Rosalind Coward
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Rosalind Coward is a British academic, journalist and writer.
She has been a columnist for The Guardian
from 1992 and was previously a regular contributor to The Observer
and Marxism Today
. She wrote a regular column for The Guardian' s Comment pages between 1995 and 2004. From 2005-2008 she was the author of the regular "Living With Mother" column for the Saturday Guardians Family section, about the problems faced by those caring for dementia sufferers.
Her career in journalism includes feature writing for many national newspapers and magazines including the London Evening Standard
, Daily Mail
, Cosmopolitan
and the New Statesman
.
She is known for her writing on feminist issues and in cultural semiotics
. Her books including Female Desire and Our Treacherous Hearts are still widely cited, as is the essay "Are Women's Novels Feminist Novels", originally written for Feminist Review.
She has a strong interest in environmental issues, and wrote a regular column for The Ecologist
magazine. Since 2005 she has been a director of Greenpeace UK. She is currently Professor of Journalism at Roehampton University
.
She has been a columnist for The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
from 1992 and was previously a regular contributor to The Observer
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
and Marxism Today
Marxism Today
Marxism Today was the theoretical journal of the Communist Party of Great Britain and was disestablished in 1991. It was particularly important during the 1980s under the editorship of Martin Jacques...
. She wrote a regular column for The Guardian
Her career in journalism includes feature writing for many national newspapers and magazines including the London Evening Standard
Evening Standard
The Evening Standard, now styled the London Evening Standard, is a free local daily newspaper, published Monday–Friday in tabloid format in London. It is the dominant regional evening paper for London and the surrounding area, with coverage of national and international news and City of London...
, Daily Mail
Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...
, Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan (magazine)
Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...
and the New Statesman
New Statesman
New Statesman is a British centre-left political and cultural magazine published weekly in London. Founded in 1913, and connected with leading members of the Fabian Society, the magazine reached a circulation peak in the late 1960s....
.
She is known for her writing on feminist issues and in cultural semiotics
Semiotics
Semiotics, also called semiotic studies or semiology, is the study of signs and sign processes , indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication...
. Her books including Female Desire and Our Treacherous Hearts are still widely cited, as is the essay "Are Women's Novels Feminist Novels", originally written for Feminist Review.
She has a strong interest in environmental issues, and wrote a regular column for The Ecologist
The Ecologist
The Ecologist is a British environmental publication founded in 1970 by Edward Goldsmith. It addresses a wide range of environmental subjects and promotes an ecological systems thinking approach through its news stories, investigations and opinion articles. The Ecologist encourages its readers to...
magazine. Since 2005 she has been a director of Greenpeace UK. She is currently Professor of Journalism at Roehampton University
Roehampton University
The University of Roehampton is a campus university in the United Kingdom, situated on three major sites in Roehampton, south-west London.-History:...
.
Books
- Mandela: The Authorised Portrait (Many publishers worldwide), 2006 (interviews only)
- Diana: The Portrait (Many publishers worldwide), 2004
- Sacred Cows (Harper Collins), 1999
- Our Treacherous Hearts (Faber), 1993
- The Whole Truth (Faber), 1989
- Female Desire (HarperCollins), 1984
- Patriarchal Precedents (Routledge), 1983
- Language and Materialism (with John EllisJohn Ellis (media academic)John Ellis is a British former TV producer and professor of media arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Ellis studied English at the University of Cambridge 1970-3 and at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at University of Birmingham 1973-6...
Routledge), 1977
Articles
- 'The Monarchy' in Pulling Newspapers Apart ed Bob Franklin, Routledge 2008
- '"This Novel Changes Lives": Are Women's Novels Feminist Novels?' reprinted in ed E.Showalter The New Feminist Criticism (1985); M.Eagleton Feminist Literary Theory (1996) etc.