The art of dying by Ambrose Parry
This was the latest book chosen for my book club read. I don’t think any of us were aware it is actually the second book in a series when we picked...
30 August 2020
Notes to self by Emilie Pine
This was my book club’s choice for May. I had heard about it before that and had meant to read it but hadn’t gotten around to it before now. Then again,...
25 May 2019
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 a labor shortage produced by sexism.
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. If they are angry, they are angry at what harms...
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 referendum. Here was an issue that which was not as...
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! When she and her friend Nora get involved they must...
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 for sexual gain can sometimes make consuming the news feel...
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 that women… just aren’t interesting. The things we do and...
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 thing. If a man writes ‘The cat sat on the...
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 little put-off by the premise; women suddenly develop the ability...
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 analyzes its implications for today’s women and today’s Catholic Church....
2 July 2017
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