Seven feminist books on sex
Featuring a range of books on pleasure, intimacy and identity, Connie and Cleo recommend some thought provoking, feminist reading material to add to your bookshelf
non-fiction
Questioning our dearly held ideas about gender
Sage Brice reviews Shon Faye’s compelling and informative debut book The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
Why are there so few women producers?
Cazz Blase salutes Helen Reddington’s book She's at the Controls, a forensic examination of the gendered power play in the music sound engineering and production industry
Dabiri’s work is always one step ahead
Sharmin Islam reviews What White People Can Do Next, Emma Dabiri’s newest addition to the anti-racism guide genre
The best fiction and non-fiction coming in 2021
The editors of The F-Word's fiction and non-fiction sections select some of the best new titles coming in 2021
The future of music lies with trans and non-binary people
Sojourner McKenzie sits down with music historian and journalist Lucy O’Brien to talk about the 25th Anniversary edition of her book She Bop and the future of music
Edinburgh Book Festival 2020 top picks
New non-fiction editor for The F-Word, Olivia Logan, shares her top picks for the (online!) Edinburgh Book Festival 2020
Sexuality, power and social justice in the #MeToo era
Georgina Diaz finds a lot to get her teeth into in Carolin Emcke’s book When I Say Yes
An investigation of desire
Katherine Tallent reviews Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women and finds a compelling narrative, but also recognises the limitations of this much discussed bestseller
Gay love in Victorian Britain
Georgina Diaz finds Outrages by Naomi Wolf a valuable read on the makings of modern homophobia despite recent questions regarding the accuracy of some of the author’s research
The violence in silence
Zoe Louise Tongue reviews The Anatomy of Silence, a collection of essays on experiences of rape and sexual violence, which explores the silence that still exists around rape culture even in the era of #MeToo
Breaking the silence around menstruation
Jenna Kirby considers the impact that a book like Natalie Byrne’s Period. could have on a reader’s relationship with their own body
Reporting on rape culture
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
Why what we believe about women’s lust and infidelity is Untrue
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
Flawed and fabulous women through time
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?
Has science failed women?
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?
Seduction for sale
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
From pain to empowerment
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
