Janet Parry
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Janet Parry
Classmark: FAN/JAP
Date(s): 1970s
Size and medium: 5 boxes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/507118
Collection group(s): Feminist Archive North
Description
Documents relating to Janet Parry's dissertation on Concepts of the Family in the Theory and Practice of the Women's Liberation Movement. Janet began the dissertation in the 1970s but it was never completed.
The collection consists of notes, chapter drafts, press cuttings, articles, conference papers, feminist newsletters and magazines and card indexes. It was donated by Janet's husband after her death in 2014.
The donation also included a number of newsletters and periodicals which are now housed in our periodicals collection:
WIRES issues 49 & 55
Birmingham Women's Liberation Newsletter, Dec 1984
Birmingham Women's Paper, Nov 1979 & July 1977
Rights! The Newsletter of the NCCL, July 1980
Red Shift, undated, post 1976
Women Now - Women at Work, undated - 1973?
News from Women's Liberation, Feb 1974(?)
National Abortion Campaign Newsletter, May 1977, July 1977, Sep 1977
National Abortion Campaign News: Day of Evidence, Abortion Rights Tribunal 1978(?)
Breaking Chains, July/Aug 1977 Sept/Oct 1978
Whatever Happened to the Scottish Women's Liberation Journal? 1978
Virgin Birth issue (undated)
Edinburgh Women's Liberation Newsletter, May 1977, June 1978
Catcall, issues 6,7,8
The Leveller, issue 14
It also includes the following pamphlets, which are housed in the pamphlets collection:
Towards a Science of Women's Liberation: Red Rag Pamphlet No 1
Women, Oppression and Liberation :Communist Party Pamphlet
Biography or history
Janet Parry studied Sociology at Edinburgh University and obtained an MA in 1977. She was a committed feminist and following her graduation she registered for a PhD at Cambridge University on Concepts of the Family in the Theory and Practice of the Women's Liberation Movement. However, after pursuing this she decided not to complete the Doctorate, and instead obtained a post as a Research Assistant at Sheffield Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University). She finished her career as Director of Housing Management at Sheffield City Council.
After taking early retirement, she began a degree in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Sadly, she was unable to complete this, having been diagnosed with cancer in January 2014. She died in March that year at the age of 58. She remained a committed feminist all her life.
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