50 years eh? and some of these things are still having to be reiterated/rediscovered/restated, SIGH: The clitoris, pain and pap smears: how Our Bodies, Ourselves redefined women’s health. But what is great about it is that it did change, that it didn't fossilise, and that editions in other countries were adapted to their particular circumstances - ( Read more... )

The most recent dodgy 'open source' journal urgently soliciting me to contribute a paper in Some Field I Do Not Work In has the following beguilement to potential contributors:
"Open" makes this Journal unique. "Open" goes global, historical, cultural; actual, theoretical, detailed; artistic, scientific, sociopolitical. "Open" goes outer space and ( Read more... )

Yet another in the intermittent series of Stuff Women Could Do In the Past Contrary to The Usual Facile Preconceptions of A Woman's Place and Appropriate Conduct:

Unmarried Victorian lady translates novels that one assumes the average uvl was not even supposed to know the existence of, let alone, read, being as how they were not only in French (tut ( Read more... )

Dave Calhoun, who is actually their Film Editor, in this week's Time Out:
There's often something charmingly eccentric about the English titles of Pedro Almovodar's films, as if Spain's greatest living director spent just a few minutes pondering their translation with the aid of an online Spanish-English dictionary.
If, Mr Calhoun, you want to make ( Read more... )