Feminist Approaches to Youth Sexualities

Transcript from an interview with feminist researcher Janet Holland about the Women, Risk and AIDS Project (WRAP), which was conducted in 1989-1990. Janet conducted many of the original interviews with young women living in London, and her home acted as a base for the research team. She offers an account of how the research project came into being and how it had been shaped by the social and political context around AIDS/HIV at the time. There is also discussion of the research team's dynamics, the ways that they gained access for interviews with different young women in London and how they had managed collaborative work together in a time before email. She talks about her interest in feminism in the 1970s and what it was like to be the only woman on her male-dominated economics course at university, as well as a brief summary of her early academic career as a working class woman in the 1980s. She notes that there were new ideas around feminism and sexuality emerging at the time of WRAP and that she sometimes felt like an 'old dinosaur' compared to the younger generation of feminists. The interview concludes with Janet's hope that those reading the archived WRAP interviews will be aware of the contexts of London and Manchester in the 1980s, as she thinks that so much has changed since then in different ways.

Title	Interview with Janet Holland, original member of the WRAP team (Interview transcript)
Description	Transcript from an interview with feminist researcher Janet Holland about the Women, Risk and AIDS Project (WRAP), which was conducted in 1989-1990. Janet conducted many of the original interviews with young women living in London, and her home acted as a base for the research team. She offers an account of how the research project came into being and how it had been shaped by the social and political context around AIDS/HIV at the time. There is also discussion of the research team's dynamics, the ways that they gained access for interviews with different young women in London and how they had managed collaborative work together in a time before email. She talks about her interest in feminism in the 1970s and what it was like to be the only woman on her male-dominated economics course at university, as well as a brief summary of her early academic career as a working class woman in the 1980s. She notes that there were new ideas around feminism and sexuality emerging at the time of WRAP and that she sometimes felt like an 'old dinosaur' compared to the younger generation of feminists. The interview concludes with Janet's hope that those reading the archived WRAP interviews will be aware of the contexts of London and Manchester in the 1980s, as she thinks that so much has changed since then in different ways.
Date	24/02/2020
Contributor	Ester McGeeney
Creator	Reanimating Data Project
Publisher	Ester McGeeney
Subject	Sociology Women's Movement Universities Career Career development Working class Psychology Travel International travel Methodology Research outputs Research publications AIDS disease AIDS education Surveys Data collection methodology Interviews (Data collection) Ethics Sex education Contraceptive methods Condom use Contraceptive pill The pill Sexual assault Unwanted sex Data analysis Political change Ethnic groups Religion Islam Social class Generation gap Oral sex Virginity Feminist Misogyny Sexism Thatcherism Intersectionality Ethnicity Race Muslim Postmodernism. Feminism
Type	Text
Temporal Coverage	2020
Spatial Coverage	London
Rights	CC BY-NC 4.0

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