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Women's Review, 1985 - 1986

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCIP CWLA 3/18

Scope and Contents

Issues 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. Including:
Issue 1) an interview with Dora Russell and articles on the Lesbian Novel, women and cabaret, and black women in Britain;
Issue 3) interviews with Grace Paley, US author, and Keri Hulme, Booker Prize winning author of The Bone People; article on feminism and science fiction; and a tribute to Winnie Mandela;
Issue 5) articles on women bodybuilders, on Madonna (singer), and on the cult of the woman author; autobiographical fragment by the poet Anna Wickham; and an interview with Toni Morrison, Afro-American author;
Issue 7) articles on women's playwrighting, Scottish literature, Margaret Atwood and The Handmaid's Tale, women and musical instruments, and the Women's International Film Festival; interviews with Victoria Wood, Helene Cixous (French theorist), Francesca Odell (photographer - concerning The Valleys Project in south Wales), and with Ama Ata Aidoo (writer and Ghana's Minister of Education); autobiographical article by Angela McRobbie; account of Anna Wickham's last poem, found at her death in 1947; tribute to Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (d. aged 98 in 1986);
Issue 9) interviews with Fay Weldon and with Kathleen Bestsko (playwright); articles on Irina Ratushinskaya (poet and Soviet prisoner) and Bessie Head (South African novelist, d. 1986).




Dates

  • Creation: 1985 - 1986

Creator

Biographical / Historical

A co-operative and a limited company.

Extent

1 file(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Originator(s)

Women's Review Ltd

Finding aid date

2008-11-04 15:49:42+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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