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| Description | Folder of posters, mainly on sex discrimination in schools. Listed below:
1. 86x55.5cm double sided poster about gender stereotyping and bias in identifying and helping disabled students, produced by Council of Chief State School Officers Resource Center in Sex Equity, Washington, 1983.
2 - 7. Series of posters created by the Women's Group at Hackney Downs School for boys, approx 30x42cm (for more context for these posters see MYE/20) - some of these posters are laminated. They all have a signature 'Carol Ross'. 2. 'Boys Don't...?', green background, black text and drawings. 3. 'Double Standards', green background, black text and drawings, laminated. 4. 'Real Work?', red background, black text and drawings. 5. 'Superman loses out!!', blue background, black text and drawings. 6. 'Are girls and boys really so different?', green background, black text and drawings. 7. 'What are little boys/girls made of?', red background, black text and drawings.
8. 'Towards equality for boys and girls' approx 30x42cm, National Union of Teachers (NUT), ND. 9. Educational poster, approx 30x42cm. Has a drawing and information on Mary Seacole, created by the Afro-Caribbean Teaching Unit, Multicultural Education Faculty, Education Support Service, Birmingham. 10. Educational poster, approx 30x42cm. Has a drawing and information on Harriet Tubman, created by the Afro-Caribbean Teaching Unit, Multicultural Education Faculty, Education Support Service, Birmingham.
11. 'Stitching memories - African-American Story Quilts', 91.5x60cm. Large colour poster, double sided, advertising an exhibition at William College Museum of Art. One side features a large reproduction of a quilt by Alice Neal 'The Mary Bright Commemorative Quilt' and the other side has smaller panels on other quilts and art works by African Americans, 1989.
12. 'Women mathematicians', approx 59x84cm, features drawings and information on Hypatia, Mary Fairfax Somerville, Ada Byron Lovelace, Grace Chisholm Young, Emmy Noether, Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, published by the Equal Opportunities Commission, Manchester.
13. Danish poster with the title 'staerke volund er sa nem, at selv rigtige maend ka finde ud af det', it is a photo of a naked man, sitting on top of a washing machine. It roughly translates as Staerke Volund (the brand of washing machine) is so easy even real men can figure it out' 42x30cm
14. 'Classroom politics', poem written by Fiona Norris printed as an A4 poster. At the bottom of the page it says it is from a book 'Yesterday today tomorrow', published by ILEA English Centre, 1984 (the book is available in the IOE Library)
15. Colour poster 'California Women - courage, compassion, conviction' 85x56cm. Features photos/drawings of a number of women from 1800s up to 1970s including Delilah Beasley, Marie Mason Potts, Mine Okubo and Julia Morgan, published by California State Department of Education, 1987.
16. 'Join the Wrens', colour poster (possibly a reproduction), approx 57x37cm, Women's Royal Navy Service poster, c1939 - 1945.
17. Colour poster 'If you're not going to school you're not going anywhere', Ministry of Education/Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga, New Zealand, approx 30x42cm. ND.
18. Colour poster, 'Feminist book fortnight', 1990, approx 30x42cm.. There is no information on where this is from.
19. 'One man's meat is another woman's Sunday gone', b/w poster featuring a drawing of a woman standing by a cooker, the artist has signed it 'Mel Calman', approx 30x42cm, ND.
20 - 23, series of posters created by the Women's Sport Foundation and London Strategic Policy Unit, circa 1980s. Each one is a mix of text and photos, black background with pink and yellow text. 20. Poster, approx 30x42cm 'Sport is exhilaration, relaxation, recreation' 21. Poster, approx 30x42cm 'These girls made history - they are the first young women ever to play football at Wembley', photo of the Millwall Lionesses, 1987. 22. Poster, approx 30x42cm 'Running for others - the sporting spirit' 23. Poster, approx 30x42cm 'This is not just for the boys anymore' |