You Don’t Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie’s Dark Side, by Orly Lobel Book of the week: An intellectual property battle over two dolls puts the focus on market competition, Laura Frost finds By Laura Frost 18 January
Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure Book of the week: Meet the women whose lusty revolution changed the sexual culture of the US, says Laura Frost By Laura Frost 7 September
Writing an Icon: Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin, by Anita Jarczok Laura Frost wonders if an ambitious author’s tales of erotic adventure were sexed up by others By Laura Frost 9 February
Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire, by Carol Dyhouse Book of the week: The perennial female fantasy of man embodies a host of contradictory types, says Laura Frost By Laura Frost 2 February
Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say about Their Lives, by Leigh Gilmore Book of the week: our distrust of female testimony in all its forms is proof feminism still has far to go, says Laura Frost By Laura Frost 12 January