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Correction Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-13
Published in Women: a cultural review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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About Our Contributors Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-22
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2024)
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‘Noticing Ann Quin’ Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Leigh Wilson
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2024)
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Living with the Ancestors Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Robin Hackett
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2024)
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Ruins, Repairs and Returns Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Jade Elizabeth French
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2024)
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The Teen Witch and the Complexity of Care Under Capitalism Through a Case Study of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Tina Belinda Benigno
The contemporary teen witch figure is conceived of and represented in a way that is interrelated with young adult media culture. Through an examination of the show Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, a...
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Feminist Depictions of Coercive Control in ‘Domestic Noir’: Ilsa Evans’s Broken (2007) and Kathryn Heyman’s Storm and Grace (2017) Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Josephine Browne
Concurrent with increasing social and legal discussions of coercive control, literary scholars are turning their attention to analyses of an emergent genre labelled ‘domestic noir’. Adding to earli...
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Colonized Brown Motherhood: Em and the Big Hoom, Imelda and Indian Mothering Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Shivalika Agarwal, Nagendra Kumar
Mothering is a bond mothers share with their children, a feeling they experience subjectively. Yet motherhood is more often seen as a construct to be followed and by which to be judged. This societ...
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Crafting Connections: Creating Counterspaces to Academic Diversity Labour Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Linta Varghese, Eve Dunbar
In this piece we discuss the workspace precarities of women of colour academics in higher education in the United States between the early 2000s and early 2020s and share some thinking about how on...
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Unrequited Labour of Care in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Jahnavi Misra
In this article, I explore questions of care and selfhood from both the humanist and post-humanist perspectives, as they play out in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. Ishiguro’s novel portrays a ...
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The ‘Organized Anxiety’ of Labour Leader Nannie Helen Burroughs Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Danielle Phillips-Cunningham
Educator and labour leader Nannie Helen Burroughs and her colleagues at the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (NACW) experienced ‘organized anxiety’ during the early twentieth century a...
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Introduction: Imagining and Reimagining Emotional Labour Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Alexandra Peat, Emily Ridge
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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#Girlboss Feminism and Emotional Labour in Leigh Stein’s Self Care Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Stella Bolaki
Abstract: Leigh Stein’s Self Care: A Novel is a satire of the world of the ‘wellness influencer’ that targets a breed of corporate white feminism pejoratively known as ‘girlboss feminism’. Self Car...
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‘Activism for Introverts’: Sensitivity Reading and the Discourse of Emotional Labour Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Sarah Brouillette
This article considers sensitivity readers—not as part of a woke mob controlling creative writers, but instead as a largely hidden, contingent, underpaid workforce. Based on interviews with sensiti...
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‘Required to Care’: Emotional Labour and the Futures of Work in Catherine Lacey’s The Answers Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 John Macintosh
The concept of emotional labour pervades recent popular discourse. However, this discourse tends to emphasize the unpaid work performed in personal and familial relationships. This erases Arlie Rus...
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Fabricating Feelings in the Post-War Workplace: Muriel Spark’s The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960) and Christine Brooke-Rose’s The Middlemen (1961) Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Emily Ridge
This essay focuses on two satirical works of the early 1960s: Muriel Spark's The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960) and Christine Brooke-Rose's The Middlemen (1961), both of which are set in and around s...
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‘It’s a Good Thing to Take an Interest’: Care and University Women in Dorothy L. Sayers’s Gaudy Night and Barbara Pym’s No Fond Return of Love Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Alexandra Peat
This essay explores discourses of emotional labour in the university novel. It focuses on Dorothy L. Sayers’s Gaudy Night (1935) and Barbara Pym’s No Fond Return of Love (1961), two novels written ...
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The Baby Makers: Representing Commercial Surrogacy in Film and Television Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Liam Connell
This essay attempts to define the genre of the surrogacy thriller as a prominent form for recent representations of commercial surrogacy. Placing this genre into a history of film representations o...
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Interrogating Emotional Labour: Sacrificial Labour and the Ethics of Care in Chan Ho-Kei’s Second Sister Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan
This essay discusses representations of labour within the capitalist system of contemporary Hong Kong as portrayed in Chan Ho-Kei’s Second Sister. It shows how these representations take the forms ...
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Girl, Woman, Screen Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Tanya Kant
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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Honouring Margaret Walker Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Dana Murphy
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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About Our Contributors Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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Time Travelling with Naomi Mitchison Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Suzanne Hobson
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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A Memoir’s Exploration of Love and Loss Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Diya Gupta
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2023)
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Remembering the Suffragette for Interwar Feminism: Vera Brittain’s Honourable Estate Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Barbara Green
Abstract This article is concerned with Vera Brittain’s 1936 feminist historical novel, Honourable Estate, focusing on the novel’s efforts to represent a feminist past as it contemplates its present moment of ‘transition’. Brittain meets the difficult task of making sense of the present moment by juxtaposing two backward-looking literary forms—the feminist historical novel and the diary—which suggest
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Women Writers, Generic Form, and Social and Political Activism Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Lise Shapiro Sanders, Carey J. Snyder
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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Sofia Khatun’s Silsila: A Genealogy of Foremothers in Print Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Sreejata Paul
Abstract Between 1922 and 1925, Sofia Khatun, a Muslim woman writer, published over 25 essays in some of Calcutta’s most widely circulated Bengali periodicals. Among these essays, her accounts of women’s position in premodern Greece, Rome, India and Egypt and her speculation on the originary sites of women’s movements are particularly interesting. Khatun here challenges the primacy of western actors
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Introducing Lilo Linke and Hilary Newitt: Storm Jameson’s Anti-Fascist Collaborations in the 1930s Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Jake O’leary
Abstract This article examines Storm Jameson’s literary collaborations with other women writers in the 1930s, reading them as a mode of anti-fascist activism. Jameson collaborated with Lilo Linke on her 1934 memoir-travelogue, Tale Without End, and with Hilary Newitt on her 1937 sociological study, Women Must Choose, providing editorial assistance, access to publication and introductions to both texts
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Afterword: Women’s Writing and Feminist Archival Activism Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Catherine Clay
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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About Our Contributors Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-07
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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Silent Fanfare Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Catherine Kelly
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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Writers and Their Workshops Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Lee Bangerter
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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Excavating Theatre History: Text, Performance and Biographies Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Ciara O'Dowd
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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An Unlikely Couple Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Gretchen Gerzina
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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Correction Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-15
Published in Women: a cultural review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Intersectionality and Fourth-Wave Feminism in Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Sara Strauss
Abstract From the 2010s the feminist movement has gained new impetus through widespread transnational activism, fierce resistance to continuing misogyny and sexual violence as well as by fresh currents in feminist thought. Thus, journalists and scholars characterize the proliferation of both grassroots activism and renewed discourses on women’s rights in the media and in academic, political and public
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From Utopia to an Eco-Feminist Critical Dystopia: Diane Cook’s The New Wilderness Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Merve Sarikaya-Şen
Abstract In this article, I discuss Diane Cook’s The New Wilderness (2020) as an eco-feminist critical dystopia that presents the precarious nature of human lives connected with the more-than-human world. The novel achieves this through Bea and Agnes’s journey from the City to the Wilderness that is mainly constructed by balancing utopian and dystopian elements and thus offering a critical look at
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Introduction. Women’s Stories of Crisis: Portals to Relationality, Vulnerability and Resistance? Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Julia Kuznetski, Silvia Pellicer-Ortín
Abstract This special issue aims to provide a deeper insight into cultural responses to various contemporary crises, such as migratory movements in recent history and, at the very present moment, pandemics, climate change and such other unsettling societal processes as political and economic ruptures, armed conflicts or environmental disasters. In particular, our aim is to draw attention to the way
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Black Poetics of Affect: Intimate Public Encounters with Strangers in Claudia Rankine’s Just Us (2020) Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Rocío Cobo-Piñero
Abstract This article aims to explore how Jamaican-born writer Claudia Rankine displays the ways in which, as a black woman and a first-generation migrant settled in the United States, she ‘regularly has to negotiate conscious and unconscious dismissal, erasure, disrespect, and abuse’ (Rankine [2020] Just Us: An American Conversation, New York: Penguin, p. 23). Just Us: An American Conversation is
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‘All My Life is Built on Memories’: Trauma, Diasporic Mourning and Maternal Loss in Roma Tearne’s Brixton Beach Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Sonya Andermahr
Abstract This article examines the representation of women’s experience of migration in the era of transnational crisis in Roma Tearne’s Brixton Beach (2010) in terms of maternal loss, silenced voices and ungrievable lives (Butler 2016. Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? London, New York: Verso). Beginning and ending dramatically with the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London, the novel depicts the
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Vulnerability, Relationality, Fragmentation and Networking in Linda Grant’s A Stranger City (2019) Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Silvia Pellicer-Ortín
Abstract Set during the immediate months before and after Brexit, Linda Grant’s novel A Stranger City turns London into a microcosm where the misfortunes linked to migration, racism, violence, terrorism, capitalism and individualism make a group of dissimilar characters’ lives intersect around the mysterious death of an ‘unidentified’ migrant woman. Grant’s literary works tend to represent female characters’
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Precarious Bodies in Precarious Times: Herstorical Transcorporeality in Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Julia Kuznetski
Abstract This article draws on the intersection of the metahistorical, corporeal and material turn in contemporary cultural theory, with a focus on Emma Donoghue’s novel The Pull of the Stars (2020), incidentally written to commemorate a centenary of the Spanish flu in Britain, and suddenly appearing prophetic of the COVID-19 situation in 2020–2021, with unintentional, but poignant parallels. The methodological
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Travelling Archetypes Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Agnes Woolley
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Mina Loy’s ‘Collage Strategies’ Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Jade Elizabeth French
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Modernist Women’s Writing and the First World War Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Daniel Abdalla
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Nuancing N/native Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Erica Gene Delsandro
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Reasonable Doubts Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Allan Hepburn
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 1-2, 2023)
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A Farewell to Fay Weldon Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Deborah Philips
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 1-2, 2023)
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About Our Contributors Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-25
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 34, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Women Poetry Prize Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-12
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2022)
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About Our Contributors Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-12
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2022)
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‘If I had any luck, he’d be a corpse’: Harriet Vane and the Psychogeographic Nature of Detection Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Sarah Martin
Abstract This article examines the role of women within the culture and society of the interwar period, or, precisely, the 1930s. Through examining the crime fiction of Dorothy L Sayers and focusing specifically on Have His Carcase the figure of the female detective is shown to be inherently psychogeographic. The article, then, analyses the way in which Harriet Vane functions as a psychogeographer
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Somatic Communication: Motherhood and Transference in Layli Long Soldier’s Poetry Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Stephanie Papa
Abstract Layli Long Soldier’s debut collection of poetry, WHEREAS, has been primarily framed as a defiant counter-discourse to the allusive 2009 federal apology to native communities, particularly her poems addressing the document directly. Little attention, however, has been given to Long Soldier’s unpredictable aesthetic choices as she translates her experience of motherhood, daughterhood, and womanhood
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Transculturalism, Transformation and the Visual Arts in Contemporary British Women’s Poetry Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Antony Huen
Abstract This article establishes the works of women poets in the UK, especially those of non-white and mixed-race ancestries, as major players in poetic ekphrasis. Ekphrasis has been defined as ‘the verbal representation of a visual representation’ (Heffernan 3). Building on the critical studies of the ekphrases by twentieth-century women poets, this article recognizes the increasingly multicultural
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Reconsidering the Visual Sphere of Femininity in Tehran Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Negar Zojaji
Abstract A large proportion of the designed visual sphere of Tehran consists of murals. One noteworthy feature in the evolution of these murals that has been little investigated is the portrayal of women. This article explores women’s reception of and preferences about the visual sphere of femininity in Tehran. It draws on the analysis of both officially commissioned and unsanctioned visual representations
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New Bearings for Jean Rhys Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Sophie Oliver
Published in Women: a cultural review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Ecology of Transformation Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Sita Balani
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2022)
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Mapping Feminist Book Fortnight: Regional Activism and the Feminist Book Trade in 1980s Britain Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Eleanor Careless
Abstract Feminist Book Fortnight was a signal event in the history of feminist publishing, but its history has not yet been written. Throughout the latter half of the 1980s, the Fortnight promoted feminist literature in the UK and Ireland and helped to sustain and power a revolution in feminist publishing. Drawing on the archives of Spare Rib magazine, this article analyses the often fierce tension
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About Our Contributors Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-12
Published in Women: a cultural review (Vol. 33, No. 3, 2022)
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An Interview with the Poet Glenda George Women: A Cultural Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Lewis Johnson
Abstract This interview with the poet Glenda George and Lewis Johnson (PhD student, University of Liverpool) took place over email during December 2021–March 2022. George discusses her early work in the British Poetry Revival, examining the impacts of class and gender on her experience as a writer. George describes her role in the development of the poetry magazine Curtains (1971–1978), discussing