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Feminist Book Review: Christian Grey’s Character in 50 Shades of Grey

July 30, 2019July 29, 2019
Marina DelVecchio
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A few years ago, I wrote a book review of the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy for HerCircle from a feminist perspective. It’s getting a lot of interesting comments there, heated rebuttals, really, but on my own blog, I want to

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Feminist Book Review: The Awakening by Kate Chopin

June 19, 2019June 19, 2019
Marina DelVecchio
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Kate Chopin tell the radical tale of a woman who dares reject marriage an motherhood at a time when it was unthinkable and unwomanly.

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Feminist Book Review: Carrie Fisher’s The Princess Diarist

July 27, 2018July 26, 2018
Marina DelVecchio
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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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Feminist Book Review: True Confessions:Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School

December 9, 2017November 9, 2017
Marina DelVecchio
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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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Feminist Book Review: The Grand Permission:New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood

December 2, 2017November 9, 2017
Marina DelVecchio
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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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Feminist Book Review: A Room of One’s Own

November 18, 2017November 9, 2017
Marina DelVecchio
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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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Feminist Book Review: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

November 11, 2017November 9, 2017
Marina DelVecchio
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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.

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Feminist Book Review: Un/Masked: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour

November 28, 2016June 22, 2017
Marina DelVecchio
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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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Feminist Book Review: A History of the Wife

November 5, 2016November 1, 2016
Marina DelVecchio
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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

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Feminist Book Reviews: The Vagina Monologues

November 3, 2016November 1, 2016
Marina DelVecchio
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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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