Book Reviews: Catherine McCormack, Women In the Picture Women, Art and the Power of Looking, Icon Books Ltd, London, 2021. McCormack provides a well researched and powerful analysis of revered paintings and sculptures that highlights the anti- woman approach of so much art in galleries around the world. Her feminist approach is a valuable contributionContinue reading “Week beginning 24th March 2021”
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Week beginning 17th March 2021
Book Reviews: Julia Cooke, Come Fly The World, The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. Women’s History Month Women’s March 4 Women Rally Canberra 15 March Thousands of people, predominantly women, but with plenty of men, children and dogs also in attendance, rallied at Parliament House, Canberra. TheContinue reading “Week beginning 17th March 2021”
Week beginning 10 March 2021
Women’s History Month Book Reviews: Liz Hodgkinson, The Women Who Transformed Journalism, First published by Revel Barker Publishing, 2008, this publication, Lume Books, 2018. Commentary: books relevant to Women’s History Month (see Book Reviews) Let fiction have a say: British Women Fight for the Vote in Stand We at Last and Things a Bright GirlContinue reading “Week beginning 10 March 2021”
Week beginning 3 March 2021
Book Review: Women’s Liberation! Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can, Edited by Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore, Library of America, 16 February 2021. Thank you to Net Galley for this copy for review. With Women’s History Month being celebrated in March, this collection seems the most relevant with which to beginContinue reading “Week beginning 3 March 2021”
Week beginning 24 February 2021
New Book Reviews: Bernard Jan, Cruel Summer. This is a review of a novel that gave me an insight into the world of Young Adult Fiction, skateboarding, and a new author. Reviewed for Goodreads. Sue Wilkes, Jane Austen’s England. This is an excellent combination of contemporary information, allusions to Jane Austen’s novels and life andContinue reading “Week beginning 24 February 2021”
Week Beginning 17 February 2021
Book Reviews – new review, Kristin Contino, A House Full of Windsor. The following have been moved to Book Reviews: Archives – Part 2, Sections on women in the 1930s novels and class in the novels: Racism, Sexism and Classism in Agatha Christie’s novels. Covid Notes A reduction in mixed messages one of the factorsContinue reading “Week Beginning 17 February 2021”
Week beginning 10 February 2021
Book Reviews: I have added a review of Wartime with the Tram Girls, sent to me by Net Galley. Lynn Johnson has written an accessible novel of historical research related to the domestic front and women’s changing roles during WW1, with some romance as well. The following has been moved to Book Reviews Archives: MyContinue reading “Week beginning 10 February 2021”
Week beginning 3rd February 2021
Book reviews – a section on classism in Agatha Christie novels has been added to the Agatha Christie Indulgence. Television comments – a couple of observations about The West Wing have been added. Local responses to Covid – personal and business Personal– day 1 Well, now I have experienced Covid testing, and am part wayContinue reading “Week beginning 3rd February 2021”
Week beginning 27th January 2021
Interview between Rachel Maddow and Chuck Schumer Last week I saw Kamala Harris interviewed on CNN. This week I was able to follow up that interesting insight into Harris with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s interview of Chuck Schumer. Schumer spoke strongly about what he would, and would not, let Mitch McConnell control in the Senate inContinue reading “Week beginning 27th January 2021”
Week beginning 20th January
Spending a week in Perth was a pleasant reminder of the tremendous effort that Australians, in the main, are putting into keeping Australia as Covid 19 free as possible. Masks are now mandatory in the Canberra and Perth airports, and on Qantas flights, unless eating or drinking. An interesting observation in the city of PerthContinue reading “Week beginning 20th January”
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