In Her Name: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Woman Writer and Activist (1826-1898)
A while back, I came upon a term I had not heard before, the Matilda Effect. It’s defined as a...
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The Eventual Friendship of Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Florence, Italy 1849
Exploring the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning while a diehard fan of Margaret Fuller, I’d be...
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50 Women Sculptors: A Monumental Resource
While preparing to interview Cheryl Robson, who initiated the establishment of the Virginia Woolf...
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Meridel Le Sueur: An Unrelenting Voice of the People
In Poet Warrior, Joy Harjo names several women who have mentored and supported her throughout her...
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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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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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Nasty Characters: Chinese Literature through the Lens of Feminism
Introduction I began to study Chinese because I was vastly impressed by a mediocre translation of...
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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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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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