Wildly Different: How five women reclaimed nature in a man’s world
I never tire of learning about women who defy the constraints of patriarchy. Sarah Lonsdale’s...
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Category: Nasty Women Writers: Feminist Booklist
The Cemetery of Untold Stories, by Julia Alvarez
Alma Cruz is the central character in Julia Alvarez’s most recent novel, Cemetery of Untold...
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The Awakened Woman: Remembering and Reigniting Our Sacred Dreams by Woman Writer Dr. Tererai Trent
In celebration of Black History Month, here’s an update on the woman Oprah Winfrey says was...
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‘A Purse of Her Own’: The Things She Carried by Kathleen B. Casey
It’s easy to live without thinking about how things were before we came into existence. Perhaps we...
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Frankenstein by Woman Writer Mary Shelley (First published in 1818)
I finally read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, considered one of the greatest horror stories ever...
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The Cherokee Rose: a novel of gardens and ghosts by Tiya Miles
Three women from different states, living different lives, are all called to the same location at...
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Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano
Drawn to memoirs and engaged in my own ancestral research, Jen Soriano’s book Nervous: Essays on...
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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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Where are the Women? The Girl Scouts’ Campaign for the First Statue of Women in Central Park by Janice Hechter
After returning from England in 1912, where she had learned about the Boy Scouts during a meeting...
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