Kathy Lette, The Revenge Club, Aria and Aries, May 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Kathy Lette has not let her joy in creating a comedy undermine her strong story line that promotes the abilities and strengths of women fast approaching their sixties, a continuing fight to breakContinue reading “Week beginning 13 March 2024”
Tag Archives: Women's History Month
Week beginning 31 March 2021
Book Reviews: Jillian Cantor Half Life Simon&Schuster, 2021, first published 2011 by Headline Publishing Group. Jillian Cantor’s novel is described by Marie Benedict, author of The Other Einstein as a ‘thoughtful, compelling story [which] delves into issues faced by modern women , while inviting readers to ruminate on their own life choices and the dominoContinue reading “Week beginning 31 March 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”
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”
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