Sandra Cisneros: Bridging Borders, Mexican-American Women Writer (1954)
A house on Mango Street. Sounds exotic, doesn’t it? Turns out the house and street are not so...
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A house on Mango Street. Sounds exotic, doesn’t it? Turns out the house and street are not so...
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Update: Since discovering scientist Katalin Karikó and the role she’s played in the...
Read MorePosted by Maria Dintino | Jul 13, 2021 | Nasty Women Writers
Spending summer 2021 in New Hampshire, I drive through Nelson quite often these days. Each time I...
Read MorePosted by Maria Dintino | Jun 29, 2021 | Nasty Women Writers: Women and Ambition
On an excursion to visit novelist Willa Cather’s gravesite in Jaffrey, New Hampshire last month,...
Read MorePosted by Maria Dintino | Jun 15, 2021 | Nasty Women Writers
Since reading Sonya Renee Taylor’s book The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical...
Read MorePosted by Maria Dintino | Jun 1, 2021 | Nasty Women Writers
Last week, my sister Theresa and I took advantage of the opportunity to visit the grave of...
Read MorePosted by Maria Dintino | May 18, 2021 | Nasty Women Writers: Feminist Booklist, Nasty Women Writers: STEM
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded a medical degree. She was the first woman in...
Read MorePosted by Maria Dintino | Apr 20, 2021 | Nasty Women Writers
I thoroughly enjoyed my recent reading of Willa Cather’s 1918 novel My Ántonia. There is something...
Read MorePosted by Maria Dintino | Apr 6, 2021 | Nasty Women Writers, Nasty Women Writers: Activists
On February 4, 2021, Betty Friedan would have turned 100 years old. Although she passed away 15...
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