Women Writers on Writing: Virginia Woolf’s “Angel in the House” and what it takes to be a #NastyWoman
In 1931 Virginia Woolf was asked to give a speech to the London/National Society for Women’s...
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Author: Theresa C. Dintino
Being Poor While Female in 19th Century Woman Writer Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853)
Nearly eighty years after the publication of woman writer Charlotte Brontë’s novel, Villette,...
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Theodora Kroeber: Stringing Together the Bone Beads of History
There was so much I learned from anthropologist, author and ethnographer, Theodora Kroeber’s Ishi...
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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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Judy Chicago’s The Birth Project (1980-1985): The Power of Parturition and Textile Arts
When I walked into The Birth Project exhibit in the Judy Chicago retrospective at the the de Young...
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Toni Morrison and A. J. Verdelle: For the Love of Words—The Connection Between Two Women Writers
A. J. Verdelle recently published a book called Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship...
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The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women’s Movement by Laura Swan
Around 1200 AD in Europe, communities of women often called beguines began to form. These women...
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Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: A 19th Century Woman Writer Calling Out White Supremacist Patriarchy
Wuthering Heights (1847) is so brutal in its exposure of life in the white supremacist patriarchy...
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Virginia Woolf’s The Years: Time, Presence and the “Conversational Nature of Reality”
I had read a lot about Virginia Woolf’s relationship to this novel before I read it. I read that...
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