Virginia Méndez, a Spanish author, speaker and founder of the Feminist Shop, lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland with husband Chris, son Eric and daughter Nora. She is the writer of a feminist book series for children called Mika & Lolo, but what fascinated me was her feminist and gender-creative parenting guide, Childhood Unlimited.
Read MoreJane Austen's incomparable Regency novels are ideal screen adaptation material, not only to enhance the reading experience of "Janeites," as her devotees are called, but as a tool to introduce this gifted author to anyone who might need some visual prompting before "plunging" into the original books.
Read MoreDr. Martha is the second book about pioneering female physicians by Willa Cather award winner Mari Graña, whose earlier work, Pioneer Doctor (2005), was a biography of the author's own grandmother, Mary Babcock Atwater. Martha Hughes Cannon, or Mattie, is a remarkable Welsh-American medical doctor, women's rights activist and suffragist.
Read MoreI greedily lapped up this book when it was published, and keep coming back to it. Ehrenreich continues to be a force in US socialist feminism, and whether or not you fully agree with what she advocates, she writes straight, no-nonsense common sense.
Read MoreDeirdre Purcell is an Irish author, journalist and former theatre actor. Her novel Falling for a Dancer is a highly readable story about the middle-class daughter of a Cork solicitor during the Second World War.
Read MoreHer pre-war feminist masterpiece South Riding has never been out of print, but Winifred Holtby can nevertheless be considered a criminally undervalued author. Marion Shaw, a professor of English, has done an excellent job of raising awareness for this exemplary woman in her revealing biography The Clear Stream.
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