from Reevaluating the ‘Romantic’ hit songs of pop music’s patriarchy
I felt vaguely as if someone had just removed all my skin with a potato peeler Emma Silvers
24 November 2018
How To Kill Your Tech Industry
by Marie Hicks In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer. By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to...
3 November 2018
All the Rage
Most great activists—from Ida B. Wells to Dolores Huerta to Harvey Milk to Bill McKibben—are motivated by love, first of all....
29 September 2018
from Masterminds of the right by Emily O'Reilly
The tactics, and at times, the sheer genius, of the conservative lobby came most sharply into focus during the 1986 divorce...
9 July 2018
The making of Mollie by Anna Carey
Mollie Carberry ; book 1 Mollie Carberry’s life seems pretty dull until she discovers her older sister Phyllis is a suffragette!...
11 February 2018
Women & power by Mary Beard
Hearing the latest sex abuse scandal or the latest supposedly feminist man revealed as a jerk using his power and position...
20 January 2018
Where are all the women? by Elizabeth Bear
I think the problem is that some writers (and some readers) have spent a lot of time internalizing our societal narrative...
22 October 2017
Diary – LRB by Anne Enright
it is tempting to join her in concluding that men and women are read differently, even when they write the same...
30 September 2017
The Power by Naomi Alderman
First rec’d by Abigail Nussbaum – Strange Horizons When I first read about The Power I was both intrigued and a...
24 September 2017
The serpent and the goddess by Mary Condren
Using Ireland as a case study, this book provides an account of the decline of matriarchal power in Western civilizations and...
2 July 2017
The serpent and the goddess by Mary Condren
Women, therefore, had no input into a theology that gave so much importance to the male seed, and that led to...
2 July 2017
The serpent and the goddess by Mary Condren
Fergus’s fertility was so renowned that his name itself has been translated as “male ejaculation son of super stallion”. His virility...
26 June 2017
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