Mothers in Fiction: The Marvellous, The Mean and Everything in Between, by Carrie Dunn, (Crooked Rib Publishing, 2012). This is an adorable revisionist trail through literary history in search for “the mother” in all her narrative guises. Starting with Shakespeare’s …
Bonds of Love: psychoanalysis, feminism and the problem of domination by Jessica Benjamin, (Pantheon Books, 1988). With a sense of morbid panic, the recent Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon encouraged me to take up this feminist classic text. I wanted …
This book is a collection of writings about and by sex workers, some of whom claim to be feminists. The selection of sex workers included in this book speak openly about feminism as feminists, which has been a controversial topic …
‘Whores and Other Feminists’ by Jill Nagle, (Routledge, 1997). Read more »
Lambeth Women’s Project 166A Stockwell Road Lambeth London SW9 14th June 2012 Dear Ego and all at Lambeth Women’s Project, I am writing on behalf of the Feminist Library management committee, to express solidarity and maintain practical and supportive …
An open letter to LWP – offer of practical support Read more »
International Women’s Day at the Feminist Library “REBEL REBEL” on Thursday 8th March 2012 from 2pm the Feminist Library will be opening its doors to welcome you for a day of bookstalls, food, drinks, discussions and celebration of rebellious women. …
International Women’s Day at the Feminist Library – from 2pm on 8th March Read more »
Alcestis by Katherine Beutner (Soho Press, 2010) Originally written around 438 B.C. the classical Euripidean tragedy portrays Alcestis as a modest and devoted wife who sacrifices herself in place of her condemned husband Admetus; selflessly propelling herself into the underworld. For …
The focus of Laurie Penny’s Meat Market will be familiar to readers of her blog and columns, with chapters confronting sex and sex work, eating disorders, transphobia and domestic labour. Meat Market is at its best when challenging media orthodoxies on these issues, and particularly when …
It’s open season on baby boomers. Born in the aftermath of World War Two, we are now in our 60s, living it up – allegedly – on our huge pensions, clogging up the transport system with our Freedom Passes and …
In 1970 the first conference of the National Women’s Liberation Movement was held in Oxford. Forty years later, many of the ideas promoted at the meeting have been absorbed into the mainstream, while other demands, sadly, have yet to be …
Reviewed: Kira Cochrane (ed.), Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism Read more »
In 1938, at a time when activists for legal abortion were middle-class reformers who based their argument on the alarming numbers of working-class mothers harmed or killed by illegal abortions, Frances Worsely Stella Browne stood up before a parliamentary committee on abortion …
Reviewed: Lesley A. Hall, The Life and Times of Stella Browne, Feminist and Free Spirit Read more »
