Consumption patterns and desires are very much historical artefacts, created by the culture and psychology of particular societies.
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Book Review: Reclaming The F Word: The New Feminist Movement by Catherine Redfern and Kristin Aune
A snapshot of feminism today - based heavily on a survey of 1,265 feminists of many hues.
Read More »Sex, Money, Marketing
Gender differences in buying goods and services.
Read More »Book Review: Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century by Sheila Rowbotham
We might think we're being radical and original — we've nothing on our great-great grandmothers.
Read More »Book Review: Leadership Secrets of Hillary Clinton by Rebecca Shambaugh
The art and science of good leadership
Read More »Book Review: Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything by Geneen Roth
A weighty topic implying food is not the problem, and dieting is not the solution.
Read More »International Women’s Day and the Search for Opportunity, Education and Acceptance
As International Women's Day arrives, there are women all across the globe who are being deprived of education and opportunities.
Read More »Things I Failed to Learn from My Grandmother
She grew, preserved and cooked her own food, and almost never threw anything away.
Read More »Book Review: Sisters: An Anthology edited by Jan Freeman, Emily Wojcik, and Deborah Bull
The unique bond of sisters takes many forms in this rich collection from Paris Press.
Read More »Book Review: Love and Power in the Peasant Family: Rural France in the Nineteenth Century by Martine Segalen
"I can’t do better than compare you to a field of young cabbages before the caterpillars have been through.”
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