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Professor Sarah Knott's Inaugural Lecture: Why a History of Care?
Care is an everyday word, belonging to all of us. In 2025, ‘care’ is an object of contemporary debates, naming the work that sustains life, provided by kin or the market or the state or mutual aid. Sometimes care is associated with particular groups: childcare, social care, trans care. How did we get here, and how far back should we look? This lecture explores the emergence of ‘care’ as a liberatory idea in the 1980s, seeking to change patriarchy and capitalism, and the challenges of making sense of “care” in the longer past and the present day. ‘Care’ is a worthy object for an inclusive feminist women’s history and for our times.
Date:
24 November 2025, 17:00
Venue:
Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Speaker:
Professor Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.cognitoforms.com/HistoryFaculty1/HillaryRodhamClintonChairOfWomensHistoryInauguralLecture
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Belinda Clark
