Reviewing Women's Literature from a Feminist Perspective
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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Top 5 feminist books for women
Read moreA 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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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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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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Kate Chopin tell the radical tale of a woman who dares reject marriage an motherhood at a time when it was unthinkable and unwomanly.
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Carrie Fisher’s The Princess Diarist (Penguin, 2016) is a tell-all memoir that reveals her 3-month long affair with Harrison Ford in 1977, during the filming of Star Wars. She was only 19 years old; he was 35, married, and a
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