epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Shirley Hazzard

WILLIAM MAXWELL In his eighties, William Maxwell told me, “I love being old.” By then, Bill Maxwell had recurrent and sometimes serious bodily infirmities. His mind and spirit were perhaps ...

epub |eng | | Author:Katrine Marcal

CHAPTER TEN In which we see that you aren’t selfish just because you want more money Nancy Folbre, a feminist professor of economics, often tells this tale: Once there were ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Jessica Valenti

FRIENDS MAKE FUN OF PAUL AND ME FOR BEING BASICALLY married while in college but we are far from perfect. I am far from perfect. One day while we are ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-10 | Author:Rory C. Dicker

Feminism at the Newsstand When Ms. magazine began publishing in 1972, most monthly magazines aimed at women focused on beauty and fashion or homemaking and decorating. Most publications directed at ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sarai Walker

Preston I heard the street door downstairs open and braced myself for the knock at my apartment door, and then for the stare. Preston would be expecting a thin person—people ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Roxane Gay

A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories We are still in that time in our history when public figures come out of invisible closets largely built by a public insatiable ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:Sophia Amoruso [Amoruso, Sophia]

Treat Your Thoughts Like Your Dollar Bills: Don’t Waste ’Em Though I believe in magic, I’m not hippy-dippy and I generally abhor people who are. I remember I had a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Woolf, Virginia

Lighthouse But the voice had stopped. She looked round. She made herself get up. Augustus Carmichael had risen and, holding his table napkin so that it looked like a long ...

mobi |eng | 2007-04-01 | Author:Jessica Valenti

A whopping $72 billion per year is spent on weddings. Imagine if, for every panic attack over a date outfit or unreturned phone call, we instead stressed about our professional ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-03-01 | Author:Naomi Wolf

Hunger I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving…. —Allen Ginsberg, “Howl” There is a disease spreading. It taps on the shoulder America’s firstborn sons, its ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Caitlin Moran

Days later, I escape the house with the stupid new dog – now old – and walk to the Heath. I lie under a tree – dressed in my nightie, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Susan Bordo [Bordo, Susan]

Henry’s desire for Anne is thus premised on what Sartre would later describe as the desire to capture the elusive freedom of another person by “incarnating” it as flesh. But ...