This, I think, does count as actual rediscovery of a neglected, if not entirely forgotten, author of the 60s/70s: Lost Beneath the Waves of Time: Jane Gaskell in/and the ’60s (and reading that I realise that she was a lacuna in those studies of Angry Young/Rebel Women Writers of the same period, but probably she was just too Out There and In Genre ( Read more... )

But at least I have forcibly restrained myself from entering into a Twitter brawl when I saw this cross my timeline more than once.
Somebody promoting a novel which describes a young woman discovering photography as 'a new medium' in the 'turn of the century', i.e. c. 1900.
WOT.
By that time more or less anybody could be a photographer, because ( Read more... )

Today's entry in the weekly column in Guardian Weekend on 'My Life in Sex' isfrom a man who finds that being very well-endowed is by no means all it's cracked up to be when it comes to actually having enjoyable sex with a partner.
Plausible.
But the Below the Line is full of weak jokes and blokes saying they wish they had that problem, and the ( Read more... )

The statue of John Knox in the courtyard of the Divinity School has one arm raised and looks as if he is about to give someone (?Calvin) a high-five.
I may not have looked at the Naomi Mitchison papers, but the Mitchison fangirl in me was well chuffed to see a really great portrait of her in later life in the National Portrait Gallery (no postcard ( Read more... )

This is an interesting article about a neglected woman artist of the early C20th, but:
Y O Y does someone who purports to be a woman and an art historian make this statement:
“Throughout history, paintings of beautiful women were done by men.”
Well, that's you seen off, Angelica Kauffmann, Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Mary Cassatt.
Okay, perhaps ( Read more... )

This emerges from a comment I made to someone else's post, mentioning Dr Lillias Hamilton (1858-1925).
While there has been a significant number over time of books (biographies, novels, also plays, TV programme, talk of a movie) about James Barry, Hamilton was another remarkable medical figure who transcended the supposed limitations on her gender ( Read more... )

However:
Literature’s greatest comebacks (and why they are so often made by men) - which possibly overlooks the women who never got the chance to make a comeback, either because of the kind of crippling writer's block that afflicted Antonia White, were overwhelmed by the demands of marriage, motherhood and domesticity, or who were felt to have ( Read more... )

Within eight years most doctors will be women • But men still hold on to very top jobs, says report
I'm hmmm about this, because there are still a lot of sexist male dinosaurs stomping around the upper reaches of the medprof, and I'm not persuaded that they are all of a generation soon to be gone from us. However, if "Men who are interested in ( Read more... )