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Who’d want to be a man?

Adam Phillips: A New Model of Sexuality, 19 June 2008

Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire 
by Lisa Diamond.
Harvard, 333 pp., £18.95, March 2008, 978 0 674 02624 7
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... of physiological responses are the stuff of this kind of scientific research. And even though, as Lisa Diamond says, ‘there are no “safe” scientific findings,’ the research usually wants to provide us with facts we can’t argue with but just have to face. What makes the findings unsafe (like sex) is that no one can ever know what their ...

Absurdities

Angela Carter, 2 July 1981

Original Sins 
by Lisa Alther.
Women’s Press, 608 pp., £6.95, May 1981, 0 7043 2839 9
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Amateur Passions 
by Lorna Tracy.
Virago, 192 pp., £7.95, April 1981, 0 86068 197 1
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... Lorna Tracy approaches the matter like the most elegant of subversives, palming her razor blades. Lisa Alther has tackled it head-on, and it seems to have reduced her to a numbed cynicism. It is of considerable sociological interest that Original Sins, which describes political radicalism digging its own grave, should swoop up the US best-seller lists at this ...

You can only talk for so long

Rosa Lyster: Start with the Goya, 20 October 2022

Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale 
by Sean O’Driscoll.
Sandycove, 368 pp., £18.99, June 2022, 978 1 84488 555 8
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The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist 
by Anthony M. Amore.
Pegasus, 272 pp., £12.99, February 2022, 978 1 64313 529 8
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... thefts turn out to be run of the mill criminals stealing for run of the mill reasons.When the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911, it was widely supposed that the theft could only have been pulled off by devilishly clever operatives, working on behalf of an evil millionaire. In fact, it was stolen by a handyman who had once been employed by the Louvre and who kept ...

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