For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Sociology & Sexuality and Gender

September 2022 Issue

Nina Power

Beyond the Manosphere

Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

By Richard V Reeves

December 1989 Issue

Maureen Freely

The Boat to Oslo

The Great Sex Divide

By Glenn Wilson

February 1994 Issue

Alain de Botton

Dismal Bumpkins

Fathers and Daughters

By Sue Sharpe

March 2019 Issue

Joan Smith

Female Unfriendly

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

By Caroline Criado Perez

David Profumo

Down on Hite

Women and Love: The New Hite Report – A Cultural Revolution in Progress

By Shere Hite

November 1992 Issue

Lynne Segal

Obscene Publication

Pornography: Women, Violence and Civil Liberties

By Catherine Itzin

April 1992 Issue

Marybeth Hamilton

Those ‘Foolish Women’ Who Stepped Out of Line

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women

By Susan Faludi

July 1983 Issue

G S Rousseau

Outsiders/Insiders

Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters

By Hans Mayer (translated by Denis M Sweet)

June 1984 Issue

Emma Tennant

At Your Own Risk

The Politics of Sexuality

By Anne Snitow, Christine Stansell, Sharon Thompson (Eds)

December 1984 Issue

Quentin Crisp

Pitiless Portrait

Queens

By Pickles

January 1988 Issue

Clair Wills

How to Spot a Misogynist

Men Who Hate Women and The Women Who Love Them

By Dr Susan Forward and Joan Torres

Michael Bywater

Stiff Competition

O: The Intimate History of the Orgasm

By Jonathan Margolis