With vivid descriptions that had me reading sentences out loud, Fonseca’s anthropologically-activist book situates itself in particularly violent, post-Soviet period to explore the culture and history of the Romani people […]
I loved the Part I of this book, in which Serano builds a passionate and cogent theory of transexuality, the feminine, sexism and cis-sexism via an academic review of the […]
As I read this re-telling of Sleeping Beauty, I couldn’t help but imagine McKinley watching the Disney version and thinking, “She can talk to animals and that’s all she does […]
If hospitals gathered and made public data on things like infection rates, accidents, and whether nurses think that there is a spirit of teamwork, most of us would refuse to […]
McKinley’s tendency to tell stories in a sing-song cadence without much dialogue, in this case, makes for a book that is best used as a nighttime option – to help […]
Meadows sets up a fascinating world where the same people have been re-born again and again for thousands of years, and then spends all of her time assembling another awful […]
The hell with “freedom fries” – if I ever get pregnant, I’m moving to France, where people are reasonable.
On page twenty, the author conjectures that Christina may have been born with ambiguous genitals and yet a transgender-centered analysis is not once applied to the Queen’s cross-dressing, traditionally male […]
As a Roman teen in the 1600s, the real Artemisia Gentileschi endured a public rape trial before earning international fame for her painting genius, but this novel whittles away real […]
Though at times Ollivier’s presentation of French women’s culture seems largely mythical, it also provides the expansion of thought – of possible alternate realities within our reach – that any […]