Book Review: Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
The bestseller from Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, documents the process of reporting a huge story. And it shows how that story was like nailing Jell-O to the wall. Or herding cats. Everything conspired against Farrow...Book Review: Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Chanel Miller went to a fraternity house party one evening, and woke up in the hospital the following morning. What happened in between is just one reason why she’s written a memoir. During the party, Miller got quite drunk and passed out. Her sister and friend...Book Review: Flash Count Diary by Darcey Steinke
In Flash Count Diary, Darcey Steinke presents her perspective on various aspects of menopause. It’s one woman’s experience, and thus, a memoir. And yet, it’s so much more. There’s science, social commentary, and some thoughts on medical methods. But if you’re looking...Book Review: Down Girl by Kate Manne
Kate Manne is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. Why am I leading with that in this review? Because knowing that informs everything about her book Down Girl: The Logic Of Misogyny. She’s a brilliant academic thinker and researcher. First and...Book Review: Women’s Minyan by Naomi Ragen
Naomi Ragen is an acclaimed novelist, who wrote and produced this play set in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family and community. Women’s Minyan is about Chana, a married mother of twelve, who leaves her home and family. Two years after she leaves, the play opens as Chana...Book Review: Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
A biographer, a wise woman, a wife, a daughter, and an explorer form the core of Red Clocks, from author Leni Zumas. They seem to have only one thing in common—being women living in a country where reproductive rights are more and more limited.Susan is a wife and...Book Review: Fierce Fairytales by Nikita Gill
Nikita Gill puts an adult, mostly feminist spin on common fairytales and legends in her collection, titled Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul. For me, though, the content wasn’t as stirring as promised.Gill uses various points of view, including...Book Review: Vox by Christina Dalcher
Christina Dalcher writes about a woman not unlike herself in her debut novel, Vox. Her main character, Dr. Jean McClellan is a PhD nuerolinguist working on research about aphasia. Well, she formerly researched language changes after brain injury. But in Dalcher’s...Book Review: The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
Inspired by The Beauty Myth and by its author Naomi Wolf, I went to the gym this morning with a new set of eyes. And no makeup, my hair pulled back in a poof of raggedy curls on my head. Oh wait, that’s how I always go to the gym or the pool for my workouts. But the...Book Review: We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement by Andi Zeisler
fIn We Were Feminists Once, Andi Zeisler deconstructs recent incarnations of feminism, especially as it connects to pop culture and advertising. She mixes acerbic wit and interviews with both fellow journalists and researchers. But the crux of her work is her specific...Book Review: Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister
Let me tell you how I started reading Good and Mad from Rebecca Traister. I was watching Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. I was also on Twitter, because I wanted to experience this momentous hearing with other people, even...Book Review: Keep Marching: How Every Woman Can Take Action and Change Our World by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
If you’re looking for concrete ideas about everyday activism, read Keep Marching: How Every Woman Can Take Action and Change Our World by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner. The author breaks down today’s most critical human rights issues, and provides an action plan. Keep...Book Review: Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
I started Women & Power: A Manifesto from Mary Beard at breakfast. By dinner, I had finished this short and insightful read. Beard is a classics professor at University of Cambridge. She has a uniquely English perspective, but uses examples from throughout the...Book Review: Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer
Kayleen Schaefer explores twenty-first century female friendships with gusto in Text Me When You Get Home. Like a great coffee date with your bestie, it’s the perfect blend of research, analysis, and real-life stories. By the end I was eyeing up that woman in the next...Book Review: Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture—and What We Can Do about It by Kate Harding
Kate Harding wrote Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture–and What We Can Do about It before the #MeToo movement began. Since it was published many more high profile sexual harassment and assault accusations and consequences have occurred. I figured...Bookshop.Org Affiliate
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