Dr Tess Little

I am a writer and historian with interests in place, power, narrative, and memory. My historical research focuses on the 1970s women’s liberation movement. Using archival and oral history material, I explore how feminists in different countries shared protest tactics, theory, and organisational ideas. In my book Transnational Women’s Liberation (Oxford University Press, 2026), I examine a case study of movements in the US, UK, and France; my interviews with women’s liberation activists in those three countries are archived at the British Library. I have written about feminist art and activism, as well as other subjects – from supermarkets, fictional architecture, and photography archives to library thefts, forensics, and murder mysteries – for publications including London Review of Books, The Paris Review Daily, The White Review, and Another Gaze. I also write fiction; my novel Girls! Girls! Girls!, set in a Midtown Manhattan women’s residence, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury, UK (2027).