MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Solidarity in the housework place
SYLVIA HIKINS applauds a polemic against “cleanfluencers” and considers radical alternatives to current inequalities of housework
INSPIRING EXAMPLE: Celebrating the women's strike in Reykjavik, 2006
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
The Return of the Housewife: Why Women are Still Cleaning Up
Emma Casey, Manchester University Press, £19.98
EMMA CASEY’s book, The Return of the Housewife, exposes yet another example of how social media is being used to misinform and manipulate.
A reader in sociology at the University of York, Casey strips bare TikTok, Instagram, other digital sources flooded with images of “cleanfluencers” — women cleaning, tidying, putting things right, and linked to the concept of a life of love, contentment, self-care and positive thinking.
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