Valentine’s Day Antidote: Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Fight reductive HEA (Happily Ever After) with Charlotte Brontë's last, best, novel.
Ayn Rand: Behind the Controversy
Is the controversial work of Ayn Rand worth revisiting? You decide.
Literary Pilgrimage: Virginia Woolf’s England
Take a tour of England through the life and work of Virginia Woolf.
In Defense: Elizabeth Gilbert
Gilbert haters cite Eat, Pray, Love as proof of her failings, and in the process neglect her fantastic, near-perfect novel.
Live Your Own Life: 10 Inspiring Facts About Margaret Mitchell
The Gone with the Wind author was a woman ahead of her time.
Gloria Steinem on Domestic Violence and Next Time, She’ll Be Dead
Ann Jones's revolutionary work offers powerful insight into domestic violence.
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: Feminist Icon
In "Miss Marple vs. The Mansplainers," Alice Bolin salutes Agatha Christie's feminist detective hero.
The Genius of Kate Atkinson
With Life After Life, the English writer takes the reincarnation story to new heights.
Literature’s Sexual Rebels
Erica Jong shocked readers with her novel about women's sexuality in the 1970s, and she tells us why she's ready to do it again.
This Is Susan Griffin, Hear Her Roar
The pioneering ecofeminist and Woman and Nature author discusses her book and today's discriminatory climate.
7 Fascinating Facts You Didn’t Know About Cats
Read what anthropologist and author Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has to say right meow!
Gloria Steinem on Exterminate All The Brutes
Author Sven Lindqvist takes readers on historical journey across the Sahara Desert and the African continent.
The Mermaid and the Minotaur: “The Uncle Tom’s Cabin of Men Raising Children”
Gloria Steinem reflects on Dorothy Dinnerstein's feminist classic and gender equality in early societies.
Still on the Edge: Gloria Steinem Explores the Marge Piercy Classic
Gloria Steinem discusses the continued importance of Marge Piercy's sci-fi classic, Woman on the Edge of Time.
The Sacred Hoop: “Patriarchy is Neither Universal Nor Inevitable”
Paula Gunn Allen, a Native American activist, offers hope for the future in The Sacred Hoop, says Gloria Steinem.
Gloria Steinem on Patriarchy and Power in The Handmaid’s Tale
How Margaret Atwood's classic shows the significance of reproductive freedom.
Gloria Steinem on the Many Reasons to Read The Group
How Mary McCarthy's classic can be read as an indicator of change—or the lack of it.
Gloria Steinem Discusses Sex & World Peace
Valerie Hudson's critical book shows how violence against women is a proxy for nationwide violence.
