Woolf advises female writers to write as independent of men, with their own money and their own space.
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Feminist Book Review
Reviewing Women's Literature from a Feminist Perspective
Feminist 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
Read moreFeminist Book Review: The Story Sisters
Alice Hoffman’s The Story Sisters (Crown, 2009), a family saga, is a haunting examination of how the rape of a child affects not only the child herself, but also every single person in her life. No one is exempt from the evil
Read moreFeminist Book Review: A History of the Wife
Marilyn Yalom’s A History of the Wife (HarperCollins, 2001). A scholar and writer focused on deconstructing the ways with which institutions have normalized archaic attitudes toward women, Yalom uses this book to examine the role of the wife beginning from Ancient
Read moreFeminist Book Reviews: The Vagina Monologues
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
Read moreFeminist Book Review: The Enchantress of Florence
Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence (Random House, 2009) is perhaps the most beautifully crafted book in terms of the language and the intricate storytelling that revolves around its main characters. However, it is a book written by a man who
Read moreFeminist Book Review: Letters to Sartre
With the advent of technology, email, and texts, few writers continue to rely on the art of writing letters. For many, writing letters to one another—for love, for friendship, for keeping in touch—has become a lost art. And it is
Read moreFeminist Book Review: Eat, Pray, Love
A feminist perspective on social conditioning in Gilbert’s ‘Eat, Pray, Love.’
Read moreFeminist Book Review: Unbearable Weight
Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (U of California Press, 1993) is put together by Bordo’s various lectures, talks, and published essays on the liberal feminist ideology that the female body is a cultural construct designed
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