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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Girlfriends & Improbable Dreams: Casualties of Patriarchy
Discovering Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls is the first in a trilogy of novels, I...
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Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway: Being, Non-Being, and the Spiritual Continuum Holding Up the World
In her autobiographical memoir, “A Sketch of the Past,” Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) writes of...
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Mona Chollet: The fear of and perceived danger from independent women
The cover of Swiss Woman writer Mona Chollet’s book In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch...
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Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey: Lifting the Veil on Cruelty
Anne, the youngest of the Brontë sisters, penned two novels in her short life. The first was Agnes...
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Kamala Harris: Unapologetic Power
We ran this piece on Nasty Women Writers in 2021 after Harris assumed the role as Vice President...
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Woman Writer Virginia Woolf: A Bench of Her Own, With Room for You
Such an invitation! We were invited to the unveiling of the full-size bronze sculpture of Virginia...
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Shattering Ceilings: Glass and Bronze!
Over the past several years, I’ve written many posts about a phenomenon slowly and steadily...
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Books, Glorious Books
Books, in any and all formats, are human evolution’s most valuable resource. Books invite us into...
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