Tag: Feminism
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Spinster
Spinster love or hate the term? Spinster is frequently seen as a derogatory term. Use be the most adored Jane Austen painted single women as characters of ridicule through her novels. Helen Fielding presents Spinsterhood as a fate worse than death through the globally cherished Bridget Jones. Often evoking pity, or the stereotype of envious…
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Awakening the Pen
Alison Little talks us through the influences behind her novel: Causal Nexus and her hopes for the future of the works. The initial motivation to pen Causal Nexus was rapidly prior to reading Nathan Fillers Costa 2013 Book of the year: ‘The shock of the Fall’. Submerged by the vividly pragmatic fiction, Filer bestows an…
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
…Fantastic Sex Scenes Beautiful World Where Are You is Sally Rooney’ hot ticketed, successive, novel. After the grand-slam of Normal People, enacted into a BB3 series, then aired on BBC 1 amidst lockdown restrictions, her new novel was much anticipated. Book shops opened early for its UK release; September 7th, within five day it had…
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When ‘the Rag’ is ‘the Rag’
Let’s talk about Period Poverty Period Poverty identifies with women and girls not able to afford menstruation products. Equally, the lack of understanding around menstruation and aims to reduce taboos around the subject. The latest research from Plan International UK in regards to Period Poverty dates to December 2017. (https://plan-uk.org/media-centre/plan-international-uks-research-on-period-poverty-and-stigma) To summarize: 10% of girls…
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Oppression; the push-up bra
Oppression: the push-bra Oppression identifies with a core item of woman’ under apparel as a leader in female subjugation: the Push-up bra. A push-up bra pushes the breasts abnormally upwards to present the image of a larger cleavage. It is a fantastical projection of what women should look like, an imaged informed by the…
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