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Book Reviews

Fiction

Mother of Pearl ~ ~ Melinda Haynes

Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents~~ Octavia Butler (or any Butler novels)

The Story of Jane ~~ by Catherine Cusset

Girl in Hyacinth Blue ~~ by Susan Vreeland

Swift As Desire ~~ by Laura Esquivel

The Left Hand of Darkness~~ Ursula K. LeGuin

Non Fiction

Letters of Intent : Women Cross the Generations to Talk About Family, Work, Sex, Love and the Future of Feminism ~~ by Anna Bondoc (Editor), Meg Daly (Editor)

Other Powers ~~ by Barbara Goldsmith

The Price of Motherhood : Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued ~~ by Ann Crittenden

Haunted Bodies : Gender and Southern Texts (The American South Series) ; Anne Goodwyn Jones(Editor), et al

The Spivak Reader : Selected Works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak


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Author Interviews and/or Author biography-- one of those essays about an author's life that illuminates her work...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (author of Mistress of Spices)

Alice Munro

Alice Hoffman

Diane DiPrima

Sheri Reynolds

Rita Dove

Sandra Cisneros

Any authors work at your university? Interview them!

 

Women's Lit topics

What's so special about books by women?

Books about women by male authors: do they "get it right?" Be sure to tell us why.

Women literary characters and their re-sketching in film adaptations.

Hollywood's Adaptations of your favorite novel by a woman and/or a dramatic "chick flick." If we assume that "film" is the "drama" of the 90's (do we assume that?) then what movies can we look at the way we look at drama?

A "mock" interview with one of the women characters in a book you've read. I.E., "So, Wife Of Bath, can I call you "Wife?" ..... to which you might find an answer in the text, and quote, or make up your own based on an understanding of the character.

Author website review:

Any of the author sites that are on the links are open for review, but sites that I would particularily like to see reveiwed are:
HD: Hilda Doolittle
Marianne Moore
Marion Zimmer Bradley

??? others you know of???

Give opinons on site design, overall feel, as well as content. You don't have to be an HTML writer, just be critical....

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Site launch, July 20, 1999--last update to this wishlist-- May 2003