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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: Behind the Headlines | #MeToo - Then and Now
Description: Recorded March 7, 2018.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day The Trinity Long Room Hub partnered with the Institute of Irish Studies in Liverpool University to discuss if and how the position of women in society has changed over the century.
Professor Susan Cahill
‘Trust Women, Listen to Women: Waking the Feminists, Repeal the Eighth, and the Politics of Storytelling’
The #MeToo social media phenomenon has created an unprecedented platform for women’s voices calling out systemic sexual harassment in the entertainment industry and beyond. In Ireland, the Waking the Feminists movement (#WTF ) loudly queried the exclusion of women from Irish th...