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GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
Inspiration from world-changing women
Here We Stand: Women Changing the World, edited by Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones (Honno, £10.99)
MIGUEL YOSHIDA explains the evolution and influence of the Cuban Casa De Las Americas in joining culture to the revolutionary struggle
ANDY HEDGECOCK is charmed by a skilful adaptation of Tove Jansson’s lyrical portrait of three generations of a family, overcoming grief
ALEX HALL treads warily through a messy, dialectical struggle fought in the mundane machinery of driving licences, criminal law, and birth registries
MICHAL BONCZA, FIONA O’CONNOR, JAMES WALSH and ANGUS REID review Atlas of Disappearance, Love Me Tender, Bouchra, and This Tempting Madness
Flitting between myth and the modern world, Medusa is determined to steer clear of human affairs. When her resolve crumbles, the result is petrifying in every sense
“Rebellious women have not been much celebrated in our society,” the editors correctly argue in the introduction to this inspiring collection from Honno, a co-operative press set up to support Welsh women’s writing.
The interviews and short essays from 17 British women activists it contains go some way to countering our male-centred history and contemporary political culture.
The editors have taken care to choose a diverse set of largely little-known campaigners in terms of their social class, ethnicity, age, politics and issue of concern. It’s difficult to choose favourites from all the extraordinary testimonies, though Emma Must’s very personal account of her involvement in the pivotal anti-road protest at Twyford Down in the early 1990s is particularly affecting.
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