In Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders, the social historian Jane Robinson — whose previous books include histories of suffragettes and bluestockings — champions British women who were ‘first-footers’ in…
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literary journalism sex & genderHappy ever after: why writers are falling out of love with marriage
Greta Gerwig’s film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 classic Little Women begins with an adult Jo March entering the smoke-filled, man-filled offices of a New…
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For Philip Larkin, sexual intercourse began in 1963 — “between the end of the Chatterley ban /And The Beatles’ first LP”. The 1960 Old Bailey verdict that had…
After so much press coverage of allegations of sexual misconduct by Harvey Weinstein, how much more is there to say on the subject? Quite a lot, it turns out.
In She Said,…
Lisa Taddeo’s exploration of the ‘heat and sting of female want’ was hotly anticipated, but leaves something to be desired
The epigraph of Three Women comes from Baudelaire’s ‘Windows’: ‘What one can see…
Threesomes. Moresomes. Submission. Stilton?! Could tapping into your erotic fantasies be the key to a better sex life?
Given an increasing willingness to talk about sex, you might think we would be…