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‘The notion that M.I.A. isn’t politically meaningful because her motives are mixed and her ideas are screwed up is clueless about how pop music works – namely, all kinds of screwy ways.’

Lady Saw: Bring It

Poem:

Good Girls/Bad Girls by Judy Smith McDonough

‘Man has been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But for the first time in human history, that is changing – and with shocking speed.’

‘If these books were any better, it would mean the authors’ lives would’ve had to be a lot worse.’

Whither “lesbian”?

“I’m sorry,” Peggy says indignantly, “but Playboy is not irrelevant.”

Illustrated book excerpt:

‘The Pretty Women of Paris’ by Anonymous, Kate Rochester and Lindsay Brunnock

Adulturous Anne?

‘In the year before my first period, my mother gives me a book called Woman’s Body, An Owner’s Manual…’

Miroslav Tichy’s nonencounters with women

Tales about women who “lie down for artists,” in the service of their own writing

Unlike TV, Hollywood fears the female nerd

‘Helen Andelin’s Fascinating Womanhood told women what they wanted, and then explained how to get it’

Mosher’s sex survey

‘Did Herodotus invent his story of forced sex among the women of Babylon? Gender researchers think so.’

‘These days, watching an entire porn DVD is a marathon undertaking that requires as much suspension of disbelief as your average teeny-bopper vampire film’

Cool masculinity in Laura Restrepo’s hardboiled fiction

‘Remembered more for her violent death, Hypatia was one of the last great thinkers of ancient Alexandria’

Slideshow:

Literary Lionesses