Under the skin

Home, history and love in patriarchy

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  • Published 20170502
  • ISBN: 9781925498356
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

Everyone forgets that the real force behind the feminist movement was individual women’s disappointment with men. Even though equal pay for equal work and reproductive rights soon took centre stage, the rage that had welled up began in male–female relationships.

bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search For Love
(William Morrow, 2002)

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Sophie Allan

Sophie Allan is the founding editor-in-chief of the not-for-profit publisher Chart Collective, and the outgoing assistant prize manager of the Stella Prize. Her writing...

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