This new exhibition uncovers valuable life stories as women from working class backgrounds reflect upon their experiences within a large comprehensive school. These marginalised voices give personal accounts which expose overarching themes and experiences, including gender discrimination and a rigid educational establishment. They also consider how the expectations imposed upon them during these years, to a degree, shaped their early adult lives. Many tell how later in life they went on to achieve success, which was achieved despite, rather than because of, their secondary school experiences.
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An all important opportunity for marginalised women’s voices to be heard, I would love to see this!
Really looking forward to this for so many reasons! I was a school girl in Bristol in the 1980s. I attended a school that was co-ed but had previously been an all boys Grammar…. Some of the teachers (particularly science and maths) appeared to resent having to teach girls. As a loud and uncompromising girl I didn’t spend that much time in SPAG or language lessons as I was very often excluded /made to stand in the corridor!
Really looking forward to this for so many reasons! I was a school girl in Bristol in the 1980s. I attended a school that was co-ed but had previously been an all boys Grammar…. Some of the teachers (particularly science and maths) appeared to resent having to teach girls. As a loud and uncompromising girl I didn’t spend that much time in SPAG or language lessons as I was very often excluded /made to stand in the corridor!
I look forward to hearing these stories and to reflect on my experiences growing up in Ireland. Thank Wendy for voices that would have gone unheard.