Category: Feminism

• On Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God: Purple prose in hindrance of its master

  Authors, Books, Child of God by Cormac McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, Fiction, Violence Against Women

• Biography: Simone de Beauvoir by Ursula Tidd

  Biography, Books, Feminism, Non-Fiction, Women Writers, Women’s Rights

• Ignorance is bliss – Mayer, Sandberg & the attack on feminism

  Anti-Feminism, Feminism, Women’s Rights

• The battle of the sexes in fiction – Lawrence Naumoff’s Taller Women

  Authors, Books, Feminism, Fiction

• Tony Rudt: A brilliant mind in a great collection of essays

  Biography, Journalism, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt, Tony Judt, Women’s Rights

• How to challenge sexist men’s thinking

  Abuse of Women, Anti-Feminism, Feminism, Sexism

• Really? A clever, witty, FUN movie about the US Supreme Court?

  Classics, Feminism, Films, First Monday in October, Jill Clayburgh, Walter Matthau, Women’s Rights

• CHARTS: Heres What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About…

  Feminism, Journalism

• Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner: A moving meditation on love and personal choices

  Anita Brookner, Feminism, Fiction, Women Writers

• Moments of Truth: Twelve 20th-Century Women Writers. A great book by Lorna Sage

  Authors, Biography, Books, Feminism, Journalism, Lorna Sage, Non-Fiction, Women Writers

• The Philosopher’s Pupil by Iris Murdoch: An Appreciation

  Abuse of Women, Authors, Fiction, Iris Murdoch, Literary Classics, Misogyny, The Philosopher’s Pupil by Iris Murdoch, Women Writers

• Facebook treats rape page as ‘pub joke’

  Abuse of Women, Anti-Feminism, Facebook & Rape, Feminism, Misogyny, Violence Against Women

• Jane Eyre – A wonderful, radical heroine

  Anne Brontë, Authors, Books, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Feminism, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Literary Classics, Stevie Davies, Women Writers

• The best review/criticism of Hakim and her anti-feminist Honey Money/Erotic Capital nonsense

  Anti-Feminism, Catherine Hakim, Erotic Capital by Catherine Hakim, Non-Fiction, Sexism

• On ‘Ho*ney Money: The Power of Er*otic Capital’ by Catherine Hakim, plus Cristina Odone’s celebratory book review of it. Or: Golly Jee, Mr – Fancy a Flirtatious Smile & a Metaphorical BJ with That?

  Abuse of Women, Anti-Feminism, Catherine Hakim, Feminism, Misogyny, Non-Fiction, Sexism, Women’s Rights

• Dirty Weekend by Helen Zahavi: A wonderful fable-like story of feminist power and retribution

  Abuse of Women, Dirty Weekend by Helen Zahavi, Fiction, Helen Zahavi, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence Against Women, Women Writers

• The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedeyat: A Persian/Iranian literary classic about madness, obsession, betrayal and murder.

  Fiction, Literary Classics, Misogyny, Sadeq Hedayat, The Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat, Violence Against Women

• 26 reasons why some men are such dogs – woof! . . . .

  Feminism, Women’s Rights

• Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea: An amazing re-visioning of Jane Eyre

  Charlotte Brontë, Feminism, Jean Rhys, Literary Classics, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys