Introduction
Sally A. Alexander, FRHistS (born 1943) is an English historian and feminist activist.
Career
She completed a diploma in history at Ruskin College, Oxford, before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in the subject at University College London. She helped to organise the United Kingdom's first national Women's Liberation Movement conference at Ruskin College in 1970, and was involved in several London Women's Liberation Workshops as well as the Night Cleaners Campaign (1970-72). A founding editor of the History Workshop Journal (established in 1976), she taught in the Extra-Mural Department of the University of London in the 1970s; as of 2018 is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Goldsmiths, University of London. Aside from feminist history, her academic interests include the history of other social movements, of memory, and of psychoanalysis in Britain.
She has a daughter, Abigail Thaw, with ex-husband John Thaw.
Selected publications
- Becoming a Woman: And Other Essays in 19th and 20th Century Feminist History (London: Virago, 1994).
- (Co-edited with Barbara Taylor) History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).