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In the Name of Love is an inventive look at love using popular songs, poems and novels to illustrate the all-too-familiar pattern of trial and error -- set against an unquestioning acceptance of what love is. Jill Tweedie focuses on a variety of individuals from past and present in her personal enquiry into the past, present and future possibilities of love.
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All for love, and nothing for reward. Is love the rosy, many-splendored thing that poets proclaim--or is it something altogether darker and more disturbing? Jill Tweedie's eloquent and disarming account of her own experience of love vividly illustrates how painfully and slowly she learned a truth very different from the popular myth. She explores the very nature, process, and purpose of this most powerful of human forces--and the wrongs that have been done in its name over the centuries--and concludes that perhaps love is not all we need. This is both a searing portrait of love (and the passion it inspires) and a deeply personal and affecting account of this mysterious force and its effect on one woman's life.
For the first time in one paperback volume, these wickedly funny and now classic letters between Martha and her more liberated sister, Mary, were the inspired creation of Jill Tweedie. They brilliantly reflect the gap in many enlightened women's lives between their theories and their day-to-day practice. These ground-breaking books, published to high acclaim in their separate hardcover volumes, are a fitting tribute to Jill Tweedie's remarkable style, wit, insight anf humor.
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When hundreds gathered in 1970 for the UK's first women's liberation conference, a movement that had been gathering strength for years burst into a frenzy of radical action that was to transform the way we think, act and live. In the 40 years since then, the feminist movement has won triumphs and endured trials, but it has never weakened its resolve, nor for a moment been dull. The Guardian has followed its progress throughout, carrying interviews with and articles by the major figures, chronicling with verve, wit and often passionate anger the arguments surrounding pornography, prostitution, political representation, power, pay, parental rights, abortion rights, domestic chores and domestic...
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