Inside a feminist bookstore in China
The owner of Lady Book Salon in Beijing, Xu Chunyu describes herself as a “mild feminist.” Encouraging women to “focus on empowering themselves and improving their own lives,” rather than… Read more »
Amy Collier wouldn’t read Purity if you paid her…PSYCH!
For the past year, Amy Collier has been exclusively reading books written by women. Inspired by the fruits and frustrations of her investigation into the literary canon, she founded an online… Read more »
On women’s suffrage: “A string of nonsense to be stirred with a sharp knife”
When American women were lobbying for the right to vote in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, they were often (and unsurprisingly) ridiculed for being “neglectful mothers and kitchen-hating harridans, busy… Read more »
Debuts lead in the Baileys Prize longlist
The longlist for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. The annual award, which celebrates the best novels in English by women of any nationality, is this year… Read more »
UPDATE: Protestors hope to save London’s Feminist Library
A few weeks ago, we reported on the rent hike that threatens to evict London’s Feminist Library from Westminster Bridge Road, where it’s been offering crucial literature from the Women’s… Read more »
Words by Women Awards launches
Last Monday, the 2015 Press Awards shortlist was announced. The prestigious award aims to celebrate ‘the best of UK national journalism’ and the numerous categories mean there’s room for every… Read more »
London’s Feminist Library to be evicted on first day of Women’s History Month
For 30 years, the Feminist Library has made its home at 5 Westminster Bridge Road in London, making available a large collection of literature from the Women’s Liberation Movement, as well as maintaining… Read more »
Is the Oxford Dictionary of English sexist?
Last week, anthropologist Michael Oman-Reagan tweeted at @OxfordWords to question the primary usage example under its definition of “rabid”: (adjective) having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support of… Read more »
New study confirms that popular history genre is dominated by male subjects and authors
A recent study conducted by Slate confirms that trade history books—those intended for a general audience, not a solely academic one—are (big surprise) mostly written by men. Of the study,… Read more »
Emma Watson is launching a feminist book club
On Tuesday, we asked Is Bill Gates the new Oprah? Today, we ask Is Emma Watson also the new Oprah, and maybe actually a better new Oprah? Ok, ok, enough… Read more »