From the mid twentieth century, second-wave feminism prompted interest from both historians and novelists in recovering voices of women past. Where only sparse archival records were extant, a revised practice biography was necessary, but differences arising disciplinary approaches have led to debate on how this is best achieved. This essay analyses two contemporary publications that draw attent...

Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ (1982) is the first book an eight-books set. complete set in form a diary and each presents title character Mole’s life changing perspectives. This article focusses on Even though entries contain Adrian’s thoughts reflections various issues such as literature, friendship, love, sex, marriage, parenting motherhood, his frustration about mo...

In a recent talk given at a North American University, a prominent feminist scholar from the United States observed that the contributions of Black women in mass political movements have been given short shrift in both conventional male-centred narratives of revolutionary movements (such as the Black Power movement in the USA), and mainstream feminist accounts of women’s activism, because inter...

Starting in the 1960s, feminists argued that the discipline of psychology had neglected the study of women and gender and misrepresented women in its research and theories. Feminists also posed many questions worthy of being addressed by psychological science. This call for research preceded the emergence of a new and influential body of research on gender and women that grew especially rapidly...

This article provides a historical context of evolutionary psychology and feminism, and evaluates the contributions to this special issue of Sex Roles within that context. We briefly outline the basic tenets of evolutionary psychology and articulate its meta-theory of the origins of gender similarities and differences. The article then evaluates the specific contributions: Sexual Strategies The...

Feminism has fought the trivialization of women's experiences, championed women's security, and insisted on respect for women's choices. In so doing, feminism has developed important perspectives on the complicated connections between what gender means as it plays itself in people's lives, and the inequalities of power and authority that structure much of human experience. Here, I put a few of ...