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In her latest work Unspeakable Things Laurie Penny does gutsy, messy feminism. Bodily fluids abound in this book: snot, semen, vomit… because Penny is sick, sick to the stomach of bland and gutless feminism. Unspeakable Things is a call to …
Review: Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution, Laurie Penny (Bloomsbury, 2014) Read more »
Kit Habianic’s first foray into the world of novel writing follows on the heels of her journalistic and short story writing careers. Until Our Blood Is Dry, set in a small South Wales pit village, follows the fortunes of Gwyn …
Review: Until Our Blood Is Dry, Kit Habianic (Parthian, 2014) Read more »
I’ve always been slightly worried (terrified) about the thought of bringing daughters into this world. I found it hard enough growing up as a teenage girl and I thankfully missed out on bullying/porn/social media/sexual relationships until I was well over …
I see you standing on the river bank, casting about for stones to fill your pockets. I feel the paralyzing cold as you wade in, the weight of your wet clothes as you force yourself forward. The water is in …
Review: Vanessa and Virginia, Susan Sellers (Two Ravens and Harcourt, 2008) Read more »
Making Peace with the Earth, by Vandana Shiva (Pluto Press/Fernwood Publishing, 2013) Vandana Shiva will be known by many people as an environmentalist, anti-globalisation campaigner, and a founder of eco-feminism. This book isn’t explicitly eco-feminist in content, although it’s clear …
The Feminist Library Bookshop will not be open this Saturday as we will be at the London Radical Bookfair at the Bishopsgate Institute. Come and visit us at the bookfair between 10am and 5pm. The Bookshop will open as usual at …
Feminist Library Bookshop at London Radical Bookfair Saturday 10 May Read more »
Half of the Human Race, by Anthony Quinn (Jonathan Cape, 2011). The period of militant suffragism prior to World War I forms the main backdrop for Anthony Quinn’s novel, which also takes us through the war and after, when votes …
Review: Half of the Human Race, by Anthony Quinn (Jonathan Cape, 2011). Read more »
Given the Choice, by Susan Sellers (Cillian Press Limited, 2013) The novel is a well-written and thought-provoking account of a modern upper-class couple’s struggle with the decision to become parents. Marion, an ambitious and hard working woman in her early …
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Mad About The Boy, by Helen Fielding (Jonathan Cape, 2013) Helen Fielding and I go back a long way. I’ve never met her, but I loved her first novel, Cause Celeb. Published in 1994, it looked at the role of …
Review: Mad About The Boy, by Helen Fielding (Jonathan Cape, 2013) Read more »
Hello there, And a big welcome to our 2013-2014 exhibition and events programme! We are launching our programme for this academic year with “the Suffragettes and the art of social change”. Working with The Museum of London and The Feminist …
Press Release: the Suffragettes and the art of social change Read more »
