Let us raise a toast to the works of 10 inspiring contemporary female authors and their exceptional prose this Women’s Equality Day. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand, author of “The Fountainhead” (1943) 10 Books by Inspiring Contemporary Female Authors: With the above quote…
Learn what the panopticon is and why it plays such an important role in oppressing the women of Gilead in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Originally published in 1985, The Handmaid’s Tale has been part of countless controversies ranging from book burnings to bans against the book in several countries, including Spain and Portugal, for…
Many of us make a New Year’s Resolution to start reading more but never actually get around to it because life gets in the way. Even if you’re ready to read, you might not know where to begin. With so many options available, deciding what to read next can be overwhelming. That’s why we’ve compiled…
10 New Books to Look Forward to in March 2023: The month of March always abounds in warm sunbeams, cool winds, and plenty of nature sounds. It is springtime almost everywhere across the globe. What better than to smell new books and pick up some fresh releases hot off the press on weekends than to…
How Feminist Retellings are Quickly Shaping our Understanding of Myths: When Adrienne Rich wrote in her popular essay, ‘When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision,’ that re-visioning would be an act of survival for women, she was possibly envisioning a future when a massive wave of revisionist storytelling was going to ebb into the world…