Bride Wars is not a feminist movie, but it does reveal many things about gender roles and, more specifically, what it means to be a woman. So what does it have to say about femininity?
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Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea is an origin story for Jane Eyre’s madwoman in the attic. Mrs Rochester’s history as told here is one of blame, black magic and betrayal.
Success, by Martin Amis
Success looks an awful lot like failure in Martin Amis’s novel. Half-brothers Gregory and Terry trade places in this sharp-edged tale of class warfare.
Don’t look now, by Daphne du Maurier
Readers who come to du Maurier’s short story collection ‘Don’t Look Now’ may be disappointed – not because the writing is bad, but because it’s too good.
The Breakthrough, by Daphne du Maurier
Du Maurier’s short story puts the ghost in the machine. Don’t look now …
The Chimp Paradox, by Prof Steve Peters
Is crazy-eyed rage your party trick? Do you dabble in passive aggressive Post-its? That’ll be your ‘inner chimp’.