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Showing posts with label women's literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women's literature. Show all posts
Friday, July 3, 2015

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Imagining a World of Our Own

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (born 3 July 1860) Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a noted social activist and reformer, a writer and a lecturer, a...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Judith Sargent Murray and the Equality of the Sexes

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Judith Sargent Murray (born 5 May 1751) Born into a prominent and wealthy Massachusetts family of businessmen, Judith Sargent very early...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate

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Toni Morrison (born 18 February 1931) Today is Toni Morrison's birthday. Her many honors include a Presidential Medal of Freedom (2...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Today is V-Day

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Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues , and V-Day The overwhelming response to productions of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues ...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Germaine Greer, Feminist Icon

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Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) Today is the birthday of irrepressible feminist powerhouse Germaine Greer. Greer's The ...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Zora Neale Hurston: Her Eyes Were Watching God

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Zora Neale Hurston (died 28 January 1960) By the time of her death, much of Zora Neale Hurston's work had been forgotten, including...
Friday, January 2, 2015

Ms.--A Magazine of Our Own

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Ms. Magazine (2 January 1972) In January of 1972, Ms. published its first stand-alone issue--various sites online note the date of public...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

Maria Edgeworth and Mothers of the Novel

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Maria Edgeworth (born 1 January 1767) In 1970, when I was an undergraduate, I took a course in the history of the novel; although I no ...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Mary Beard Takes on Internet Trolls

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"The Troll Slayer" The 1 September 2014 New Yorker  has a wonderful profile of classicist Mary Beard. The piece, written by ...