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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 …
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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 …
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Choicework is a participatory patchwork piece celebrating and increasing awareness of the worldwide growing pro-choice movement. In this series of workshops held at the Feminist Library, you can learn new craft skills whilst participating in the project and engaging …
Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation, by Sarah Irving (Pluto Press 2012) Review by Tali Janner-Klausner, lilithlaughed.co.uk/?p=126 The photograph that featured under many headlines after the 1969 hijacking. The ring on her finger is made of a grenade pin and …
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Live Through This, by Sabrina Chap (Seven Stories Press, 2012) This book is an edited collection of pieces by women artists, describing their creative journeys, with images of art work and memoirs of emotional experiences – including whilst writing this …
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The Fun Kind: Feminist Fictions, by Elizabeth Carola (Siren Press, 2012) This collection of short stories by radical feminist Elizabeth Carola is an easy and enjoyable read. Although fiction, the characters and scenarios described are recognisable and will feel familiar …
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How much of our food is produced by women workers? Are mothers going hungry to feed their kids in austerity Britain? Want to know how to grow your own, or set up a community kitchen? Come to the Feminist Library …
Revolutionary Women: A book of stencils edited by Queen of the Neighbourhood, (PM Press, 2010). This is a book of stencils of the faces of some amazing activist women, accompanied by short stories of the life of each one. The …
Class and Gender in British Labour History: Renewing the Debate (or starting it?)Edited by Mary Davis (Merlin Press, 2011) “Historians have a lot to answer for: our knowledge of the past is filtered through their collective lens” (Mary Davis, p14) …
