Reviewing Women's Literature from a Feminist Perspective
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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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
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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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Woolf advises female writers to write as independent of men, with their own money and their own space.
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Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues (Villard, 2008), written in 1994, was such a powerful text that Ensler put it on stage. In doing so, her work became a phenomenon that inspired V-Day, a global movement run by activists in an
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Feminist Book Review discusses Ariel Levy’s 2005 ‘Female Chauvinist Pigs,’ a feminist book in which she defines Female Chauvinist Pigs as “women who make sex objects of other women and of ourselves.”
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Feminist Book Review: Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’
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Feminist Book Review of Mary Wollstonecraft’s ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Women’
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