Meta blocked advertising for a Barcelona theatre's stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own on Instagram and Facebook, citing automatic filtering of content mentioning feminism and civil rights. The theatre challenged the decision as censorship of a cultural work central to feminist literature.
Television's Jane Austen adaptations dominate, but five other 18th-century writers deserve screen attention. Works like Eliza Haywood's Fantomina, Samuel Richardson's Pamela, and Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote contain contemporary themes of reinvention, consent, and fandom that resonate with modern audiences.
Anna Holmes, founder of Jezebel and contributing writer at The Atlantic, explores the cultural and personal significance of saying no in her new book, The Power of No. Drawing on experts from sociology to linguistics, Holmes examines how women and girls are socialized to be obliging and argues that refusal is essential for autonomy and self-preservation.