On  Wednesday 21st April, End Violence Against Women, Imkaan and Women’s Resource Centre hosted a Mayoral hustings with the candidates for the upcoming Mayor of London election and representatives standing for election at the local government elections. As the elections draw nearer, The View joined in the hustings to hear what mayoral candidates were pledging to…

Harriet Taylor (1807-1858) was a radical reformer, philosopher, political economist and feminist. Her contribution to both theory and practice has been generally overlooked, like that of many women throughout history. In Taylor’s case this has been compounded by the fact she married the famous British thinker and reformer, John Stuart Mill, whose legacy has tended…

The history of philosophy is a history of men talking to men, about other men. The ambitious minds of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Kant and Hume (to name just a few!) have dominated and dictated our definition of ‘philosophy’ throughout history. While impressive and fixating, this exclusively male story has systematically overlooked the lives and…

Philosophy has long occupied a position of privilege: dominated by great white male figures, speaking to us through difficult language and harder concepts, and allowing the reader only to aspire to such deep thought. The history of philosophy – as Jessica Leech reminded us, The View blog 8th July 2020 – is often a history…

This is a call to action for everyone and anyone who understands that it is important for us to strive for a better quality of life for all, including those who may have  committed a crime. . Human beings have the ability to accumulate trauma in their subconscious mind which then plays out as specific coping behaviours…

Kate Wilmot attended the recent Zoom conference  held by the Ministry of Justice , discussing the roll out of the new proposed women's centres. On the 5th August, Clinks and the MOJ held an online conference to discuss the MOJ’s plans to develop a residential women’s centre (RWC) pilot in at least five sites across England…

HMP Holloway was closed in June 2016 and was then purchased by Peabody in 2019, a housing association with a £42m loan from the Mayor of London. Their commitment is to build approximately 1 100 homes and a legacy Women’s Building that helps women in the community as well as those who come into contact…

Eleanor Jones, Criminology BA (Hons) Graduate from the University of Liverpool Half the women discharged from prison reoffend.1 Over 17 500 children are separated from their mothers every year due to female imprisonment.  We are calling for greater investment in researching and implementing alternatives to women’s imprisonment, because women’s imprisonment is ineffective and inflicts  the morally…

Concerns regarding the morality and effectiveness of women’s prisons are reflected in the statistics revealing 45% reoffend within a year of being released from prison. Alternatives that help reduce reoffending and keep women safe from further trauma  must be  a priority. Funding is very precarious  for the existing network of women’s centres. It is also sporadic…