Neglectful of adding to this work

It looks like I've been neglectful of this assignment as I concluded assignment 5 late last summer whilst the work was fresh in my head.  I have been thinking a lot about this critical review and have decided on what to write about.  When I read the brief for this assignment my thoughts immediately went to that topic on representations of gender, race and ethnicity in photography.

I have worked hard all my life and even when bringing up our children but was unable to move into my real love of working in photography due to family commitments.  When our sons had left school I was able to pursue this avenue and have put much of my energies into photography, but often found that being a woman there were some drawbacks in the seventies, eighties and nineties which still carried on prejudices against women.

My assignment will be entitled 'The Emancipation of Women in the 20th Century with Special Regard to Women in Photography".  People always say write about what you know best and, having lived and worked in the latter part of the 20th century, I feel eminently experienced enough to comment.

I have been seeking out the written word about the whole situation in the 20th century and women photographers in particular and it helps that there is such a spotlight this year (2014) on the situation of women in the first world war as this seems to have been a major turning point in the emancipation of women.