Feminist women wanted for PhD research.

rather than from Carly herself I mean

the one Dittany pasted from her department, rather from Carly herself.

As D said, Carly may in fact be the last radfem standing at Birkbeck

What list of research interests? She has said nothing about what the research is for, what links she is trying to establish, hypotheses she is trying to prove/disprove, in fact anything about where her interests or the interests of her research lie.

I don't know if that is normal within academic reasearch to give participants minimal amount of information (not being an academic myself). I could see some advantage to it - in order not to sway opinion or to limit bias towards participants who are strongly in favour/against the research.

Still not getting the me me me thing Hannah. Or the sense of entitlement or what we have supposedly "taken".

Don't quite see what the problem is with that list of research interests ...

I think, given the context of ageism, it would have been reasonable for OP to explain why she only wants to talk to younger women.

sorry OP I'm too old as well; I do know lots of younger feminists but would need to know more about the theoretical viewpoint you are coming from and what you are hoping to get out of the research before I can put you in touch with them, what with feminism being all about political activism for me and me not wishing therefore to undermine the aims of that activism. (Or to put it another way I suppose, I would need to trust you, and I'm not yet sure I do.)

"Landon Jones, who coined the term "baby boomer" in his book Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation, defined the span of the baby-boom generation as extending from 1946 to 1964" (from the hallowed halls of Wikipedia)

I am not a baby boomer, by definition

< can sleep easy tonight >

Are we doing it wrong again?

Actually, I'd be interested in that research because it seems to me that claiming to be a feminist is rife in younger women but backed up with zero foundation at all when pushed for their reasoning even a tiny bit. Along with spouting some, frankly incredible, mysogynistic viewpoints.

oops, poor use of italics

I am just taking the piss, tbh

Because I get annoyed with the way that women over 40 become invisible. Now that is "unsisterly" when reinforced by other women

I have a really sexy sideways look, with a knowing smirk and smouldering eyes behind the gigs/swept fringe

if I don't open my mouth too wide, you can't see the gaps in my dentures either

Look, for all you know she wants people in that age group because she has already done a HUGE amount of research on older women and wants to look at this group for comparison.

I have done research on women under 35 before because there is simply no need for anything else, because it has all been done before.

I am just annoyed with all the me, me, me. Its not very sisterly.

I have a 15 yo and a primary aged child

I am 107 though and my corsets gape a bit at the front

i'm 40.

i'd take part but i'm apparently too old.

shame. i would've been really interesting too. given that i tried to join the marines and all. ah well.

to be fair, students usually don't target those over 35 for research unless they are into gerontology. largely because that way they get to interview the other students at uni as participants. it makes for a much easier sample. (and easier to arrange interviews etc) and buggers up the research totally, because of course, well, not everyone in the world thinks like a student. always very depressing to wade through hundreds of 'research participants wanted' in uni e-mails at this time of year.

i'm a bit disappointed at being left out actually. i mean, i was born in the seventies ffs, so by the time i'd developed any sort of feminist consciousness everyone was watching dynasty and wearing shoulder pads and killer heels. hardly discounts me from participation on the grounds that i might have been tainted by a more activist era.

i mean, my mother was a cleaner. like her mother.

ethically it's more complicated to include under 18s - which is a shame, as i had some really interesting young people come forward who were desperate to talk about identifying as trans. ah well.

op - i'd love to see your info sheet - it might give us a better idea of your actual research.

don't worry about the reaction on here re radfems and birkbeck etc. when i tried to get participants using the web i didn't sleep for days because of the backlash on one board. haven't clicked on the burlesque link, but i assume that was naother site you advertised for participants on, to get some different opinions. after all, just listening to strident mn fems would just give you one pov. i'd be on burlesque sites too. and net mums. and babyworld. and a few of the other specific fem sites. you are obv casting your net as wide as poss, rather than sticking to fellow students, so yay!

good luck.

It's because people over 35 are evidently not as attractive in french knickers and nipple tassels.

All done in an empowered and ironic way, of course

Annie - I'm with you . As dittany pointed out too it seems to be a completely random remark!

I am older than you Hannah but I am not sure I am a baby boomer either (born early 70's?). Not sure what I have "taken" or why I have a sense of entitlement? Perhaps you would care to enlighten us?

I was just wondering whether feminism stopped being relevant when you were 35 or something (and younger than 18 - but I thought that limit might be legal requirements, CRB etc)?

I'm not a baby boomer Hannah, I am not much older than you.

Anyone else blinking a bit at HannahHack's post? WTF?

I'm too old for the study, sadly.

As I fellow PhD student I would have found it intersting.