Feminist Literature

Award winning author Sarah Waters has done what she does best--she's taken a moment in time and developed deep, intense characters you can care about and cheer for.

Sep 27, 2009 - Victoria Oldham

Did Plath's career as an author contribute to her suicide? What was the effect of New Criticism and masculine culture on a female writer of the twentieth century?

Sep 5, 2009 - Tracey Carter

From the beginning literary criticism has been done by males, beginning with the likes of ancient philosophers Plato and Aristotle. How does this effect female writers?

Jun 26, 2009 - Tracey Carter

Why is there psychological disorder and distress among female writers? What effect does the New Criticism school of literary thought have on female authors?

Jun 26, 2009 - Tracey Carter

Jessica Valenti, author of Full Frontal Feminism, addresses the hypocrisy of the Purity Movement

May 5, 2009 - Dianha Simpson

Clifford Henderson's debut novel, The Middle of Somewhere (Bold Strokes Books, Inc 2009) is a gentle, funny love story, full of colorful characters breaking boundaries.

Mar 31, 2009 - Victoria Oldham

The York Lesbian Arts Festival, or YLAF, is now in its tenth year. Held at York Racecourse, it is a comfortable, intimate venue for women to talk books and art.

Nov 3, 2008 - Victoria Oldham

Every year Provincetown, MA hosts Women's Week. This week long festival includes artists, photographers, authors, comediennes and musicians, and thousands of women.

Nov 3, 2008 - Victoria Oldham

A touching anthology of short stories about lesbians and their relationships as mothers and daughters who deal with sexuality as well as the vagaries of regular life.

Mar 31, 2008 - Victoria Oldham

March is National Women's History Month otherwise known as a perfect time to read up on the mothers, wives, and daughters of antiquity.

Mar 18, 2008 - Adrienne Wilson