Books Abroad - Feminist Literature

June 02, 2023

Books we read

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit Not That Bad edited by Roxane Gay The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Woman Upstairs by Claire......
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June 02, 2023

Women Writers

Mary Beard Bio  Annie Ernaux Bio  bel hooks Bio  Edith Wharton Bio   ...
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June 02, 2023

Our Favorite Quotes

REBECCA SOLNIT  MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME “One evening over dinner, I began to joke, as I often had before, about writing an essay called “Men Explain Things to Me.”......
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February 14, 2023

Our team covers subjects relevant to women's lives and encourages timely conversations related to our existence as compassionate, informed citizens. Welcome to our Books Abroad blog space. Check here for information,......
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February 13, 2023
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The serious side of ‘mansplaining’ has been lost. That’s where the harm begins.Rebecca Solnit The key context of the word inspired by my 2008 essay is that mansplaining is one......
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December 15, 2021

Women and Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

Books Abroad, The Global Women’s Caucus Feminist reading group, is excited to kick off the new year with an unforgettable read about the roots of misogyny, written by world renowned......
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September 30, 2021

On Coming Together, Transformation, and Literature: Announcing the GWC Feminist Literature Festival

As any book lover will testify, literature has a way of bringing people together. Coming together feels apt right now, at the end of our second year battling a pandemic,......
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August 27, 2021

October Literary Festival!

What better way to celebrate the written word than joining the Feminist Literature Book Club of the Global Women's Caucus for a month-long literary festival! Literature has always been the......
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February 16, 2021

An Untold History of Wayward Black Women

Mattie Nelson. Esther Brown. May Enoch.  You won’t find these names on any list of notable African Americans. Yet, they are some of the women whose lives scholar Saidiya Hartman......
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February 03, 2021

BOOKS AND COCKTAILS

In response to the amazing energy of our Breakout session at the GWC inauguration event, the women of Books Abroad are pleased to invite you to BOOKS AND COCKTAILS! Join us......
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