In Growing Up Femalem in America, Eve Merriam chronicles the struggles of female lives that continue to exist today.
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Feminist Book Review: Growing Up Female in America by Eve Merriam
Feminist Book Review: Carrie Fisher’s The Princess Diarist
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
Read moreFeminist Book Review: Mother Reader by Moyra Davey
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
Read moreFeminist Book Review: Seven Brave Women
A children’s book, Seven Brave Women (Greenwillow Books, 1997) is based on the author’s grandmothers and mother, each woman strong and individually unique in her own right. In her introduction, Dr. Betsy Hearne, a writer and teacher of children’s literature on the college level, notes that
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: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
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.
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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