Susan Carroll and the Allure of the Regency Romp
by I’m doing it again. The days are shorter, the nights are longer, and there is more time to snuggle on the couch reading. I could …
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Monsters: A Love Story by Liz Kay
I study monstrous women (exhibit A: my dissertation on Monstrous Women in Middle English Romance), so a book called Monsters: A Love Story shoots to …
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Learning about Contemporary Feminism(s) by Teaching Medieval Women Writers – pt I
Editor’s Note: This post, our newest The Feminists are Teaching feature, is the first in a series of three to showcase work done by junior …
You are what you read — and vice versa
Two recent articles from two writers, critics, and feminists I greatly admire – Jessica Valenti in the The Guardian and Roxane Gay writing at NPR’s …
Lady Almina, Highclere Castle, and Puff Pastry
In the 1980s, when feminism trickled into higher education in the U.S., literary critics, historians, and others turned to excavating the untold stories of women …