{"product_id":"hard-feelings-fiction-poetry-from-spare-rib-edited-by-alison-fell","title":"'Hard Feelings: Fiction \u0026 Poetry from Spare Rib' edited by Alison Fell","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"606\"\u003eDrawn from the pages of \u003cem data-start=\"100\" data-end=\"111\"\u003eSpare Rib\u003c\/em\u003e, Britain's most influential feminist magazine, this anthology gathers fiction and poetry written during the height of second-wave feminism.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"606\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"297\" data-end=\"312\"\u003eHard Feelings\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"606\"\u003eForty 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 \u003cem data-start=\"1079\" data-end=\"1090\"\u003eSpare Rib\u003c\/em\u003e and an increasingly difficult anthology to find.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1166\" data-end=\"1220\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45812828078163,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-12T161306.856.png?v=1783909055","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/hard-feelings-fiction-poetry-from-spare-rib-edited-by-alison-fell","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}