Top 5 feminist books for women
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Reviewing Women's Literature from a Feminist Perspective
Feminist Book Review: Top 5 Feminist Books for Women
Feminist Book Review: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife is a good book that shows Hemingway’s writing rules.
Read moreFeminist Book Review: Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Wurtzel praises difficult women in literature, music, and the movies.
Read moreFeminist Book Review: Beyond the Ripples by Dede Montgomery
A lovely story about one girl’s
letter in a bottle connecting and strengthening the lives of women.
Feminist Book Review: Cinder Edna by Ellen Jackson
Ellen Jackson’s Cinder Edna provides a positive contrast to Cinderella, a tired fairy tale.
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: 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
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