It's official. Swansea women's feminist bookclub is starting on-line on 28th September.

Swansea Women's Centre is being forced to close, because there aren't enough volunteers to keep it running, or funds to cover future rent and utility bills. The doors will be closing, but the spirit of the women's centre lives on in cyberspace, as a Virtual Women's Centre on this website.

Instead of employing professional staff to run classes we'll be doing that radical, old fashioned thing, studying in non-hierarchical circles, and getting together to do stuff that interests us personally without a paid member of staff to hold our hands. This online bookclub for uppity women is the first project in the new style. It will be up to the club members to contribute to the online discussions and keep the group alive. If nobody uses the forum it'll fizz out into nothingness, having cost nothing more than a hundred or so hours of my time spent wrestling with forum installation and configuration settings on the website.

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Fact books

• Loving to Survive - Dee L. R. Graham
• Pornland - Gail Dines
• The Equality Illusion - Kat Banyard
• Are Women Human? - Catharine A. MacKinnon
• Neither Man nor Beast - Carol J. Adams

Fiction books

• Blue - Abigail Padgett