Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, by Kate Manne
Emma Rees praises a lively yet forensic analysis of systemic misogyny
Emma Rees praises a lively yet forensic analysis of systemic misogyny
Book of the week: Emma Rees salutes a wide-ranging study of women who passed as men or found other means to serve in combat
Emma Rees is unconvinced by an attempt to shed new light on sexual conflict in the Bard’s works
A fortnightly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Book of the week: Emma Rees praises a brilliantly wide-ranging study of the menopause across the centuries
Emma Rees rightly pleads for a summer holiday away from “Lacan, Kristeva and Foucault too…” (“Crumbs of comfort on the beach”, 24 August). Don’t we all need a break as well from Saussure, the father...
The iconic dictionary’s misogynist descriptions of female genitalia were ripe for revision, say Emma Rees and Ellie Stedall
Emma Rees is impressed by a wide-ranging study of how governments have encouraged and discouraged citizens to have children
From football to religious intolerance and from witchcraft to Hollywood excess: our reviewers select a book they have recently read and would warmly recommend to others and another they look forward...
Emma Rees celebrates a new generation of online feminist campaigners
There is in both Ann Oakley’s book Women, Peace and Welfare: A Suppressed History of Social Reform, 1880-1920 and in Emma Rees’ review of it an important omission – the significance of social workers...
Book of the week: Josh Cohen’s ruminations on slobbishness and lethargy will resonate with many readers
2018 was marked by strikes, pay scandals and the launch of the world’s first blockchain university
As some of the scholars who have been lucky enough to review books in the pages of Times Higher Education, we’d like to say thank you to Karen Shook, as she leaves the role of books editor for...
Book of the week: leaning in self-determinedly sidelines collective efforts to secure equality, says Emma Rees