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Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland gives voice to 57 women from BC to the 21st century. The ‘voices’ of the poems range from those of the women featured, to inanimate objects – queens, politicians, a ship, a fish gutter, scientists, a mountain, sportswomen (including a whole football team) and many more. QUINES celebrates the richly diverse contribution women have made to Scottish history and society.
Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland gives voice to 57 women from BC to the 21st century. The ‘voices’ of the poems range from those of the women featured, to inanimate objects – queens, politicians, a ship, a fish gutter, scientists, a mountain, sportswomen (including a whole football team) and many more. QUINES celebrates the richly diverse contribution women have made to Scottish history and society.
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sailles was published. Shocked <strong>by</strong> the terms of the Treaty, the<br />
women drew up a resolution and sent a telegram to members<br />
of the Peace Conference in Paris:<br />
This International Congress of Women expresses its deep<br />
regret that the terms of peace proposed at Versailles should<br />
so seriously violate the principles upon which alone a just<br />
and lasting peace can be secured, and which the democracies<br />
of the world had come to accept. By guaranteeing the fruits<br />
of the secret treaties to the conquerors, the terms of peace<br />
tacitly sanction secret diplomacy, deny the principles of selfdetermination,<br />
recognise the rights of the victors to spoils<br />
of war, and create all over Europe discords and animosities,<br />
which can only lead to future wars.<br />
The women of the icwpp were not only excluded from playing<br />
what could have been an effective part in determining the course<br />
of history, their advice and warnings were ignored, at the world’s<br />
peril. We cannot afford not to hear from those representing half<br />
the human race. We maun tak tent.<br />
<strong>Gerda</strong> <strong>Stevenson</strong><br />
February 2018<br />
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