by Lucy Hounsom | November 17, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe often talk about a woman in a man’s world, but what does this really mean – and is it accurate? What is a man’s world? A place where women are excluded from performing certain roles or jobs? Or are shackled to...
by Lucy Hounsom | October 20, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSome of our favourite heroes are characters who might be deemed less than heroic by society. Smugglers, reckless hot-heads, gamblers and gangsters – everything that law and order should squash at the earliest...
by Lucy Hounsom | August 4, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhile World War 2 saw greater opportunities for women on the home front while so many working-age men were away at war, there are many more examples of hard times bringing curbs on women’s rights. We only have...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 12, 2022 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHave you ever wandered into a bookstore and found yourself baffled by the shelving of some books? Have you ever read a review that labeled a book written for adults as YA only to bemoan the amount of adult content?...
by Lucy Hounsom | April 28, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFairy tales are both timeless and personal. We see their themes and motifs repeated in stories spanning centuries.But while the characters and scenarios might be familiar, the morals change over time. The story’s...
by Lucy Hounsom | April 14, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhen Madeline Miller published Circe, it heralded the start of a new wave of feminist retellings, in which writers revisited well-known classics in order to tell the stories of those excluded from the dominant...