Faith Ringgold’s Children’s Books: Bringing Hope and History to Life
Faith Ringgold’s children’s books arose out of her story quilts, one in particular: Tar Beach. A...
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Author: Theresa C. Dintino
Mary Ball Washington (American, 1707-1789): The “First Mother” of The United States of America was Independent and Strong in Character
Mary Ball Washington, the mother of George Washington, first President of the United States of...
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Lily Briscoe’s Radical Refusal to do Emotional Labor for a Man in Virginia Woolf’s Novel, To the Lighthouse
In 1983, someone finally put a name to an issue that had been stalking women for generations:...
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Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley: The Power of Female Friendship
Before this novel, published in 1849, between Jane Eyre and Villette, Shirley was only a man’s...
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Theresa Cha’s Influence on the Web of Women Writers
The web of women writers is the deeply interwoven connectivity of relationships between women...
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Tiya Miles and Saidiya Hartman: Critical Fabulation – Claiming the Narrative and Overriding the Supremacist Archive
In her book All That She Carried, woman writer Tiya Miles explores the lives of three women told...
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Mary Mackey: Visions of Other Worlds
Mary Mackey’s most recent book, Creativity: Where Poems Begin opens slowly and builds complexity...
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Barbara McClintock: Breaking “Illogical Barriers,” American Woman Biologist (1902-1992)
Barbara McClintock once stated that she was “not a feminist” which would, in effect, disqualify...
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Faith Ringgold: Quilting Truth into History
Someone told me to go see the exhibit “Faith Ringgold: American People” at the de Young museum in...
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