I was once again just amazed at the breadth of women involved since the beginning of bicycle, and the constant battles they faced just to be able to ride. Continue reading
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Book review: The Gendered Brain
Anyway, The Gendered Brain takes a look (okay, an axe) to the belief that men and women’s brains are different. It looks at decades of scientific progress on the subject, poking holes in badly constructed studies and highlighting the social conditioning that happens as a person develops. Continue reading
Book review: A Crown of Wishes
Pretty cover. Pretty fluffy. Continue reading
Book review: Rebel footprints
Okay, everyone just buy this book because it is fabulous. Especially if you live in London and love its history. It’s 10 chapters of radical protest, documenting both campaign successes and failures throughout various bits of London – from Battersea to Bermondsey and Clerkenwell to Shoreditch. It is populated with the most amazing people, union … Continue reading
Book review: Space Usagi
Usagi Yojimbo is one of my favourite comic series. It’s run for many years and is up to volume 27. I am awaiting volume 26 to read and then I shall have read them all! Not part of the series (I suppose) is a one off book called Space Usagi which follows the adventures of … Continue reading