For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Feminism

October 2025 Issue

Nicola Shulman

Keeping Mum

The Book of Revelations: Women and Their Secrets from the 1950s to the Present Day

By Juliet Nicolson

Miranda Seymour

Fights & Tights

Bluestockings: The First Women’s Movement

By Susannah Gibson

March 2024 Issue

Lucy Lethbridge

Tear Off Those Corsets

Trailblazer: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon – The First Feminist to Change Our World

By Jane Robinson

December 2023 Issue

Wendy Moore

In the Beginning was the Womb

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By Cat Bohannon

November 2023 Issue

Joan Smith

Oops!… He Did It Again

Toxic: Women, Fame and the Noughties

By Sarah Ditum

October 2023 Issue

Eileen M Hunt

Feminism vs Big Brother

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life

By Anna Funder

Julia

By Sandra Newman

July 2023 Issue

Tess Little

Weird Sisters

Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

By Lauren Elkin

July 2022 Issue

Joan Smith

What Women Really Want

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

By Louise Perry

December 2021 Issue

Martha Rampton

Wave Formations

Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1950–2020

By Sandra M Gilbert and Susan Gubar

April 1984 Issue

Sheila MacLeod

Compassionate Odyssey

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

By Gloria Steinem

A Nice Girl Like Me

By Rosie Boycott

March 2020 Issue

Sophie Duncan

Fighting for the Freedom of the City

Recollections of My Non-Existence

By Rebecca Solnit

March 2020 Issue

D J Taylor

Fiction, Feminism & Fake Vicars

A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago

By Lennie Goodings

February 2020 Issue

Joan Smith

Ladies Who Punch

Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

By Helen Lewis

October 2019 Issue

Mia Levitin

#MeToo in the Making

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

By Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey

October 2019 Issue

Sarah Ditum

Beyond the Second Sex

Becoming Beauvoir: A Life

By Kate Kirkpatrick

February 1982 Issue

Celia Haddon

Female Friends

Surpassing the Love of Men

By Lillian Faderman

December 1981 Issue

Margot Strickland

Spectral Apparel

The Ghost in the Looking Glass

By Christina Walkley

December 1981 Issue

Elizabeth Longford

Womanly Behaviour

Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

By Carol Dyhouse

March 1994 Issue

Jessica Mann

Will Appeal Even to Anti-Wimmin Readers

A History of Women in the West Vol IV: Emerging Feminism from Revolution to World War

By Geneviève Fraisse & Michelle Perrot (edd)

July 2019 Issue

Arabella Byrne

Them Too

Three Women

By Lisa Taddeo