Browsing the blog archives for July, 2009

Calling all feminist parents

Just a short post to let you know about a new feminist parenting forum brought to you by the same people as the Mothers for Women’s Lib blog.
Sayeth one of the forum moderators, Anji:
It was created to fill a very specific need – a parenting forum free from the tiring misogyny present on so many [...]

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July 29, 2009 in feminism
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In other news…

Cathy Warwick, General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, says ‘Don’t tell women how to give birth.’
A Sudanese women faces 40 lashes. For wearing trousers.
In happier news, a 91 year old Scottish woman has borrowed nearly 25,000 books from her local library over 63 years… and never had an overdue fine. She might [...]

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July 29, 2009 in feminism, news & media
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The Booker Prize Longlist 2009

Argh! My blogging is appalling at the moment, for which I apologise. It’s the usual thing: full time job + final throes of part time MA = not much time for blogging. You can expect patchy blogging at best until the end of September. Yes, September 30th is what I am calling D-Day: the day [...]

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July 29, 2009 in fiction, prizes
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Burial – Neil Cross (2009)

Crime fiction is one of my guilty pleasures. Any sort of crime fiction, from the literary fiction end of the scale, right down to, er, Patricia Cornwell. This obsession follows me to the world of TV as well. I’m pretty much obsessed with CSI and all those programmes.
This week a review copy of a novel [...]

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July 9, 2009 in book thoughts, fiction
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Wise Children – Angela Carter (1992)

Wise Children by Angela Carter comes bedecked in praise. In the novel’s introduction, Ali Smith calls it Carter’s “most glorious, most cosmic, most fulfilled, certainly her most generously and happily orgiastic, fictional performance.” On the back cover we have Edmund White calling it her “best book”, while Salman Rushdie assures us that it “deserves all [...]

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July 1, 2009 in book thoughts, fiction
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