has researched and worked with women in the third world for a number of years. She is an active member of Norwich Womens Studies Collective and active in other local womens groups. She is now studying the impact of Multinational Companies on womens employment in Europe.
We would like to thank Lin Shaw for discussing womens studies in the WEA with us, the individual women from NWSC who shares their ideas/experiences and read the first drafts of this article and all the members of the collective.
Interview material from women participants in the Norwich Women's Studies Collective has had to be omitted due to lack of space.
Liz Kelly and Ruth Pearson
