I was late in the day to the Blurred Lines phenomenon. At a conference where I was talking about gender and sexual consent a colleague...
On Wednesday I gave a talk on Rewriting the Rules – focusing on monogamy and non-monogamy – for the Gender & Sexuality in the Pub...
The inevitability of treating partners as things? Romance in Ruby Sparks (and why I like the ending)
Recently I got round to watching last year’s Ruby Sparks on DVD. I’d been looking forward to watching this film for some time because it...
I did a podcast interview last week for Feminist Current about whether monogamy was compatible with feminism. The podcast deals with some of the historical...
Rewriting the rules is now out on kindle! Just in time for Christmas shopping. Get it now on Amazon!
A couple of really nice online reviews of my book this week. BJ Epstein for Wales Art Review, who engages with the idea of anti...
Stuart Jeffries’ great piece in The Guardian last weekend quoted me as saying – about suggestions that infidelity might be a good thing for relationships...
As part of my writing on Fifty Shades of Grey I’m thinking about gender and other aspects of social identity in the novels. I thought...
“We all struggle with relationships but now the rules have changed. We need a new rule book, and this is it.” –Dorothy Rowe, Psychologist and Writer....
Last weekend there was a fascinating article in The Observer about psychological research on body image: Uncomfortable in our skin: the body-image report by Eva Wiseman. The...