Annette Frieda Kuhn, FBA is a British author, cultural historian, educator, researcher, editor and feminist.
While a student in the early 1970s, she co-authored a survey of British university graduates with Anne Poole which supported the notion that first children among several have higher educational achievement than their siblings.
[3][4] She co-edited Feminism and Materialism (1978) with AnnMarie Wolpe, was part of the founding editorial collective of Feminist Review (1979- ) and was a member of the women's photography group Second Sight.
1994),[6][7] in which Kuhn defined a variant of fictional realism as "new women's cinema" which targeted a working woman audience of the mid-1970s;[8]: 175 and The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality (1985).
[14] As lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College (1974–76), Kuhn taught classes on women and the family and the sexual division of labour.
Kuhn has delivered keynote lectures, invited talks and workshops also in Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain and Switzerland.
Concurrently, Kuhn has inquired into photography and cultural memory, with a particular interest in the uses of and meanings attaching to family photographs, conducting research and workshops, giving talks and producing writings on the subject.
[22][23][24] The Oxford Dictionary of Film Studies (2012), which Kuhn co-authored with her Queen Mary University of London colleague Guy Westwell, was several years in the making.