The review this week is from a book I am so pleased to have purchased. Difficult Women A History of Feminism in 11 Fights, by Helen Lewis is an excellent discussion of feminism, feminist issues, and those that we refer to in feminist histories (as well as those that sometimes are deliberately omitted). The blurbContinue reading “Week beginning 11 May 2022”
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Week beginning 10 November 2021
Susan, A Jane Austen Prequel by Alice McVeigh is the fiction book reviewed this week. Clive Aslet’s The Story of the Country House seemed an appropriate companion review. Both were provided to me by NetGalley. Following the book reviews are articles/comments about Canberra and Covid; Cindy Lou Restaurant Review; Infrastructure Legislation; COP26; UK Health andContinue reading “Week beginning 10 November 2021”
Week beginning 24th March 2021
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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