Our Bodies, Ourselves will cease updates after forty years of educating us about women’s health
Our Bodies, Ourselves, the pioneering book about women’s health and sexuality originally published in 1973 and modernized continuously throughout the years, will no longer be published in updated versions, according… Read more »
With the girls
Gone Girl. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The Girl Who Played with Fire. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. Girl in the Dark. Girl with a Pearl Earring.… Read more »
Did you grow up surrounded by books? Well then, you must be rich!
According to a new study published in the Economic Journal, children who grow up with a large number of books in the house earn more money later in life. Or at… 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 »
Strident, whining, ignorant morons: Mary Beard on the female voice in the public realm
We reported last summer on the torrent of online abuse classicist and Cambridge don Mary Beard encountered after appearing on the British program Question Time, and how she responded: by… Read more »
Binders for your women — reviewed
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the Amazon reader comments” — said no political leader… Read more »
Brigid Brophy: space in the minivan?
In a time when e-readers are marketed like minivans—mine can carry more than yours—it feels good to rediscover Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey, and Charles Osborne’s Fifty Works of English (and… Read more »
Women’s and workers’ libraries under threat
In another heartbreaking piece of news from the libraries front line, the Women’s Library and Trade Union Congress Library in London are under threat. Both are currently housed by London Metropolitan… Read more »
Are publishers keeping women down?
Are publishers inadvertently reinforcing an imbalance of acceptance given to books written by men compared to those written by women? Author Meg Wolitzer in a New York Times story, asks depressingly… 1 / Read more »
Book tells Muslim men how to beat and control women
A marriage advice book, entitled A Gift for Muslim Couple by Maulavi Ashraf Ali Thanvi, is creating an uproar in Canada. For sale at Islamic Books and Souvenirs in Toronto, the… Read more »