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SECRET DAUGHTER
Posted by Charlotte on June 9, 2009
Tags: Books, Non-Fiction
As much as I enjoyed making issue 7 I’m already working on my stuff for issue 8 including a spread on women in film, behind the camera, calling shots, changing lives and all that jazz.
As part of this…
BLOODY BOOKS
Posted by Charlotte on February 23, 2009
Tags: Books, Non-Fiction
Maturely side stepping numerous puns and word play from the lexicon of menstruation I shall delve delicately into a little buzz about My Little Red Book, a delightful anthology of first periods collected from women of all ages and from…
BOOK REVIEW: WETLANDS, CHARLOTTE ROCHE
Posted by Gill on February 4, 2009
Tags: Books
After reading about Charlotte Roche’s first book, Wetlands, all over the press, I was excited to receive a review copy and see if it lived…
CHARLOTTE ROCHE – WETLANDS
Posted by Laura on January 17, 2009
Tags: Books
Today’s Guardian Weekend supplement featured a piece on Charlotte Roche, author of the not-yet-published-in-the-UK Wetlands Roche, herself, is a feminist but her book, with it’s lead character’s lack of personal hygiene, explicit masturbation and fascination with the body, seems to…
MAKING STUFF & DOING THINGS: A COLLECTION OF DIY GUIDES TO DOING JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING
Posted by Charlotte on April 23, 2008
Tags: Books, Non-Fiction
edited by Kyle Bravo
(Microcosm Publishing, 2006, 240 pp, RRP £5.86)
http://www.microcosmpublishing.com/
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MAMAPHONIC: BALANCING MOTHERHOOD AND OTHER CREATIVE ACTS
Posted by Charlotte on April 23, 2008
Tags: Books, Non-Fiction
edited by Bee Lavender and Maia Rossini
(Softskull Press, 2005, 284 pp, RRP £9.99)
http://www.mamaphonic.com/
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COLLECT RAINDROPS: THE SEASONS GATHERED
Posted by Charlotte on April 23, 2008
Tags: Books, Graphic
Nikki McClure
(Abrams, 2007, 112 pp, RRP £15.95)
http://www.nikkimcclure.com/
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GRASSROOTS: A FIELD GUIDE FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM
Posted by Charlotte on April 23, 2008
Tags: Books, Non-Fiction
Jennifer Baumgardener and Amy Richards
(FSG, 2005, 306 pp, RRP £6.84)
http://www.manifesta.net/
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HOW TO BECOME A FAMOUS WRITER BEFORE YOU’RE DEAD
Posted by Charlotte on April 23, 2008
Tags: Books, Non-Fiction
Ariel Gore
(Three Rivers Press, 2007, 265 pp, RRP £6.81)
http://www.arielgore.com/
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THE ETHICAL SLUT: A GUIDE TO INFINITE SEXUAL POSSIBILITIES
Posted by Charlotte on April 23, 2008
Tags: Books, Non-Fiction
Dossie Easton and Catherine Liszt
(Greenery Press, 1997, 279 pp, RRP £11.99)
According to therapist and sex author Easton and Liszt, a slut is someone ‘having all the sex and love and friendship they want’. The ethical part is where…