Philobiblon

An interesting survey about British women’s attitudes – yes it is in the Telegraph, and you have to slice through the shocked rightwingers commentary, but the figures would seem to be solid enough, and on one question at least, not great, but not awful…

Nearly two women in five (38 per cent) regards herself as a feminist and, surprisingly perhaps, the highest figure (41 per cent) is in the age group of 55 or more. The figure falls to 34 per cent for those aged 18 to 24.

(Possibly wisdom coming with age…)

And speaking of older women, a quite horrifying story from the Independent about the death of Brenda Hean, a Tasmanian anti-dam activist. It seems highly likely that her plane was sabotaged – and we’re only talking 1972 here, so it seems possible that those responsible might be still alive.

But on the good news front, the women’s rugby world cup is coming to Britain in 2010. (Which will give me an excuse to dust off my old team jacket and wear it somewhere or another, I’m sure…)

And over on My London Your London I’ve an account of a visit to the Renaissance Faces exhibition at the National Gallery – for a different view I decided to go around just looking at the women (well, OK, I did peek at the men too, but I concentrated on the women.)