Books Archives - The F-Word

Breaking the silence around menstruation

Jenna Kirby21 March 2019

Jenna Kirby considers the impact that a book like Natalie Byrne’s Period. could have on a reader’s relationship with their own body...

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“I really wanted my voice, a voice like my voice, to be heard”: Victoria Bailey meets Toria Garbutt

Victoria Bailey3 March 2019

Spoken word poet Toria Garbutt is a magnetic performer. Victoria Bailey saw her perform in Gateshead last year and was so impressed that she just had to interview her...

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Reporting on rape culture

Charlotte Barnes25 February 2019

Charlotte Barnes reads Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture – a collection of accounts of rape and sexual assault edited by Roxane Gay – and finds it painful and troubling but also timely and necessary...

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Why what we believe about women’s lust and infidelity is Untrue

Christina Carè28 January 2019

Christina Carè reviews Wednesday Martin's book Untrue and finds it an interesting - although occasionally jarring - delve into the history surrounding the (untrue) assertion that women are largely submissive, 'low-libido' beings ...

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Roxane Gay in conversation with Liv Little

Genevieve Richardson7 January 2019

Genevieve Richardson is blown away by writer Roxane Gay in conversation with gal-dem founder Liv Little...

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Flawed and fabulous women through time

Jessica Strange22 November 2018

Guided by iconic pioneers of the feminist movement, Jessica Strange learns a thing or two about living in a modern world by asking herself: What Would Boudicca Do?...

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Has science failed women?

Lucy Everitt20 November 2018

Lucy Everitt reviews Angela Saini’s book Inferior and finds it a fascinating critique of how science has consistently got women wrong through the ages – but is change finally in the air? ...

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Chills and Thrills: Comics for Halloween

Emily Zinkin28 October 2018

Emily Zinkin discusses her favorite supernatural comics in this Halloween themed reading list...

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Jiggle with pride

Wendy Tuxworth24 October 2018

Wendy Tuxworth reviews Virgie Tovar’s book, You Have the Right to Remain Fat, and embraces its joyful message of fat acceptance as well as its vehement rejection of fatphobia...

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Seduction for sale

Charlotte Barnes3 October 2018

Charlotte Barnes reviews Rachel O’Neill’s recent book on the ‘seduction community’ and is introduced to an industry seemingly built on misogyny and problematic attitudes towards women...

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“Growing up I never had a princess that looked like me, now I can get an action doll with cornrows!”: an interview with Letitia Wright

Emily Zinkin18 September 2018

Emily Zinkin got to see Black Panther star Letitia Wright, who plays Wakandan royalty and tech genius Shuri, in interview at London Comicon...

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Madonna at 60

Kirsty Folan25 August 2018

Kirsty Folan enjoys Lucy O’Brien’s newly updated biography of Madonna, Like an Icon...

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The Inking Woman: 250 years of Women Cartoon and Comic Artists in Britain

Sara Stewart10 August 2018

In examining the 250-year history of female cartoon and comic artists in Britain, Sara Stewart is moved by their trials and tribulations but still sees a long way to go...

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First in the world somewhere

Cazz Blase3 June 2018

Cazz Blase salutes Penny Pepper and enjoys her post punk memoir First in the World Somewhere...

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Writing a world without gender

Florianne Humphrey31 May 2018

Florianne Humphrey is impressed with the socio-political issues explored in the steampunk fantasy novel Galleon...

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From pain to empowerment

Zoe Louise Tongue26 April 2018

Zoe Louise Tongue reviews 100 Women I Know, a book detailing accounts of sexual assault and rape from 100 women, finding it an emotionally difficult read but a necessary and powerful one...

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An end to feminism?

Josie Davis18 April 2018

Josie Davis reads What Women Want by Ella Whelan and can’t resist writing a pointed response piece about the book that suggests that “feminism must end”...

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The science of bad language

Louise Jones12 March 2018

Louise Jones reviews Dr Emma Byrne’s first book Swearing is Good for You which offers a defence of swearing, backed by historical case studies and cutting-edge research ...

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