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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 »
On December 8th at 7 pm please join the Feminist Library and Edinburgh-based independent publishing company Linen Press for an evening of selected readings by authors Olukemi Amala, Hema Macherla, and Lynn Michell. Their latest works address the figure of the …
From the Margins to the Page: Women Writers Give Voices to Heroines of Disrepute. Read more »
Our seasonal book sale is finally back! Pick up some bargains to enjoy on holiday or curl up with on a rainy weekend at home. We warmly welcome all books, whether explicitly feminist or not. Paperback prices start at £1.50. Tours …
“Feminist Writers’ Space” is the first Saturday of the month, 1.30pm – 5pm. Writers’ Space is an open space for women writers to come and use the library to write and be inspired by the books and journals. We’ve been …
After the first 6 successful months of the Writers Space, the collective has now decided to replace the 4-5pm Feminist Fiction and Poetry reading group with a discussion group. The new programme will now be: 1.30 – 5pm Open writer’s …
Writers Space and discussion group at the Feminist Library Read more »
Are you interacting effectively with politics and reaching MPs? Or are your messages not getting the reaction you expected from politicians? Many individuals, charities and campaigning groups could use some practical help on politics. This workshops are aimed at getting …
Politics and parliament – a workshop by Jessica Metheringham Owlett Read more »
A special 30 year anniversary event at the Feminist Library 5 Westminster Bridge Road Entry on donation plus additional £3 to attend film screening. Talks, Workshops, Films, Discussions, Food, Drinks feat…. * Discussion on the history of the camp and Boise …
