NetGalley provided me with the uncorrected proof of Lisa Z. Lindahl’s Unleash the Girls The Untold Story of the Invention of the Sports Bra and How It Changed the World (And Me) in exchange for an honest review. Lisa Z. Lindahl Unleash the Girls The Untold Story of the Invention of the Sports Bra andContinue reading “Week beginning 9th March 2022”
Tag Archives: Jocelynne Scutt
Week beginning 2 March 2022
Reviewing Tom Stoppard A Life was an interesting process – looming large was the question ‘How did I enjoy the plays of this conservative person who, in my opinion, dined too many times with Margaret Thatcher? The closest I could come to recalling any sense of political unease was at the end of seeing NightContinue reading “Week beginning 2 March 2022”
Week beginning 7 July 2021
Books reviewed this week are: Kelly Heyman’s Build Back Better. The First Hundred Days of the Biden Administration, and Beyond and From Women to the World Letters for a New Century, edited by Elizabeth Filippouli. NetGalley provided me with the following uncorrected proofs for review. Kelly Heyman Build Back Better. The First 100 Days ofContinue reading “Week beginning 7 July 2021”
Week beginning 12th May 2021
Book review: Peter Hore, Bletchley Park’s Secret Source Churchill’s Wrens and the Y Service in World War 11, Greenhill Books, 2021 I am not a reader of war books and before reading Blethcley Park’s Secret Source my knowledge of women’s contribution to this aspect of the war was through novels; my research on Barbara PymContinue reading “Week beginning 12th May 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 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 25 November
Booker Prize goes to Scottish author Douglas Stuart for debut novel Shuggie Bain. Book reviews@ By arts editor Dee Jefferson. Book Reviews: Introduction to reviews of Agatha Christie novels which reflect racist, sexist and classist ideas. This introduction is based on my article Ethical Fiction: Essential? Desirable? Irrelevant? Review of Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious AffairContinue reading “Week beginning 25 November”
Posts week beginning October 9, 2020
The following books are reviewed in Book Reviews. They were published in 2014, but resonate with current events in America. For example, vigilante movements, ‘the invention of whiteness’ and the demands on women as appendages of political men, as well as those they must adopt to be successful political figures in their own right. HeathContinue reading “Posts week beginning October 9, 2020”
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