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Feminist Book Review: Mother Reader by Moyra Davey

June 15, 2018June 14, 2018
Marina DelVecchio
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Photographer Moyra Davey, overwhelmed by the birth of her first-born, began to read women’s narratives about mothering and writing in an effort to discover voices that articulated the ambivalence she felt as a first-time mom. From this came the idea

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Feminist Book Review: True Confessions:Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School

December 9, 2017November 9, 2017
Marina DelVecchio
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Most famous for her work with Sandra M. Gilbert in writing The Madwoman in the Attic, Susan Gubar edits and presents to us True Confessions: Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School (W.W. Norton, 2011), a collection of narratives contributed by 27

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Book Review: Cinderella Ate My Daughter

November 25, 2017November 9, 2017
Marina DelVecchio
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Peggy Orenstein’s Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From The Front Lines of the Girlie-Girl Culture (Harper, 2011) addresses the conflict that arises when culture begins to define little girls. A mother and writer, Orenstein grapples on a personal level with

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Feminist Book Review: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

November 11, 2017November 9, 2017
Marina DelVecchio
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Simone de Beauvoir’s memoir shows how she went from dutiful daughter to one of the most fierce and prominent feminist figures in the world.

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Feminist Book Review: Wedding Toasts I Will Never Give by Ada Calhoun

May 4, 2020May 1, 2020
Marina DelVecchio
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Ada Calhoun’s Wedding Toasts I Will Never Give (2017, W. W. Norton & Company), was originally centered on an article she had written for the New York Times in 2015. It went viral because it was written after a fight she had had with her

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Feminist Book Review: The Apology by Eve Ensler

April 27, 2020April 27, 2020
Marina DelVecchio
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A powerful book that chronicles Ensler’s abuse by her father through his imagined apology.

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Feminist Book Review: Top 5 Feminist Books for Women

August 24, 2019July 29, 2019
Marina DelVecchio
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Top 5 feminist books for women

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Feminist Book Review: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

August 17, 2019July 29, 2019
Marina DelVecchio
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Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife is a good book that shows Hemingway’s writing rules.

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Feminist Book Review: Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

August 10, 2019July 29, 2019
Marina DelVecchio
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Wurtzel praises difficult women in literature, music, and the movies.

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Feminist Book Review: Beyond the Ripples by Dede Montgomery

August 4, 2019August 4, 2019
Marina DelVecchio
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A lovely story about one girl’s
letter in a bottle connecting and strengthening the lives of women.

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Feminist Book Review: Cinder Edna by Ellen Jackson

August 3, 2019July 29, 2019
Marina DelVecchio
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Ellen Jackson’s Cinder Edna provides a positive contrast to Cinderella, a tired fairy tale.

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Feminist Book Review: Christian Grey’s Character in 50 Shades of Grey

July 30, 2019July 29, 2019
Marina DelVecchio
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A few years ago, I wrote a book review of the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy for HerCircle from a feminist perspective. It’s getting a lot of interesting comments there, heated rebuttals, really, but on my own blog, I want to

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Feminist Book Review: This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray

July 6, 2019June 19, 2019
Marina DelVecchio
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Luce Irigaray’s “This Sex Which Is Not One” (1977) is one that all women must read. She argues that women do not have one sex; they have multiple sex organs all over their bodies, not to mention two lips that encompass our pleasure.

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Feminist Book Review: The Laugh of the Medusa by Helene Cixous

June 29, 2019June 19, 2019
Marina DelVecchio
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In “The Laugh of the Medusa” (1975), Helene Cixous, a French feminist and writer, rallies women to do the one thing that will liberate their voices, their bodies, and their sexuality: to write themselves.

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