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Gripping girl power points
A new history of young women offers a lucid account of continual cultural and political struggle, says JOANA RAMIRO
JAN WOOLF ponders the works and contested reputation of the West German sculptor and provocateur, who believed that everybody is potentially an artist
PAUL DONOVAN enjoys a brutally honest rags to riches memoir of the actor’s life, even if it clearly lacks any political insight
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely biography of a contemporary of Marx and Engels who advocated revolutionary socialism
RICHARD CLARKE welcomes a study that extends an understanding of Marxism beyond human society to encompass the whole of nature
Despite an underwhelming finale, FIONA O CONNOR relishes a vivid exploration of the Cinecitta of Pasolini and Fellini at their height
Girl Trouble: Panic And Progress In The History Of Young Women
by Carol Dyhouse
(Zed Books, £8.99)
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