Designer info to come Buy this book from Amazon.com Elaine Showalter's history of American women writers examines "women's relationship to the literary marketplace" (read Katha Pollitt's Slate review), and the illustration pretty clearly spells out what that relationship has been for most of our history: women have supported the canon but have rarely been granted access to the cente...

Men are better than women at spelling the word “liaison”; women are better at spelling everything else. Stephen King has written a novella that will be sold exclusively on Amazon’s Kindle 2 and includes copious...

As a gawky teen, one of my many nicknames was "Amazon." If only I had known that it was a backward compliment. OK, no it wasn't because that was high school, but for all of you Amazon women out there, know that it is praise. King Theseus of legend, the one who slayed the minotaur, fights the Amazons and returns with Antiope as his war bride. However, this story tells of the war, as well as de...

What I have done is scoured Amazon and other book related sites to compile what I think are the best looking women seen on covers within the fantasy and science fiction (broad stroke) genre per month for the year of 2008. Where appropriate I have noted Bookspotcentral reviews to the book itself or a book in the series we have reviewed. I put a few of my favorite things together to come up with the...

Readers may discern a disconnect between the prevailing economic mood and the relentless innovation of online superstore Amazon. Even as whole segments of the economy crumble, Amazon is spearheading a whole new consumer electronics category with the Kindle, and as if that wasn't audacious enough following it by releasing a bigger, more expensive version.Now Amazon is embarking on another bold effo...

Wow, it looks like Amazon.com really stepped in it today - and made an even bigger mess when it tried to scrape it off the bottom of its shoes. I'm not one who generally believes in conspiracy theories or cover-ups, but something does seem to smell about the massive de-ranking Amazon did of "adult books," many, if not most, of which fall under the "gay and lesbian" banner. Amazon is claiming

'Women [in Iraq] are being killed simply for being women," says Nadje Al-Ali when I meet her at her home in south London. "In Basra in 2008 a reported 133 women were killed for not 'being Islamic' enough. And these are only the ones that made it to be officially counted. I saw the police photos - they were horrific." Al-Ali's new book, What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occ...

Women were moving from crinolines to bustles as the 1870s began. One small revolution of sorts crept into what women wore. Clothing became modified to allow women some greater freedom to participate in sports. The 1870s saw more women taking up tennis, golfing, roller skating, and hiking. Skirts were shortened a little without raising shouts of immorality. Trousers, however, were still beyond the ...

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella Random House 2001 Now most of you know that I dont normally read chick-lit. We really shouldn't call it by that name because it is rather demeaning towards women. Usually books in this genre are about women written by women, and for women. But after having seen some previews of the movie Confessions of a Shopaholic that is due to open this week, ...

Ninety years after the vote was first extended to women in the UK - or to women over 30, in any case - OUP have gathered together 25 entries from the Dictionary of National Biography about major figures in the struggle for women's votes. Short biographies of three of the radical Pankhursts - Emmaline, Christabel and Sylvia - alongside constitutional reformer Millicent Fawcett are fairly dry, ...