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“More a Diva Like Her Than Anybody Else”: Billie Holiday and Nina Simone

By Salamishah Tillet for WOMEN  = BOOKS

Posted on November 29, 2010

Running Joke

Column: Fiction from the Front Lines

By Rebecca Meacham for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on November 15, 2010

I Say No

Column: Nothing but the Toth

By Emily Toth for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on November 1, 2010

Abortion in the Time of Obama

By Carole Joffe for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on October 18, 2010

Fat, Female, Furious: Weapons of Mass Destruction

By Esther Rothblum for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on October 11, 2010

A Little Poetry Death

By Maxine Kumin for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on October 4, 2010

French Fat Women? Fighting the Stigma from Paris to Dubuque

By Abigail Saguy for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on September 20, 2010

They're Hiding the Sex Scenes

Column: Nothing But the Toth

By Emily Toth for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on September 13, 2010

Pakistan Is Different—or Is It?

By Gayatri Devi for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on September 6, 2010

Contemporary Arabic Fiction: The Gender Politics of Popularity

By Marilyn Booth for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on August 30, 2010

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Flaws of American Feminism

By Lori D. Ginzberg for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on August 16, 2010

Academic Feminism, the “Equality” Principle, and Peggy Pascoe

By Sandra F. VanBurkleo for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on August 2, 2010

BP in the Gulf: Drilling on the Edge

By Kerryn Higgs for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on July 26, 2010

The Curse of `Flow`: I Already Wrote This Book

Column: Nothing But the Toth

By Emily Toth for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on July 19, 2010

Women's Poetry: Opportunities in Restriction

Column: Music of Fragments

By Carol Dorf for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on July 12, 2010

What You're Not Reading Now

Column: Fiction From the Front Lines

By Rebecca Meacham for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on July 5, 2010

Identity and the Politics of Book Reviewing

By Eileen Boris for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on June 28, 2010

Splitting the Health-Reform Baby: What Women Lost by Winning

By Gloria Feldt for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on June 21, 2010

Beyond God the Style Guide: Me? Edit Mary Daly?

Column: One Wired Sister

By Susanna J. Sturgis for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on June 14, 2010

Deconstructing Marilyn Monroe: Not Easy

 By Lois Banner for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on June 7, 2010

Mystifying Sexual Abuse: Catholic Priests Are Not Alone

By Mary Hamer for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on May 31, 2010

Barbara Kingsolver and the Political Novel

By Margaret Randall for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on May 24, 2010

People Will Tell You Everything

By Emily Toth for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on May 17, 2010

Individualism and Choice: On Looking in the Mirror

By Lori D. Ginzberg for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on May 10, 2010

In Chiapas: Ámbar Past, Poet and Editor

By Martha Gies and Poppy Dully for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on April 26, 2010

When Gay Marriage Goes on Trial

By Emily Douglas for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on April 19, 2010

How to Support African-American Writers

By Heather Hewett for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on April 12, 2010

The Trouble with Online Organizing: Feminism Is Not a Spectator Sport

Column: One Wired Sister

By Susanna J. Sturgis for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on April 5, 2010

My Memories of Audre Lorde: “Pretend We’re on Our Second Date”

By Jewelle Gomez for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on March 29, 2010

Learning from the Literature of Haiti: What Journalists Don't Know

By Patti M. Marxsen for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on March 22, 2010

My Mother the Irish Maid: “Your Life Will Never Be as Hard as Mine Was”

By Lauren Byrne for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on March 15, 2010

Feasting and Reading

 Column: Nothing but the Toth

By Emily Toth for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on March 8, 2010

Intermediate Forums and Women's Writing

 Column: Music of Fragments

By Carol Dorf for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on March 1, 2010

“A Star Danced, & Under that Was I Born”: Ellen Terry’s Brilliant Career

By Penny Farfan for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on February 15, 2010

Keeping Abreast of Women

By Emily Toth for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on February 8, 2010

Joanna Russ and the Feminist Press: Are There Still Too Many Trembling Sisters?

A Challenge to Take Our Work Seriously

By Susanna J. Sturgis for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on February1, 2010

Elizabeth Blackburn: "Long Overdue for a Nobel"

By Kathleen Ochs for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on January 25, 2010

Free to Be... Cinderella and Me

 Column: Fiction from the Front Lines

By Rebecca Meacham for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on January 18, 2010

“Not that You Look Old”: On Later Motherhood

By Elizabeth Gregory for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on January 11, 2010

Generations of Religious Feminists

By Ann Braude for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on December 28, 2009

Sex and Young Girls: Grand Piano or Road to Empowerment?

By Shannon Boodram for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on December 29, 2009

Ode to Frances Perkins: Why We Still Need Feminist Biographies

By Susan Feiner for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on December 14, 2009

Still Crazy After All These Years

By Amy Hoffman for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on December 7, 2009

Burma and Western Ignorance

By Marianne Villanueva for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on November 30, 2009

Writing About the Cuban Revolution: Praise and Silence

By Margaret Randall for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on November 23, 2009

“Tuskegee”: Why Is a Women’s Studies Professor Writing About This?

By Susan M. Reverby for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on November 16, 2009

Mother-Daughter Book Groups: Teaching Each Other

By Carol Dorf for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on November 9, 2009

Why Are Your Characters So NICE?

By Leah Hager Cohen for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on November 2, 2009

Are You There, Judy Bloom?

 By Rebecca Steinitz for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on October 26, 2009

Is My Son Lucky?

The Adoption Controversy, Part 2

By Martha Nichols for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on October 19, 2009

Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Lynching and the Woman Who Revolutionized Journalism

By Sherrilyn A. Ifill for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on October 12, 2009

Déjà Vu: A Surprising Link from Author to Reviewer

By Xujun Eberlein for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on October 5, 2009

Middle-Age Spread

By Rebecca Meacham for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on September 28, 2009

Why Adoption Makes Feminists Uncomfortable

The Adoption Controversy, Part 1

 By Ellen Herman for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on September 21, 2009

Blogging for Bottle Caps

By Frances Kissling for WOMEN = BOOKS

Posted on September 14, 2009

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Posted on August 11, 2009

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