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/ 14 December 2005
Is anyone going to mourn the impending death of the word ”spinster”? It is described in the Cambridge dictionary as referring to ”a woman who is not married, especially a woman who is no longer young and seems unlikely ever to marry”. In Finnish, Bulgarian and Arabic the equivalent translates literally as ”old maid”.
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/ 20 October 2004
There was a time, not so long ago, when Andrea Dworkin thought her life was over. Just more than four years ago, she wrote an article for New Statesman magazine about being drug-raped in a hotel room in France. Dworkin’s account of her rape, like much of her writing (including the feminist texts Pornography: Men Possessing Women and Intercourse), polarised opinion.