“I actually used to sing much higher, but I felt people weren't taking me very seriously, so I lowered my voice, believing that it would help me stand out. Now I sing quite low... well, for a female anyway.” —Lana Del Rey
Tag: feminism
Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft: A Sublime Lineage
In challenging at once the prevailing political attitudes of the time, and the literary ones, Wollstonecraft lays a foundation for her daughter, Mary Shelley, to continue these efforts. Wollstonecraft was arguing for a sense of radical inclusion, that by ironing out the divisions between men and women mankind might become, in her words, ‘more wise and virtuous’, with a greater sense of equality. Wollstonecraft died giving birth to her daughter, Mary, a fact which haunted Shelley throughout her life.
“O, Portia! take my heart”: Ellen Terry and the Aesthetics of Costume
“In the 1820s and 1830s […] theatre productions in London were becoming more elaborate in their setting, dressing and ‘getting up’” (Taylor 1993, 3). Shakespeare productions in the Victorian era were marked by a sumptuous and decadent attention to visual artistry.
Sketches of a Gaze: Céline Sciamma’s Watchful Cinema
In writer-director Céline Sciamma’s landmark lesbian film Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), set in eighteenth-century France, the young noblewoman Heloïse (Adèle Haenel, who is Sciamma’s former partner) refuses to sit for a portrait. Soon to marry an unknown Milanese man, for whom the portrait is destined, this is the only rebellion she can wage.
Help Yourself: How to Read Lorrie Moore
Emily almost poetically describes the emotions evoked by Lorrie Moore's book 'Self-Help'. She describes the techniques that Moore uses to create the atmosphere that is felt by readers.
10 Years of Celebrating Female Achievements
Rebecca O'Brien, Editor 2017-18, summarises our aims and a selection of our articles for our Tenth Anniversary.
100 Years On
A collection of important feminist dates to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the 1918 Act which gave British women (over 30 with property qualifications) the ability to vote.
2017 The Year of the First Female Supreme Court President
Rebecca discusses how important it is to have a female feminist as President of the Supreme Court.
Ding Ling’s ‘Miss Sophia’s Diary’: Gender and the Act of Writing in 1920s China.
Ellie writes about how relevant Ding Ling's analysis of gendered language is to our modern day disparity in degree results.
Jane Goodall: A significant shaper of modern-day thought
Ellen Pasternack writes about how important Jane Goodall's work was in increasing our understanding of animal behaviour. Her work led to a revolution in scientific thought as to the humankind's place in the animal kingdom.
Bluestocking Oxford 