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Female difficulties : sorority sisters, rodeo queens, frigid women, smut stars, and other modern girls by Carroll, E. Jean

January 24, 2024

Examines sorority rushing, the Miss Rodeo America contest, pornographic movie stars, sexual frigidity, and the experiences of women in a variety of walks of life

Podcasts

The Great Women Artists Podcast – Elif Shafak on storytelling in art

December 16, 2023

In this episode, we talk about the power of storytelling, the importance of writing women's lives into history and fighting for their rights. Shafak has said: "…as a young Turkish…

Podcasts

The Great Women Artists Podcast: Marina Warner on Eve, Lilith, Athena, Medusa

December 15, 2023

A writer, lecturer, author of almost 40 books, and former president of the Royal Society of Literature, Marina Warner, according to the New Yorker, is an authority on things that…

Articles

A Decade of Women Who Submit

April 28, 2021

Accolades was released on March 4, 2020, a week before the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 crisis a pandemic. Three days later, the Saturday before schools and businesses were…

Articles

Maybe Depression Is the Natural Reaction to a World Full of Pain

April 19, 2021

That’s the journey of life really, figuring out the balance between what’s cynicism and what’s hope, and what’s protecting yourself and what’s closing yourself off. That’s why we’re all in…

Articles

Leonora Carrington Rewrote the Surrealist Narrative for Women

June 10, 2019

In one of Carrington’s earliest stories, “The Debutante,” a young woman who does not want to go to a ball switches places with a hyena. The débutante allows her maid…

Fiction

Flowertongue

January 3, 2019

Ames knew men who, rather than break their own trail in a hunt, followed another hunter and took that man’s discoveries as his own.

Fiction

The Future of Work: Compulsory, by Martha Wells

December 18, 2018

My risk-assessment module predicts a 53 percent chance of a human-on-human massacre before the end of the contract.

Fiction

All The Things You’ll Never Do

October 24, 2018

In this story, “All The Things You’ll Never Do,” Bess is an airport TSA officer straining against her starched uniform to be given respect for once in her life, like…

Fiction

Being the Murdered Babysitter

September 28, 2018

The thing about being the murdered babysitter is you set the plot in motion.

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