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Another day, another reminder that women in this supposedly post-feminist age aren’t receiving the help and support they need in the face of rape and domestic violence.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has rightly deplored the findings that over 100 local councils do not provide adequate support to victims of rape and domestic violence, [...]
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January 30, 2009 in feminism, places, politics Tagged domestic violence, EHRC, rape support, trevor phillips
Found this article in The Guardian this afternoon. Nadje Al-Ali has written a book called What Kind of Liberation?: Women and the Occupation of Iraq along with Nicola Pratt. It’s published by University of California Press.
In her book she highlights the fact that, as a result of consecutive wars, the Iraqi population is now disproportionately [...]
While I have not read a great deal of Updike’s work, and while that which I have read didn’t particularly do anything for me, I was still sad to hear about the death of a literary giant from lung cancer yesterday.
Obituaries and tributes can be found in The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, [...]
Apologies for the radio silence people. It’s been a bit of an odd week. Normal service will resume shortly (when I am less like the above kitteh).
Meanwhile, follow me on Twitter.
I’m pretty left-wing, it would seem. Not much of a surprise there. Find out where you are here - or at least where you were in 2005 (UK politics).
“Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whisky and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.”
The good thing about being in a reading group is that you pick up books that you would never normally consider, or have just [...]
…from the old blog… this was one of my favourite books from last year.
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This is probably a shameful confession, but before Saturday morning I had never heard of Zora Neale Hurston, or her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. On top of that, if it hadn’t been lined up with the other beautiful VMC 30 [...]
January 21, 2009 in fiction, review
Tagged american fiction, virago modern classics, vmc, zora neale hurston
Tagged american fiction, virago modern classics, vmc, zora neale hurston
“For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act – not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed [...]
Not the TV Book Group
Sun 07 Feb: Brodeck's Report - Philippe Claudel
Sun 21 Feb: The Girl with the Glass Feet - Ali Shaw
Sun 07 Mar: Vanessa and Virginia - Susan Sellers
Sun 21 Mar: The Illusionist - Jennifer Johnston
Sun 11 Apr: Skin Lane - Neil Bartlett
Sun 25 Apr: The Boys in the Trees - Mary Swan
Sun 09 May: A Short Gentleman - Jon Canter
Sun 23 May: Fledgling - Octavia E. ButlerReading Challenge
The Equality Illusion - Kat Banyard
The Women's Room - Marilyn French
Letters from a Fainthearted Feminist - Jill Tweedie
Ideala - Sarah Grand
Singled Out - Virginia Nicholson
Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education - Jane Robinson
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
The Color Purple - Alice Walker-
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