Gender Studies

Speaking to your brain while hitting you in the gut: The Basement’s Julia Croft double bill, reviewed

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Sam Brooks reviews If There’s No Dancing at the Revolution, I’m Not Coming and Power Ballad, two plays by rising star dramturgist Julia Croft on now at The Basement. Winter brings us many things. It’s the weather for holding your hot water bottle tight, for drinking coffee for warmth as well as staying awake and … Read more

Is it true that most men can’t be fucked reading women authors?

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A top-level inquiry by an anthropologist (a bookseller, actually) into gender buying habits. The book world, like the world-world, shows sad signs of gender bias. To work in a bookshop is to become an anthropologist of sorts, specialising in the genus Biblio Lector (or book reader/buyer, for those who are not fluent in the anthropologists’ … Read more