Feminism, ah, there you have me. Hydra-headed, it can seem that it has as many manifestations as there are commentators about it, or women who live it. And that is of course as it should be, insofar as feminism concerns a core human experience, and one which involves men just as much as women. Its history is complex and not characterised by linear progress. Some argue that the debate about women’s rights and position in society has actually lost some of the ground gained in the 1960s and 1970s. Jacqueline Rose, academic, novelist, social commentator, and author of studies of the work of Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Christina Rossetti and Anne Sexton, is one who thinks so.The dust cover of Women in Dark Times promises us a “new template” where Rose’s