Spare Rib was a radical feminist magazine published from 1972 until 1993 and as such charts the period of so-called ‘second-wave feminism’ in Britain and the rise of the Women’s Liberation Movement.
The magazine was founded by two journalists, Marsha Rowe and Rosie Boycott, who were frustrated at the overwhelmingly male culture of newspapers and magazines and found the output of contemporary popular media to be increasingly out of touch with the realities of their lives. Ironically the name for the magazine came from a man, the journalist Claud Cockburn, who used the biblical story of Eve being fashioned from Adam’s spare rib as an allegory for women’s dependency on men.
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