Linda Williams, a trailblazing scholar whose research was foundational to the field of film studies and to feminist film theory, and who wrote extensively about pornography,...
It takes a lot for me to lose patience. My first biography, “The Peabody Sisters,” about three unsung heroines of New England’s Transcendentalist movement, took two...
A wife, wearing a nightgown and her hair uncovered, lies down next to her husband in bed. An older man and woman, drunk on red wine,...
RIGHT-WING WOMEN, by Andrea Dworkin A tech mogul extols the virtues of “masculine energy”; a United States senator writes a book called “Manhood”; a president found...
Paquita la del Barrio, the prolific Mexican vocalist and songwriter known for her powerful feminist ballads, died on Monday at her home in Veracruz. She was...
Maria Teresa Horta, a Portuguese feminist writer who helped shatter her conservative country’s strictures on women, died on Feb. 4 at her home in Lisbon. She...
Judith Bernstein and her work share a striking trait: a potent brew of provocative humor edged with anger. An indelible cackle with a crackle, as powerfully...
Both she and Lydia Emerson, who married Ralph Waldo, sustained their marriages by compromising their own intellectual talents. Lydia — a staunch abolitionist, committed to the...
The end of a presidency tends to bring a rush of last-minute monument making, and Joe Biden’s was no different. In his final week in office,...
