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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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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The Memoir of Glückel of Hameln (1646-1724): The First Life Story Written by a Jewish Woman
In The Life of Glückel of Hameln: A Memoir, said to be the first life story written by a Jewish...
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Painting Historic Women on Plates! In the 1930s Nasty Woman Artist Vanessa Bell Did It Too.
In the 1930’s Vanessa Bell and her partner and fellow artist Duncan Grant returned much of their...
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