Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ opus Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, is a beautifully crafted and thoughtfully written work, which not only serves […]
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Two weeks ago Paulina and Anna, two of our much cherished volunteers and me, Pauline, the intern, supported by our Volunteer Co-ordinator Gabrielle, decided to set up a new group: […]
Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore.
Sisters Albina Maggia Larice, Amelie Mollie Maggia and Quinta Maggia Mcdonald , Edna Bolz Hussman, Eleanor Ella Eckert, Genevieve Smith and her sister Josephine Smith, Grace Fryer, Hazel […]
New Polls on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Show Widespread Abuse
I, like thousands and thousands of others across the world, have been repulsed by the almost never-ending allegations levelled against Miramax co-founder and Hollywood big wig Harvey Weinstein over the […]
“Daring to Drive” by Manal al-Sharif
A young Saudi woman who stood up to a kingdom of men There is no law prohibiting Saudi women from driving. Nothing that could legally stop them from simply getting […]
Rational Passions: Women and Scholarship in Britain 1702-1870: A Reader edited by Felicia Gordon and Gina Luria Walker
Rational Passions: Women and Scholarship in Britain 1702-1870: A Reader edited by Felicia Gordon and Gina Luria Walker is an important collection of the early written scholarship composed by women […]
Outsiders Still: Why Women Journalists Love and Leave Their Newspaper Careers by Vivian Smith.
The book Outsiders Still: Why Women Journalists Love and Leave their Newspaper Careers is a 2015 book by Vivian Smith that explores the experiences of women in the newspaper medium […]
Sapphic Fathers:Discourses of Same Sex Desire From Nineteenth Century France by Gretchen Schultz
Gretchen Schultz’s new book is an important work on the meeting between French literary representations and lived identity, in the case of LGBT women during history, and pushes the argument […]
Am I Blue: A Review Taster for Story Café Special: Sister Creatures!
Alice Walker’s 1986 short work Am I Blue is a poignant and thought-provoking story which, at surface level, details a woman’s friendship with a horse she names Blue, while, on […]
Join Us This Thursday for Utter: Raise Your Voice – It Might Just Help Your Mental Health.
Are you an aspiring singer? Looking for a fun way to meet new people or try something different? Or are you interested in boosting your own confidence or escaping the […]