Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty

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Bateman has written regular economics commentary for Unherd, [26] Bloomberg View [27] and CapX, [28] has contributed articles to The Guardian, Times Higher Education, The Conversation and The Telegraph and has appeared on a number of BBC Radio 4 programmes. [29] Personal life [ edit ] Billen, Andrew (28 March 2019). "What makes Victoria Bateman strip? The naked Brexit protester reveals all". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 22 May 2019. Economics fellow Dr Victoria Bateman, from Gonville and Caius College, stripped off on Good Morning Britain today to reveal an anti-Brexit message written across her breasts. The stunt comes just days after she bared all during an interview on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. The academic first made headlines when she posed nude for a portrait shown at a Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London five years ago.

Bateman grew up with two younger sisters in Lees, Oldham. Her father worked in the sheet metal industry, installing ductwork; her mother worked for the same company in the payroll department. When both parents lost their jobs, her father started a new business of his own, which foundered when clients were unable to pay. Her mother worked several jobs, and the family struggled to pay its debts. Bateman's parents divorced when she was 14 years old, and their economic straits worsened. Her sisters dropped out of school, and one became pregnant as a teenager. Bateman attributes her interest in economics to witnessing first-hand the effects of the boom-bust cycle and economic disparity. With the encouragement of her father and a history teacher, she studied economics at Cambridge as an undergraduate, followed by master's degrees in economics and economic history and a doctoral degree in economics at Oxford. [4] Research [ edit ] Bateman, Victoria (3 March 2016). "Brexit will hurt UK Science". www.bloomberg.com . Retrieved 10 April 2019.

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Home Secretary Suella Braverman questions whether 1951 UN Refugee Convention is 'fit for our modern age' Bulman, May (31 March 2017). "Female sex workers should be thought of in same way as male soldiers and boxers, Cambridge academic says". The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022 . Retrieved 2 April 2017.

Bateman is a frequent critic of Brexit, arguing that "Brexit leaves Britain naked", [15] and that leaving the EU would hurt low-income families, [16] damage British scientific research, [17] would reduce trade and investment, and would place freedom for the nation state ahead of freedom for the individual. [18] Bateman, Victoria (25 July 2017). "Capitalists – not socialists – are killing capitalism". unherd.com . Retrieved 8 February 2019.

Who is Dr Victoria Bateman?

In 2016, Bateman attended a Cambridge University Faculty of Economics meeting naked, as a protest against Brexit. [19] She had the words "Brexit leaves Britain naked" written across her torso. [20] On 14 January 2019, Bateman delivered an hour-long lecture against Brexit at the Cambridge Junction while naked, [21] then asked the audience to sign her body as a petition. [22] She was subsequently invited to appear on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, in which she also stripped naked. [23] This led to a naked appearance on Good Morning Britain, although her body was pixelated before broadcast. [24] She similarly appeared naked at the March 2018 meeting of the Royal Economic Society. [25] Media [ edit ] Kafka, Alexander C. (21 June 2019). "Victoria Bateman's Self Revelations: an economist strips down to make a point". Chronicle of Higher Education: B17-19.

verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Cambridge academic stages nude protest over Brexit in front of 30 economists during faculty meeting Kafka, Alexander C. (17 May 2019). "Are Women Invisible to Economists? One Scholar Is Stripping Down to Make Them Look". The Chronicle of Higher Education . Retrieved 22 May 2019. Williams, Zoe (30 March 2019). "The Sex Factor by Victoria Bateman review – punching feminism into economics". the Guardian . Retrieved 30 March 2019.Her earlier work focused on the role of markets in economic development in Europe. Her paper The evolution of markets in early modern Europe, 1350–1800: a study of wheat prices [6] uses data on European wheat prices to study trends in market development from the early medieval period to the industrial revolution, demonstrating that markets were as well-integrated across Europe in the early 16th century as they were in the late 19th century. Her book Markets and growth in early modern Europe builds on this research, examining several aspects of the relationship between market integration and economic development. [7] Feminism and protest [ edit ] Bateman identifies as a feminist, and writes: " I believe passionately in freedom for women, and whilst many battles have been won in the past century, there is still a long way for society to move until women enjoy the levels of freedom that they should be able to. I am not afraid to use my body as well as my brain to deliver important messages." [8]

Professor does Brexit radio interview completely in the nude". 8 February 2019 . Retrieved 11 February 2019. Bulman, May (2 July 2016). "Cambridge academic stages nude protest over Brexit in front of 30 economists during faculty meeting". The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022 . Retrieved 2 April 2017. She is well known for her public protests against Brexit and in favour of women's rights, occasionally appearing naked. Dr Victoria N Bateman". Gonville & Caius College. University of Cambridge . Retrieved 13 October 2017. By posing naked, she aims to make “the female presence felt in a clear and powerful way” and to challenge the idea that women’s naked flesh is sinful or shameful, the academic explained.

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The university lecturer said that her attire for the conference, comprising just the bank notes, was a “fitting combination of feminist and economic symbolism”. Female lecturer bares all to promote abortion, prostitution at faculty dinner". 20 June 2018 . Retrieved 11 February 2019. Hallam, Luke (15 January 2019). "Dr Victoria Bateman Gets Naked Against Brexit". The Cambridge Student . Retrieved 15 January 2019.