The Feminist Review

Sue Monk Kidd’s The Dance of the Dissident Daughter has been a feminist repose in my summer. Thanks to Elizabeth, I’ve been reading it, one chapter a week, and discussing it with brilliant, creative women.
I read Kidd’s later novel The Secret Life of Bees years ago, and loved it. Reading Dance shines so much light [...]

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I didn’t expect to find something useful in Newsweek (well, my mom found it, actually). But Jennie Yabroff’s recent article “He Ate, She Ate” struck a cord.
Yabroff considers the recent fad of food memoirs, noticing that women tend to write about emotional lessons and struggles, while men write simply about food, or about food and [...]

Filed under: articles on June 21st, 2010 by Anna Lisa | 1 Comment »