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← Back to all issuesGranta 115: The F Word
Summer 2011
From Ghana to Great Britain, New Delhi to New York, the balance of power remains tipped towards men. Granta 115: The F Word explores the ways in which feminism continues to inform, address and complicate that balance.
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No Grls Alod. Insept Mom.*
A.S. Byatt
‘I already had a horror of being defined as a wife.’
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The Children
Julie Otsuka
‘They learned that some people are born luckier than others and that things in this world do not always go as you plan.’
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A Train in Winter
Caroline Moorehead
‘It was clear that not all would, or could, or would choose to, survive.’
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The Ojibwe Week
Louise Erdrich
‘Have you seen a beautiful naked antelope lady running through the streets?’
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The Sex Lives of African Girls
Taiye Selasi
Begin, inevitably, with Uncle. There you are, eleven, alone in the study in the dark...
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Other Women
Francine Prose
‘Feminism is as basic to my sense of self as the fact that I have brown eyes.’
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Hot-Air Balloons
Edwidge Danticat
‘We should all know that life and death are beyond our control.’
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Un-Possible Retour
Téa Obreht & Clarisse d'Arcimoles
‘It confirms my belief that the universal exists in particularity.’
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We’re Not in This Together
Janice Galloway
‘Abstain was the only advice we were getting.’
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Filling Up With Sugar
Yuten Sawanishi
‘The vagina was the first part of her mother’s body that turned to sugar.’
