Figuring by Woman Writer Maria Popova
As we transition from summer to autumn, perhaps spending a bit more time indoors, consider...
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Category: Nasty Women Writers: Feminist Booklist
The Women We Become: Myths, Folktales, and Stories About Growing Older by Ann G. Thomas
A friend and I exchanged books for our birthdays. Being in our 60s, the books we gifted one...
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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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Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo: Healing Hearts and Nations
“My innate impulse is healing, which is also standing up for justice, which can heal hearts and...
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A New Narrative: It’s Hester’s Turn
When a great novel is penned and the author passes on, that story doesn’t change much if at all,...
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Sandra Cisneros’ “Women Without Shame”: Poetry for a New Year
Almost 30 years in the making, this collection of poems is to be savored. This latest book of...
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Mona Chollet – In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial, or What’s Up with Powerful Women Being Called Nasty?
I was immediately attracted to Mona Chollet’s book when I spotted it. I was on one of my bookstore...
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women – And Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura (2021)
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded a medical degree. She was the first woman in...
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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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