M.A.-Women in Education
I had already started the two year part time M.A. [ when I met Jenn]- Women
in Education at Sussex University, and I really liked the sound of it. And
it turned out to be the most wonderful, wonderful thing; I loved it - Carol
Dyhouse and Jenny Shaw. It was a wonderful group of women- you could have
men on the course, but there weren't any!and it was lovely.It was one of
those moments that you really thought about feminism and I really began to
think that there is a thing about a group of women talking about things together,
people give each other time, and you can interrupt each other and as soon
as you get a man into that situation, not always but often, something happens
and it becomes this other thing. I read things I wouldn't have read and wrote
things that I wouldn't have written. The course allowed us to talk about
anything. We met once a week and it was hard work, because we were all working
full time. Big reading lists, and difficult to get the books sometimes..for
part time students who couldn't there often...it was a revelation.