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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A powerful book that chronicles Ensler’s abuse by her father through his imagined apology.
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Top 5 feminist books for women
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Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife is a good book that shows Hemingway’s writing rules.
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Wurtzel praises difficult women in literature, music, and the movies.
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A lovely story about one girl’s
letter in a bottle connecting and strengthening the lives of women.
Ellen Jackson’s Cinder Edna provides a positive contrast to Cinderella, a tired fairy tale.
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In Growing Up Femalem in America, Eve Merriam chronicles the struggles of female lives that continue to exist today.
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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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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
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