A review of A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 by Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green. A review of Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters by Dena Goodman. Is it really true that women haven’t been writing brainy philosophical novels until now? Women are often the cruellest critics of other female writers — where does this anger come from, and at what expense? Ariel Levy reviews When Everything Changed by Gail Collins (and more and more and more) and You’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe: Sarah, Michelle, Hillary and the Shaping of the New American Woman by Leslie Sanchez. Sandra Tsing Loh reviews Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace by Ayelet Waldman and The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer. There is a tendency to think that only men treat women

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