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  • Interview with Maggie Humm

    Maggie Humm reflects on feminist criticism, life-writing, and Virginia Woolf’s influence.

    April 17, 2026
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Interview with Maggie Humm

Maggie Humm reflects on feminist criticism, life-writing, and Virginia Woolf’s influence.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • April 17, 2026
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What is extra in the ordinary, and why is the intimate often strange?

Eret Talviste explores Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys through scenes of solitude and ordinary freedom.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • January 19, 2026

Q&A with Françoise Vergès on Decolonial Feminism

Françoise Vergès reflects on the space she wanted to create and help to hold open for feminists and workers of colour.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • August 27, 2025

Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature: Q&A with the editor

Emily J. Hogg explores the creation of Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature, a collection on literary representations of ‘women’s work’.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • June 10, 2025

Q&A with the author of Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry

A Q&A with Jenna Clake, author of Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • February 21, 2025
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Chrystal Macmillan: champion for women’s equality, peace and justice

Meet a key figure of the women's movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

  • Edinburgh University Press
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Should we compare the violence of rape, war, racism, and ecocide?

…pacifist feminists have long argued we must by Selina Gallo-Cruz Content warning: mentions of rape and sexual harassment Rape, war, racism, ecocide: a litany of violence. Are they comparable—and, if so, should they be compared? Across generations, feminist pacifists have…

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  • June 13, 2024

Five Reasons to Read Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Today

by Stephanie Palmer, Myrto Drizou, and Cécile Roudeau The US author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) is best known, read and taught as the author of short regionalist fiction set largely in rural New England, a region she depicts in…

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  • March 27, 2023

The Woman Writer’s Playbook to Fighting Censorship    

This isn’t The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s Brave New World. But without soma.

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  • September 9, 2022
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