Biting the Moon: A Memoir of Feminism and Motherhood

At the age of twenty-three, second-year doctoral student Joanne S. Frye married an emotionally difficult German professor who was a decade her senior. There were frustrations in their marriage early on, but it wasn’t until the arrival of their first child that their relationship was thrown into complete disarray. Since her husband was the one

Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging

Arab and Arab American Feminisms, edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber, is a book I wish every feminist/womanist would pick up. Though it is mostly academic in nature, the book is also interspersed with personal anecdotes and poetry that revolve around the book’s focus on Arab and Arab American feminists’ experiences. The

The Education of Women & The Vices of Men

In 1889, a short book by an anonymous author made waves in Iran. Published at a time when European values were beginning to challenge traditional Iranian values, The Education of Women served to educate women about what their roles at home and in society should be. A book called The Vices of Men was written in