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Review: The Mad Women’s Ball by Victoria Mas

June 22, 2021 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

The Mad Women’s Ball by Victoria Mas My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Mad Women’s Ball was an interesting read. Touching on dark themes using beautiful language and a muted tone, it follows a few short weeks in the lives of several women committed to the infamous (and real) Salpetriere in 1885 in the […]

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Review: Woman 99, by Greer Macallister

August 7, 2020 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

Woman 99 by Greer Macallister

This book was SO GOOD! Woman 99 is a brilliant, gripping story from an incredibly talented writer. 19th century San Francisco. Charlotte’s sister, Phoebe is committed to a local asylum when she tries to interfere in her mother’s matrimonial scheming. Charlotte hatches an heroic but extremely naive plan to get herself committed under a false […]

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Men at Work: why dads are missing out on time with their kids (and how to change it)

September 9, 2019 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

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For decades women have fought to gain the autonomy and satisfaction that comes with being in the paid workforce. We’ve been knocking on the doors of businesses, demanding to be let in. We’ve successfully campaigned for affordable, quality childcare, smashed glass ceilings and gained seats at the management table. The problem is, the traffic between […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book reviews, feminism, housework, non fiction, paid work

Review: Boys Will Be Boys, by Clementine Ford

September 28, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

Boys Will Be Boys by Clementine Ford

Clementine Ford’s first book, Fight Like a Girl was her bestselling memoir on growing up in a man’s world and how it shaped her writings on feminism. Boys Will Be Boys is her follow up book on power, patriarchy and the toxic bonds of mateship. It’s written in the same easy-to-read style. Fewer personal anecdotes […]

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Book review: A Superior Spectre, by Angela Meyer

July 21, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

A Superior Spectre by Angela Meyer

A Superior Spectre, by Angela Meyer, is based on a fascinating premise of time travel by haunting. Leonora is a fabulously strong 1860s character. Raised by her father in the Scottish Highlands after her mother dies in Edinburgh, she wants nothing more than to tend to the animals and crops. Then the local laird takes […]

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Book review: The Wild Dead, by Carrie Vaughn

July 15, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

The Wild Dead, by Carrie Vaughn

The Wild Dead, by Carrie Vaughn, is the second book in the Bannerless series. It’s part of a new wave of popular science fiction that, at its core, is about fertility and parenting. A very different kind of post apocalyptic world is imagined by Vaughn, one where people have figured out how to live together […]

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