Literary Criticism - Subjects & Themes - Women
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Alterations"In the city where I was born there is a collective of women taking apart donated wedding dresses. Seam ripping and taking off lace, uprooting stitches and unstringing beads--one by one by hand in their spare time."A collective of women gathers to painstakingly turn...
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Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men: Reclaiming the Stories of Mythology's Most Iconic Women, Goddesses, and Female MonstersMeet the goddesses, warriors, witches, and monsters who shaped and subverted womanhood from the very beginning in this this bold, empowering illustrated collection perfect for fans of New York Times bestseller Circe. Was Circe really just a temptress? Were the Amazons nothing more than...
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Delusions: Of Grandeur, of Romance, of ProgressIn this sharp and darkly funny new essay collection from the New York Times bestselling author, Cazzie David explores the irony and existential crises of leaving youth behind.With her thirtieth birthday fast approaching, Cazzie reflects on the delusions that laid waste to her twenties...
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Greatest Works of Jane Austen (Set of 5 Books)Jane Austen, a renowned English novelist of the nineteenth century, crafted timeless tales that continue to captivate readers to this day. Her greatest works are a testament to her wit, social commentary, and keen understanding of human nature. In this set of five books,...
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MemoryA poet's spacious exploration of time, memory, and art, in homage to Bernadette Mayer. A spiritual homage to Bernadette Mayer's monumental artwork of the same title, Dorothea Lasky's Memory is a cycle of "poet's essays" stirred by two profound questions. What constitutes personhood and...
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Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in EssaysUSA Today Bestseller "Sensitive, searingly intelligent, and beautifully written." --Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma "This is--for real--a masterwork, one I will return to over and over." --Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year In this intimate and riveting memoir, Best American...
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One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting inINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeistOne in a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and...
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Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's World Through the Women Written Out of ItWeaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored...
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Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's World Through the Women Written Out of ItWeaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored...
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Shakespeare's Margaret: The Dramatic Life of a Warrior QueenShe is more violent than Lady Macbeth, more complex than Ophelia, more strategic than King Lear's daughters. She is the only Shakespearean character, male or female, whose entire life--from youth to old age--appears on stage. She is a wealth of insight into Shakespeare's understanding...
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Splinters: Another Kind of Love StoryFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes "a blazing, unputdownable memoir" (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the "piercing, intimate" story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage--an exploration of motherhood, art,...
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The Faraway NearbyA New York Times Notable Book Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell's Roses Apricots. Her mother's disintegrating memory. An invitation to Iceland. Illness. These are Rebecca Solnit's raw materials,...
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The Jane Austen Insult Guide for Well-Bred Women: Serving Tea with a Side of ScornJane Austen always knows just what to say!Why waste time inventing your own insults when you can borrow topnotch snipes from a literary genius? With The Jane Austen Insult Guide for Well-Bred Women, you can clap back at bad dates, micromanaging bosses, irritating strangers,...
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The Jane Austen Romance Guide for Well-Bred Women: Spotting Red Flags from Across the BallroomNo one knows red flags like Jane Austen! Why settle for mediocre dating advice when you can consult the queen of the meet-cute? With The Jane Austen Romance Guide for Well-Bred Women, you can effortlessly dispense with rakes, avoid boring suitors, evade meddling relations,...
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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female DetectiveA revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account--and how they became a cultural sensationShortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize 2025 From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people...
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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female DetectiveA revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account--and how they became a cultural sensationShortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize 2025 From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people...
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The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls WilderAvailable for the first time and collected in one volume, the letters of one of America's most beloved authors, Laura Ingalls Wilder--a treasure trove that offers new and unexpected understanding of her life and work.The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder is a vibrant,...
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The WildernessA deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood.In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Ayşegül Savaş becomes fascinated by the mythology around the first forty days after giving birth, and the invisible beings that are said to...
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Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: Rediscovering Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House BooksLaura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were "too good to be altogether lost." And those stories seemed far from being lost during the remainder of her lifetime and through most of the twentieth...
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When You Listen to This Song: On Memory, Loss, and WritingA quietly powerful exploration of memory and forgetting, from one of France's leading feminist public intellectuals In 2021, the award-winning French writer Lola Lafon was granted permission to stay overnight--alone for ten hours--in the Annex in Amsterdam where Anne Frank and her family had...
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