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: 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 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: Eat, Pray, Love
A feminist perspective on social conditioning in Gilbert’s ‘Eat, Pray, Love.’
Read moreFeminist Book Review: Kaplan’s Miss Anne in Harlem
Feminist Book Review of Carla Kaplan’s ‘Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance’ (Harper Collins, 2014).
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