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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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Listen without prejudice?

Joanna Whitehead22 January 2018

Joanna Whitehead reviews Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women And The Women Who Love Them, a collection of essays exploring misogyny in music...

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Goodbye Leia (and thank you, Carrie)

Emily Zinkin19 January 2018

Emily Zinkin says goodbye to Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia but is still not done going on adventures in a galaxy far, far away or smashing the space patriarchy...

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#BlackComicsMonth

Emily Zinkin31 October 2017

Emily Zinkin discusses Black Comics Month and celebrates black female comic creators...

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Zoe Russell reads Is Monogamy Dead? by Rosie Wilby and believes it could potentially be a good starting point for ‘not-yet non-monogamists’ but perhaps relies too much on the author’s personal experience ...

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A dangerous kind of forgiveness

Taryn De Vere7 August 2017

Taryn de Vere reads South of Forgiveness by Thordis Elva and questions whether the author’s personal account of ‘forgiving’ her rapist sets an unhelpful and problematic precedent ...

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A tale of unlikeable women

Sarah Tinsley20 July 2017

Sarah Tinsley applauds Helen McClory’s Flesh of the Peach for refusing to shy away from women’s less palatable traits and experiences ...

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A new twist on some old standards

Nick Beard18 July 2017

Nick Beard cooks and bakes her way through 2015 Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain’s first cookbook Nadiya’s Kitchen and finds herself asking some thought-provoking questions along the way...

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Strange Love

Ali Cocksworth6 July 2017

Ali Cocksworth finds Strange Heart Beating to be an interesting study of grief and relationships, but feels that at points the novel privileges craft over emotional depth...

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Down the rabbit hole

Lauren Hossack26 June 2017

Lauren Hossack finds Sympathy an insightful and compelling exploration of our increasingly digital lives...

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DIY Cultures 2017 shows us that counterculture is alive and thriving

Erin Aniker8 June 2017

Erin Aniker chats with festival founders Hamja Ahsan, Helena Wee and Sofia Niazi ...

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A literary masked ball

Helen Taylor5 June 2017

Author Helen Taylor explores the concept of the pseudonym and forces herself to confront her own preconceptions around what it is to be a 'woman writer'...

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The magic touch

Sarah Tinsley1 June 2017

Sarah Tinsley praises Laura Dockrill’s Aurabel for its surprisingly gritty take on the fantasy YA novel...

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The sweat behind the words

Evelyn Deshane30 May 2017

Evelyn Deshane reviews Notes from a Feminist Killjoy by Erin Wunker and admires the author’s demonstration of the physical exertion and ‘sweat’ behind the process of writing...

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A story that breaks the skin

Hannah Atkinson22 May 2017

Hannah Atkinson reviews Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You and finds it a heart-breaking and stunningly realistic portrayal of one woman’s experience of an abusive relationship ...

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Getting to the heart of the matter

Jemma Morgan10 May 2017

Jemma Morgan finds Susan Hill’s From the Heart to be a poignant exploration of a woman’s experience in the 1950s, but urges us to tackle issues of inequality in the present, rather than simply looking back at the past...

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The problem with ‘manning up’

Joanna Whitehead4 May 2017

Jo Whitehead enjoys the YA novel Girl Mans Up, but is somewhat disappointed at the lack of critical examination of sexist language and internalised misogyny...

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