The Feminist Review

They call her a man-eater, a super groupie, a whore. These words don’t apply anymore – Marianne Faithfull has mellowed. Instead the dame has acquired the younger generation’s wonder about her rich experience. But despite her recent achievements, an album and Irina Palm, many males think she is still what she was in the ’60s: [...]

Filed under: movies on December 26th, 2009 by Elen Farkas | No Comments »

As of this time, Chinese writer Wei Hui’s second offering, “Marrying Buddha,” is not yet banned in China. Her first novel, “Shanghai Baby,” earned notoriety after its release in 1999. The Chinese authorities put it on their watch list, declaring the author’s penchant for “Western decadence and debauchery” and her novel a bad influence to [...]

Filed under: books on December 20th, 2009 by Elen Farkas | No Comments »