Matt Haig is author of Notes on a Nervous Planet and Evie and the Animals, published by Canongate. CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZIt is no exaggeration to say that Feminism and Linguistic Theory by Deborah Cameron changed my life. Men and women were equal now, and there was nothing holding us back but ourselves: our irrational, trivial, overemotional, jealous and unintellectual selves. But Cameron’s book made me realise that words and language were not just simple tools I used to shape my thoughts. One book that changed my perspective on this was Eric Williams’s Capitalism and Slavery, originally published in 1944.

Source: The Guardian May 25, 2019 09:56 UTC