A powerful book that chronicles Ensler’s abuse by her father through his imagined apology.
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Feminist Book Review: The Apology by Eve Ensler
Feminist Book Review: Top 5 Feminist Books for Women
Top 5 feminist books for women
Read moreFeminist Book Review: This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray
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.
Read moreFeminist Book Review: Growing Up Female in America by Eve Merriam
In Growing Up Femalem in America, Eve Merriam chronicles the struggles of female lives that continue to exist today.
Read moreFeminist Book Review: The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin tell the radical tale of a woman who dares reject marriage an motherhood at a time when it was unthinkable and unwomanly.
Read moreFeminist Book Review: True Confessions:Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School
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
Read moreFeminist Book Review: The Grand Permission:New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood
A few years ago, I got my hands on a terrific book that exemplified my struggle with writing and mothering. Edited by Patricia Diensfrey and Brenda Hillman, The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, is the kind of
Read moreBook Review: Cinderella Ate My Daughter
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
Read moreFeminist Book Review: A Room of One’s Own
Woolf advises female writers to write as independent of men, with their own money and their own space.
Read moreFeminist Book Review: Un/Masked: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour
Donna Kaz’s Un/Masked: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour (Skyhorse, 2016), chronicles the birth of a feminist who uses feminism to overcome a history of intimate partner violence that prevented her from seeing herself as a strong and vibrant
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