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Home to Harlem"> Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s <em

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Home to Harlem">Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem

Belinda Edmondson on the Peripatetic Perspective of a Landmark Novel

By Belinda Edmondson | February 5, 2025

Books Have No Gender: On Being a Small Town Librarian While Raising a Trans Child

Books Have No Gender: On Being a Small Town Librarian While Raising a Trans Child

Abi Maxwell: “This town felt so conservative, its social norms so crushing. I needed someone who would help me swim against them.”

By Abi Maxwell | September 17, 2024

Why an Early Feminist Advocated for the Right to Divorce

Why an Early Feminist Advocated for the Right to Divorce

Puerto Rican Activist Luisa Capetillo on the Trap of Being a Mother “Who Knows How to Do It All”

By Luisa Capetillo | September 14, 2021

What We Know About Women in the Viking Age Is Steeped in Cultural Bias

What We Know About Women in the Viking Age Is Steeped in Cultural Bias

Nancy Marie Brown on How Gender Impacts the Interpretation of History

By Nancy Marie Brown | September 2, 2021

The Glamour and the Terror: Why Women in the Victorian Era Jumped at the Chance to Go to Sea

The Glamour and the Terror: Why Women in the Victorian Era Jumped at the Chance to Go to Sea

Siân Evans on the Daring Women Whose Transatlantic Journeys Challenged Gender Roles

By Siân Evans | August 12, 2021

How Linda Wertheimer and Susan Stamberg Found Their Voices at NPR

How Linda Wertheimer and Susan Stamberg Found Their Voices at NPR

Broadcast Journalism ">Lisa Napoli on Four Radical Women Who Changed
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By Lisa Napoli | April 15, 2021

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Melissa Febos on How Patriarchy and Capitalism Conspire Against Women

By Elizabeth Lothian | April 2, 2021

Daisies, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, and Twinning">Femme Freedom on Film: On Daisies, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, and Twinning

By Sam Cohen | March 11, 2021

The Long Silencing of Women in Science Continues Today

By Olivia Campbell | March 5, 2021

The American Archetype of Rural Queerness Redefined

The American Archetype of Rural Queerness Redefined

My Ántonia ">Zee Francis Goes Deep Into the Subtext of Willa Cather's My Ántonia

By Zee Francis | February 28, 2020

Little Women and Wanting to Be Like Jo March"> Jenny Zhang on Reading <em

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Little Women and Wanting to Be Like Jo March">Jenny Zhang on Reading Little Women and Wanting to Be Like Jo March

Looking to Louisa May Alcott's Heroine for Inspiration

By Jenny Zhang | August 23, 2019

On the Great Infertility Scare of the 1980s

On the Great Infertility Scare of the 1980s

Turns Out It Was Actually a Fear of Empowered Women

By Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner | August 8, 2019

On the Brides of Jamestown: Old World Puritanism Weaponized for the New World

On the Brides of Jamestown: Old World Puritanism Weaponized for the New World

The Relentless Campaign Against Unmarried Women

By Jennifer Potter | July 12, 2019

What Anne Sexton Taught Me About... Self-Promotion

What Anne Sexton Taught Me About... Self-Promotion

Joy Lanzendorfer on Balancing Social Anxiety and the Need for Writerly Networking

By Joy Lanzendorfer | June 18, 2019

On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

Caroline Fraser: “Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, shrouded, disguised, crushed, thwarted, mocked, warped, punished, or excoriated.”

By Caroline Fraser | May 16, 2019

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Devoney Looser Considers the Mind vs. the Heart

By Devoney Looser | February 11, 2019

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