50 Women Sculptors: A Monumental Resource
While preparing to interview Cheryl Robson, who initiated the establishment of the Virginia Woolf...
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Tag: women and power
These are women. Hear them roar.
A Window on Women History, that is, a written record, begins in China about 1000 BCE. There are...
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Toni Morrison’s Sula: Available to and for her own imagination
Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973) has long been one of my favorite books. Besides simply wanting to...
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MaVynee Betsch: Preserving History and the Environment
“It’s history and nature all wrapped together, baby.” -MaVynee Betsch Recently I visited the Best...
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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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Sandra Cisneros: “Women Without Shame”
Almost 30 years in the making, this collection of Sandra Cisneros’ poems is a gift to be...
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Rachel Blaustein (1890-1919): “The Mother of Modern Hebrew Poetry”
We need not dwell in great detail on Rachel’s life, because unlike her, it was utterly typical of...
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Woman Writer, Educator and Activist Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955): Standing Tall in the Hall!
The crack in the bronze ceiling continued to widen when the 11-foot marble sculpture of Mary...
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Alison Bechdel: The Secret to Superhuman Strength
I’ve never been drawn, no pun intended, to graphic novels. I’m not sure why since as a child I...
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