Mae's Library

It's a very interesting look at the politics at play surrounding sex work. The book is quite short, 130+ pages divided into 10 chapters, and generally an easy read. Sometimes, however, sentences were quite convoluted and opaque. But regardless, I believe this to be a vital work if you're to have an actual informed opinion surrounding sex work, one that is based on the realities of the field and not just the misinformation and scare-mongering that garners mainstream attention.

Fantastic book! An impressive overview of the development of capitalism and the positions of the working classes and women within that development, with an extra eye for related processes in the colonial Americas.

A large focus, naturally, is on the development, goals, and effects of the witch-hunts.

Very good book, might (should) make you rather angry.

Strange essay, it seems part historic overview, part thought-experiment, and part satire. But it has some thought-provoking sections, and is well worth a read.

An interesting text. It's an overview of ingredients in whitches brews from Early Modern English texts, but this overview itself is significantly aged by now. There is a certain joy to be found in someone presenting themselves as the modern sceptic, while proclaiming their own now-outdated beliefs.

For those shocked by the amount of references to dead babies: the witch-hunts were bolstered by a population crises caused by rampant poverty, which in turn was caused largely by privatisation of lands, stagnation of wages, and underpaying of workers. These times saw a great amount of legislation against women's rights to work and especially to control procreation. The Medieval era had seen women use many herbs and rituals to prevent pregnancy, but the witch-hunts significantly reduced women's options.

Amazing book, I was so captivated I finished it in one 5 hour sitting.

Full of mystery and humour, watch the women of a community learn to really communicate about their lives and loves, and all the differences that can exist in a group that might, to outsiders, seem homogenous.

Perhaps not super approachable for the general read, this book is formidable for the academically inclined. There is no narrative, it is an overview of the evidence and the substantiated speculation by field.

Basically a really complicated pamphlet, though it has some good sections.

It was alright, too many forced jokes to my liking and the occasional throwaway line that proved the author used to write for the Daily Mail.

Fascinating book, part travel story, part anthropological and linguistic treatise. It's good for thinking.

Old, but a pretty easy read. Some elements of the social critique could still be applied today.

Good book, though not my favourite. But that's just my dislike for thoroughly unlovable protagonists coming through.

Self-portrait of the artist as a very cheeky child. Highly entertaining.