This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! The first time I ever lived alone, it was 2016 and I was halfway through my doctorate. It was a stressful time in […]
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“Reclaiming the Canon” is a series of posts that aims to bring attention to historical women who are often excluded from the narrative of their field — whether in literature, music, science, or other areas. Each post features a woman whose name we feel everyone should know. Readers are strongly encouraged to explore further resources, spend
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Love them or hate them, the Academy Awards are something of a religion in my family. When I was a kid, while Sundays were technically one of my dad’s days, my sister and I were legally required to be at our mom’s place for Oscar night because it was listed as a holiday in my
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I recently wrote about the 18th-century French painter Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun for Feminist Book Club’s “Reclaiming the Canon” series, so I was excited to see a new historical novel out about one of Vigée Le Brun’s contemporaries, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Susanne Dunlap’s The Portraitist is a novelized account of Labille-Guiard’s career as one of the
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Don’t let the title fool you; Dava Shastri’s Last Day is about so much more than Dava Shastri’s last day. Kirthana Ramisetti’s exciting and heartwarming debut novel is about the life of a self-made billionaire who has uncompromising ambition, serious concern about legacy, and deep — if sometimes misconstrued — love for her family. The
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“Reclaiming the Canon” is a series of posts that aims to bring attention to historical women who are often excluded from the narrative of their field — whether in literature, music, science, or other areas. Each post features a woman whose name we feel everyone should know. Readers are strongly encouraged to explore further resources,
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I had never heard of Elinor Glyn when I first saw Hilary A. Hallett’s biography of her. I’m a sucker for early Hollywood history, and when I saw that beautiful orange cat draped around that extravagant red-headed woman on the book’s cover, I knew I needed to learn about her. Inventing the It Girl: How
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“Hello, gorgeous,” she says to her own damn self in the mirror. This iconic line spoken by a woman and written by a woman opens Funny Girl in both the Broadway musical and the 1968 film starring Barbra Streisand. I grew up watching the movie Funny Girl on a regular basis, and seeing the theater
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Is “activism” a scary word for you? Are you terrified to phonebank, nervous to start volunteering for a nonprofit, or unsure how to actually fight for social justice? If so, I have some great news for you (thanks to some, ahem, potentially embarrassing lived experiences): You do not have to know what you are doing!
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Love the image above? We’ve brought back our Read. Resist. Vote. shirts. Get yours now! The time has come. It’s the final week in our ongoing Read. Resist. Vote. series. And then? Well, I hope you all rush your local voting booths or send in those mail-in ballots, voting like hell to boost the candidates who
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Hi, friends! I’m Lillie Gardner, a writer and Feminist Book Club contributor. I’m also the creator of Allegra Sparkle’s Guide to the Great Composers (You Might Not Have Heard Of), an animated kids’ series that is super important to me as a classical pianist and music educator. Here’s why: Why Classical Music? For most of
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Reclaiming the Canon is a series of posts that aims to bring attention to historical women who are often excluded from the narrative of their field — whether literature, music, science, or another area. Each post features a woman whose name we feel everybody should know. Readers are strongly encouraged to explore further resources, spend
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