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“... Feminists used to know what they wanted. They wanted women to share the rights, the opportunities and as much of a place in the sun as men enjoy. Variations on this agenda were agreed in pioneering days, and shared until very recently by liberals, Marxists and the ordinary feminist in the street. In the Eighties a lot changed. Carol Gilligan’s In a Different Voice, published in 1982, was a major catalyst ...”

“... If I Do’, a song composed by Porter Grainger and Everett Robbins, first performed by Anna Meyers and often associated with Bessie Smith. The song is all about independence, and Holiday seems to return to sassy life as she sings it. ‘If I go to church on Sunday,’ one verse runs, ‘Then cabaret all day Monday/Ain’t nobody’s business if I ...”

“... Academy of Dramatic Art, but by then she was doing modelling work. She came to the attention of Diana Vreeland, the first visionary of the Bacall look, and Vreeland got Louise Dahl-Wolfe to take the photo that caught Slim Hawks’s eye. Still, showing it to Howard was risky: Hawks was in the habit of seducing young actresses. There’s some confusion over ...”