Jane Austen. The Handmaid's Tale. Virginia Woolf. You know the books and writers every feminist should read, and you know they're fantastic. But aren't they all a little — gulp — old? I mean, sure, Margaret Atwood and Gloria Steinem still write, and…
Jane Austen. The Handmaid's Tale. Virginia Woolf. You know the books and writers every feminist should read, and you know they're fantastic. But aren't they all a little — gulp — old? I mean, sure, Margaret Atwood and Gloria Steinem still write, and…
For this week's market spotlight, we look at BUST, a quarterly feminist lifestyle magazine that publishes nonfiction and fiction by women.
It's spectacularly tricky to attach the label of "feminist" to women who were writing, working, and living far before the term became widely used. And I'm talking centuries before. We're all pretty familiar these days with the shortest working…
Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. Her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is considered a trailblazing work of feminism. Her daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, was a noted writer best known for the novel Frankenstein.
The outspoken feminist author added that women should have children before they embark on a career and not be so picky about finding the perfect man.
From suffragettes to rebellious aristocrats: some of Britain's most infamous women.
Kathleen Mary Linn Stock OBE, a British philosopher, and writer, held the position of philosophy professor at the University of Sussex until 2021.
A dazzling, provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce female characters centre stage in brilliantly funny and sharp twists on fairy tale. 'Dark, subversive... Here are fairy tales and myths reworked with a feminist bent' Tatler Inspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, Apple and Knife is an unsettling ride that swerves into the supernatural to explore the dangers and power of occupying a female body in today's world. These stories set in the Indonesian everyday - in corporate boardrooms, in shanty towns, on dangdut stages - reveal a soupy otherworld stewing just beneath the surface. This is subversive feminist horror at its best, where men and women alike are arbiters of fear, and where revenge is sometimes sweetest when delivered from the grave. Dark, humorous, and vividly realised, Apple and Knife brings together taboos, inversions, sex and death in a heady, intoxicating mix.
Susan Glaspell: a biographical sketch and a library of the author's collected books, novels, short stories, poems, and essays
Jane Austen. The Handmaid's Tale. Virginia Woolf. You know the books and writers every feminist should read, and you know they're fantastic. But aren't they all a little — gulp — old? I mean, sure, Margaret Atwood and Gloria Steinem still write, and…
Let me cut right to the chase: Today’s feminist writers are killing it. Not only can feminists celebrate living in a moment when the advocacy for women's equality is at the top of mind for so many, and intersectional feminism is raising the voices…
Jane Austen. The Handmaid's Tale. Virginia Woolf. You know the books and writers every feminist should read, and you know they're fantastic. But aren't they all a little — gulp — old? I mean, sure, Margaret Atwood and Gloria Steinem still write, and…
As a woman who has been reading daily since she laid her hands on the her first copy of The Boxcar Children , and who has since made a career out of publishing and writing, I can say that women writers and their books have changed my life. Whether I…
I saw a blurb that likened Pizza Girl to Convenience Store Woman, but that wasn't the vibe I got from it. The tone reminded me more of Jamie Marina Lau...
The acclaimed author’s essay collection shows “what it’s like to move through the world as a woman”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 – 1935) was ahead of her time for her feminist works. Here is a selection of her quotes on gender roles and human nature.
Even though Attachments is officially an "adult" novel, I have no doubt it would appeal to YA fans, too - especially the ones that are into this '90s nostalgia kick all the Gen Z kids seem to be on right now.
Refinery29 rounds up the best of feminist fiction novels to read this summer.
In her much-anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, the renowned author takes her anti-woman dystopia to the age of Trump
Her Fidelity is a sharp but charming book that I devoured in a single sitting. It was unexpectedly delightful to read a book about someone my age, from my actual home state, in a similar line of work - is there a word that goes beyond relatable?
On Yuri Kochiyama’s 100th birthday, her granddaughter Akemi Kochiyama reflects on her radical anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and internationalist politic and praxis
Female authors are marginalised by newspapers and literary journals, and their books are given 'girly' covers. Take action against this inequality by making sure the next book you read is by a woman, says Joanna Walsh
What can we say? We messed up. Our list of "80 Books Every Man Should Read," published several years ago, was rightfully called out for its lack of diversity in both authors and titles. So we invited eight female literary powerhouses, from Michiko Kakutani to Anna Holmes to Roxane Gay, to help us create a new list. Each participant made 10 picks. It's a new year, a new Esquire.com. We're looking forward to reading and we hope you are, too.
There’s never a bad time to read about historically badass ladies, but since March is Women’s History Month, now is a particularly perfect moment to bust out your library card and take in some stories of women who’ve changed art, culture, and…
The author of The God Of Small Things talks about political activism – and why she fled India to finish her new book
Feminist quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), author and social theorist, best known for Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper.
Don't you love a good literary buzz-word? The one that most recently caught my attention is auto-fiction...
A New Republic book critic revisited 4 Woolf novels in 1948.
Novelist Anne Rice says she's quit being a Christian. Not quit believing in Christ but, according to her Facebook page, she's had it with Christians.
Yee won the Victorian prize for literature and the poetry category for her collection Chinese Fish, while Melissa Lukashenko won the fiction prize
