An Interview with Dame Margaret Drabble

Dame Margaret Drabble is one of Britain's leading novelists and critics. She has published seventeen novels, two acclaimed literary biographies (on Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson), and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature, for its 1985 and 2000 editions. The following interview has several key areas of focus: literary influences; the literary prize; realism as a mode, and Drabble's use of it; the state of the nation novel; gender and 'women's writing'. We discussed the author's novels as they arose while talking of these subjects

A scoping review of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use treatment interventions for sexual and gender minority populations

BackgroundAlcohol, tobacco, and other drug use are among the most prevalent and important health disparities affecting sexual and gender minority (SGM; e.g., lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) populations. Although numerous government agencies and health experts have called for substance use intervention studies to address these disparities, such studies continue to be relatively rare. MethodWe conducted a scoping review of prevention and drug treatment intervention studies for alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use that were conducted with SGM adults. We searched three databases to identify pertinent English-language, peer-reviewed articles published between 1985 and 2019. ResultsOur search yielded 71 articles. The majority focused on sexual minority men and studied individual or group psychotherapies for alcohol, tobacco, or methamphetamine use. ConclusionOur findings highlight the need for intervention research focused on sexual minority women and gender minority individuals and on cannabis and opioid use. There is also a need for more research that evaluates dyadic, population-level, and medication interventions

The Millstone

Called ahead of its time by many who talk about it, The Millstone tackles a lot of the problems of the 1960s. It comments on the sexual liberation of women, unplanned parenthood, single motherhood, and women in academic settings. It’s a good reminder of why feminism is important. Traditional moralism is back on the rise, and this is a great piece of commentary on it from a time when the debate was at its height. Note: This book belongs to the Is it a romance? section. It\u27s up to the reader to decide!https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ul_popularromance/1071/thumbnail.jp

Some Thoughts on the Novel

Drabble Margaret. Some Thoughts on the Novel. In: Caliban, n°27, 1990. Roman et société en Grande-Bretagne depuis 1945. pp. 9-13

Doris Wall Larson : Home Truths

Richmond points to Larson's belief system - namely, a lament for loss of innocence - to account for shifts and fragmentation in the artist's constructions using clocks, beds and cabinets. Biographical notes. 2 bibl. ref

The woodlanders

xli, 420 p. : map ; 21 cm

Warrior queens and women’s history: deconstructing stereotypes in Margaret Drabble’s A Natural Curiosity

In A Natural Curiosity (1989), Margaret Drabble evokes history and myth, especially the Celtic people of the east and north during Britain’s Roman period, through language and images, and suggests that the past informs contemporary life, that history cannot necessarily be understood as separate from or unconnected to the present. To invoke the past, Drabble employs and critiques the dichotomous stereotypes that typically inform representations of warrior women: the savage female versus the patriotic (and maternal) leader, and the voracious woman versus the chaste maiden. She also demonstrates that the characteristics upon which understandings of warrior women rest are not necessarily negative, not necessarily fixed, and not necessarily gendered. Ultimately, by blurring past and present, Drabble articulates an understanding of women that defies a singular or fixed definition while she simultaneously emphasizes the cyclical rather than linear nature of women’s history