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The Home Stretch by Sally Howard
Acute analysis of why domestic labour still falls disproportionately to women
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
HOUSEWORK, and who does it, was a key concern of the second-wave feminism of the 1970s, the time of the international Wages For Housework movement and Ann Oakley’s influential study Housewife.
Since then, as journalist Sally Howard argues in her brilliant new book, the issue has dropped off the agenda of mainstream feminism.
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