Jane Austen is now so well known that her name is short-hand for a particular type of chick-lit. In fact, thanks to the movies, it is more likely to conjure up images of Mr Darcy emerging from a lake than the quiet English countryside. Yet, before all of this hubbub there were her words. Her ...
Bridget Jones has been my friend for close to 15 years now and I have loved every minute in her company. I thought I would introduce her to you this Christmas because she is always good for a laugh, to have a drink with, to help you when you’re feeling low, or to share funny ...
Money, romance, independence, and the rights of women are central to this Victorian-style novel, The Second Mrs. Darcy. It catches the reader’s attention immediately by proclaiming to a newly widowed young woman that “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a ...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
