Drawn from the pages of Spare Rib, Britain's most influential feminist magazine, this anthology gathers fiction and poetry written during the height of second-wave feminism.

Hard Feelings captures the movement at ground level: the intimate textures of work, motherhood, sexuality, domestic life, friendship, anger and political awakening as they were being lived and written. The contributors span established and emerging writers including Alice Walker, Fay Weldon, Helen Dunmore, Natalia Baranskaya, Judith Barrington and many others, producing a collection that is formally varied but remarkably cohesive in spirit.

Forty years on, many of these pieces remain strikingly contemporary, while others preserve precisely the tensions and debates that shaped feminist writing in the late twentieth century. A fascinating companion to the history of Spare Rib and an increasingly difficult anthology to find.

The Women's Press paperback, first edition thus, 1979. Very good condition with light shelf wear and mild age toning to the pages. Binding is firm and the text remains clean throughout.