Our Aims
Bluestocking is an online journal that investigates the intellectual and artistic achievements of women throughout history. In The Second Sex, de Beauvoir (1949) argued that young women lack the stimulus of emulation in the pursuit of knowledge. Many would attribute this lack to restrictions placed upon women in history, and harbour the impression that these restrictions subsequently prevented women from achieving intellectually and artistically. In reality, womens involvement in the progress of all disciplines has been robust, and their influence only later discredited or stifled. Bluestocking acts as a base for critical and insightful research into the work of female thinkers, raising the profile of women as major actors in the history of ideas.
Our Team
- The March 2011 team
Founder: Mona Sakr
Editor: Hannah Lee
Humanities Editor: Urmilla Nakkeeran
Arts Editor: Gitanjali Joseph
Science Editor: Frankee Bryant
Head of Publicity: Sarah Parker
Finance: Monika Kreile
Previous Editors: Raffaella Tomassi, Leila Molana-Allen, Kate Bowden, Rebecca Gregory, Monika Kreile
Previous Team Members: Chloe McIvor, Signy Gutnick-Allen, Helen Lochead, Katy Routh, Jamie Anderson, Victoria Flynn, Catherine Reeves, Anusha Ravi, Kate Kettle, Katherine Cross, Amy Waite, Jack Coombs, Nichola Davis, Jade A. Louch, Jennie Saywell, Gaia Donati, Janina Cordes
If you were a member of the Bluestocking team and your name isn’t listed above, please let us know so we can add you to the list. Email bluestocking.editor@gmail.com
Our Patrons
Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE
Baroness Greenfield is Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain (the first woman to hold that position) and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, where she leads a multi-disciplinary team investigating neurodegenerative disorders. In addition she is Director of the Oxford Centre for the Science of the Mind, exploring the physical basis of consciousness.
Her books include “The Human Brain: A Guided Tour” (1997), “The Private Life of the Brain” (2000), and “Tomorrow’s People: How 21st Century Technology Is Changing the Way We Think and Feel” (2003) and “‘ID’ – The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century” published in May 2008 by Hodder Publishing. She has spun off four companies from her research, made a diverse contribution to print and broadcast media, and led a Government report on “Women In Science”. She has received 29 Honorary Degrees, Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (2000), a non-political Life Peerage (2001) as well as the Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur (2003). In 2006 she was installed as Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University and voted ‘Honorary Australian of the Year’. In 2007 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Nicola Beauman
Nicola Beauman is the founder of Persephone Books. Persephone mainly prints previously neglected fiction and non- fiction written by women, highlighting the literary talents of authors who were not granted the recognition that they deserved within their own eras. Nicola’s first book A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-39 was first published by Virago in 1983 and was reissued in 2008 as a Persephone book. The Other Elizabeth Taylor was published in 2009, also by Persephone.
Nicola founded Persephone Books in 1998 and since then it has gathered dedicated followers from all over the world. The Bluestocking team highly recommend that you follow our link to the Persephone website (http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk) or visit the shop on Lambs Conduit Street in London. We promise that you will fall in love with what you find there.
Getting Involved
We’re always looking for new team members at Bluestocking. If you’re interested in getting involved, send an email to bluestocking.editor@gmail.com. Let us know:
1. Which position are you interested in?
2. What relevant experience do you have?
3. What do you believe the purpose/aim of Bluestocking to be?
4. How would you like to take Bluestocking forward?
If you would like to write for Bluestocking, please write a short proposal (c. 150 words) for an article and send it to bluestocking.editor@gmail.com. Before you get going, take a look at the Writing Guidelines that we offer.
Support Us
Bluestocking is a non-commercial educational enterprise. The start-up funding for Bluestocking was kindly provided by The Big Boost. However, we now rely on the generosity of individuals and grant-making organisations in order to be able to afford the running costs of the project.
If you would like to help Bluestocking in a crucial way, please consider making a donation and becoming a Friend of Bluestocking. All money donated will be used for essential activities (such as website maintenance and events). As a Friend, you will receive newsletters about each issue, personalised invitations to all of our events, and reserved places at these events. You will also have our eternal gratitude!
To become a Friend, please send your name and details, and a cheque to:
Monika Kreile
Linacre College
Oxford
OX1 3JA
If you would like more information about donations, please contact Hannah Lee via email:
bluestocking.editor@gmail.com.
