Latest news from The Feminist Library
This month the London Student Feminist Network presents the Student Feminist Conference 2013, which will take place at the University of London Union on the weekend of the 23rd and 24th February. Organised by grassroots activists from an array of …
Student Feminist Conference 23rd and 24th February 2013 Read more »
Recordings made by Yula Burin and participants of the Women’s Studies Without Walls inaugural event on the 19th and 20th of January 2013 Big thanks to Camden Community Radio for hosting these podcasts. On consciousness raising: http://canstream.co.uk/camden/index.php?id=497 How the event …
Podcasts from Women’s Studies Without Walls Weekend Event Read more »
The New Maids: Transnational Women and the Care Economy, by Helma Lutz (Zed Books, 2011). In her book, Helma Lutz provides a thorough investigation of the broad spectrum surrounding the issue of migrant domestic labour. While illuminating the various aspects …
Jewish London, by Rachel Kolsky & Roslyn Rawson, (New Holland Publishers, 2012). This new guidebook to Jewish London published in 2012 by New Holland Publishers has been beautifully put together. The fantastic photographs bring the areas to life and make …
Jewish London, by Rachel Kolsky & Roslyn Rawson, (New Holland Publishers, 2012). Read more »
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. …
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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 …
