Sally Alexander
Sally Alexander | |
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| Born | 1943 (age 80–81) |
| Alma mater | Ruskin College, Oxford University College London |
| Occupation(s) | Historian Feminist activist |
| Employer | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Spouse | divorced 1968 John Thaw |
| Children | Abigail Thaw |
Sally A. Alexander, FRHistS (born 1943) is an English historian and feminist activist.
Career
Alexander completed a diploma in history at Ruskin College, Oxford, before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in the subject at University College London. She helped to organise the United Kingdom's first national Women's Liberation Movement conference at Ruskin College in 1970, and was involved in several London Women's Liberation Workshops as well as the Night Cleaners Campaign (1970–72). A founding editor of the History Workshop Journal (established in 1976), she taught in the Extra-Mural Department of the University of London in the 1970s; as of 2018 is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Goldsmiths, University of London. Aside from feminist history, her academic interests include the history of other social movements, of memory, and of psychoanalysis in Britain.[1][2]
Personal life
Alexander has a daughter, Abigail Thaw, with former husband John Thaw.[3] Her granddaughter Molly Whitmey made a cameo in the Endeavour episode Oracle (series 7, episode 1, broadcast 1 February 2020) as the younger version of her.[4]
Activism and legacy
Alexander is portrayed by Keira Knightley in the 2020 British comedy-drama Misbehaviour about the 1970 Miss World competition that Alexander and other members of the Women's Liberation movement disrupted with flour bombs.[5]
Selected publications
- Becoming a Woman: And Other Essays in 19th and 20th Century Feminist History (London: Virago, 1994).
- (Co-edited with Barbara Taylor) History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
References
- ^ "Professor Emeritus Sally Alexander", Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
- ^ "People: Sally Alexander", British Library
- ^ "Sally Alexander". Ruskin College Oxford. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
- ^ "It's a family affair: John Thaw's daughter Abigail stars in Endeavour's new series 7 with daughter Molly playing her mother Sally..." Ox In A Box. 4 February 2020.
- ^ Moorhead, Joanna (26 February 2020). "'I heard the signal – and threw my flour bombs': why the 1970 Miss World protest is still making waves". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
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