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Friday essay: why has philosophy ignored motherhood?

Over many seasons, I’ve observed a pair of masked lapwings hatch their chicks in a natural wetland close to my home. Nature did not prime these parents to care for their young. My lapwing neighbours would walk their downy chicks into the open and fly away when noisy miner birds…

The Conversation

8 Divinely Erotic Books to Kick Off Your Hot Nun Summer

With her new memoir, 'The Dry Season,' out now, Melissa Febos shares the surprisingly sexy books she read during her year of intentional celibacy.

Marie Claire

Medieval Women: In Their Own Words review – a bracing cold shower with Joan of Arc and co

A letter from the French saint and a lethal shopping list are among the stars of a mind-bending show of the words, mystical visions and everyday lives of women from 1100 to 1500

The Guardian - UK

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In brief: The Catchers; Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife; Every Man for Himself and God Against All – review

Xan Brooks’s second novel takes readers on a musical road trip through 1920s Appalachia; a story-packed history celebrates inspirational medieval women; and a characteristically unusual memoir from Werner Herzog

The Guardian - UK

Practice; Time and Tide; For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain – review

An Oxford student’s hopes and fantasies are slowly brought to life; a poetic study of the landscapes of Britain; and a remarkable novel about two 15th-century women

The Guardian - UK

From Luna Park to neo-Nazis – why the Middle Ages still matters to middle Australia

The medieval is part of the mosaic of modern Australia. Our nation’s heritage on this island continent is full of it: in aesthetics, institutions, laws, languages, identities, moralities. Indeed, the very idea of a university is medieval – a concept developed by the Catholic Church around the year 1100.

The Conversation

For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie – review

The fictionalised account of the meeting between medieval anchoress Julian of Norwich and Christian mystic Margery Kempe is a vibrant portrait of female courage

The Guardian - UK

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For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie review – a pocket epic

This electrifying debut compares the spiritual adventures of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich

The Guardian - UK

Three parallel lives shaped by patriarchy - Re-Sisters by Cosey Fanni Tutti review

ONE way of starting a book is to begin at the back and check out the references. These give you a good idea if you should buy and return to the…

The National (Scotland)

Re-Sisters by Cosey Fanni Tutti review – take three outsider women

The Throbbing Gristle co-founder communes with electronic pioneer Delia Derbyshire and 15th-century mystic Margery Kempe in her account of female artists who fought to be heard

The Guardian - UK

‘We were not willing to be silenced’: Cosey Fanni Tutti on the unsung heroine of electronic music

In this extract from her new book ‘Re-Sisters’, Cosey Fanni Tutti remembers the musician Delia Derbyshire, who – like her – was undermined and mistreated for being a powerful woman in a male-dominated music industry

The Independent UK

Cosey Fanni Tutti: ‘I was lucky I got thrown out of home. I see it as a gift’

The Throbbing Gristle co-founder and performance artist is seen as an elder stateswoman of the avant garde. She talks about legacy, and the liberation of revisiting her darkest experiences for a new memoir

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 books about women written out of history

For centuries scholars have busied themselves with the ‘victors’ of history, who were usually men. Now a new generation is broadening the picture to include the lives most of us lead

The Guardian - UK

Femina by Janina Ramirez review – a revelatory study of medieval women’s lives

From a ferocious Norse warrior to an outrageously original autobiographer, the female characters changing our understanding of the past

The Guardian - UK

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