Jane Kelly
6 November 2017 · · Women, Youth
‘This is not about sex, but about power’
What is it that has happened to open up the huge debate across the media and beyond about sexism? Why has it happened now? It’s been going on for ever yet suddenly everyone is talking and wr…
19 January 2016 ·
Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
Jane Kelly reviews Melissa Gira Grant's book published by Verso Books in collaboration with Jacobin Magazine. Written by a journalist and former sex worker, this book turns on its head the c…
6 January 2015 ·
The Golden Trap
Jane Kelly reviews The Golden Dream, a film by Diego Quemada-Díez, a Spanish director, which follows four young people, all played by first time actors, across Latin America to their goal in…
30 November 2014 ·
Left Unity opposes NHS privatisation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nyht8oNBM0 We held a successful meeting of Southwark Left Unity on 26 November dealing with the rapid privatisation of the NHS writes Jane Kelly . We showed …
30 September 2014 ·
Hong Kong ‘Let the era of civil disobedience commence!’
Or why Hong Kong’s Occupy Central Movement has Beijing very, very scared The mass demonstrations of Occupy Central, striking students and workers challenging the Chinese Government’s decisio…
26 January 2014 · · 4 comments
Sex, moral panics and capitalism
A rather grandiose title perhaps writes Jane Kelly , but how else to write about young people, sexuality and new technology without trying to relate it all to the society within which we liv…
25 January 2014 · · 1 comment
Daumier's contemporary resonances
Jane Kelly reviews the Royal Academy of Arts' exhibition Honore Daumier (1808-1879): Visions of Paris (26 October 2013—26 January 2014). I left it very late to go to this and it finishes on …
24 April 2013 · · 1 comment
What does a (young) woman want?
Family life has its down sides The notorious question posed by Freud, ‘What does a women want?’ is not as ridiculous as it seems writes Jane Kelly . Quoted by his biographer Ernest Jones in …
25 November 2012 ·
No Reduction in Abortion Time Limits
Women have always tried to control their fertility by whatever means possible including illegal, often dangerous terminations writes Jane Kelly . Mike Leigh’s film Vera Drake showed what thi…
28 December 2011 · · 8 comments
Stieg Larsson "Efface your traces!"
Jane Kelly reviews Steig Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy: The girl with the dragon tattoo; The girl who played with fire; The girl who kicked the hornet’s nest Most people reading this review wi…
16 March 2011 · · 1 comment
The Wedding – why does it matter?
Jane Kelly explains Capitalist economies in crisis, rising unemployment, rebellion in North Africa, climate chaos, how will we get out of all this? I know, let’s have a royal wedding! Apart …
14 April 2010 · · 1 comment
Women and Socialism: Learning from History
The coming decade of austerity will hit the oppressed hardest including women, especially working women. As the resistance to austerity cuts develops, the question of how oppressed groups in…