ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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The Home Stretch by Sally Howard
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GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
HOUSEWORK, and who does it, was a key concern of the second-wave feminism of the 1970s, the time of the international Wages For Housework movement and Ann Oakley’s influential study Housewife.
Since then, as journalist Sally Howard argues in her brilliant new book, the issue has dropped off the agenda of mainstream feminism.
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