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Book Review: My Very Own Murder
Chick-lit disguised as a cozy mystery-- a pleasant but unsubstantial read.
Read More »A Russian Princess, a Lot of Science, and a Bit of Sex
Ekaterina Dashkova was a pioneering science administrator and linguist. So she's best known as Catherine the Great's "tester" of men.
Read More »Book Review: Reading Families: Women’s Literate Practice in Late Medieval England
Women were, through this engagement with the written word, beginning the long, tortuous climb into the public world.
Read More »Book Review: The Gender Politics of ICT
There's many a computing industry boss who'd benefit from even a cursory browse of its contents.
Read More »Book Review: Good Housekeeping Wartime Scrapbook
If you're looking for a Christmas present for an elderly female relative, this would be just the ticket.
Read More »Book Review: Life Mask, by Emma Donoghue
"Tis now common to suspect Impossibilities whenever two Ladies live too much together - that horrible Vice ... call'd Sapphism."
Read More »Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture – Review
As Hobson points out, the history of exploitative, demeaning use of black bodies, particularly female bodies, is continuous.
Read More »Book Review: The Wise Woman
Philippa Gregory's The Queen's Fool is an entertaining, well-researched novel of Tudor times.
Read More »An adventurous woman
... her real ambition was to go to the Congo, and that was where she went next ...
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