‘Vanity Fair’s Women on Women’ Is a Missed Opportunity
Women writing about famous women does not a feminist or otherwise interesting collection make.
Keira Williams
Keira Williams, Ph.D., teaches U.S. history at Queen's University Belfast. She has a Ph.D. in Southern history from the University of Georgia, and she is well-published on the topics of race and sex in the South.
Jami Attenberg Explores Patriarchal Fallout in ‘All This Could Be Yours’
Through a familial lens, Jami Attenberg offers a thoughtful and often darkly funny exploration of Trumpian patriarchy in All This Could Be Yours.
Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum: On the Literature of Witness in Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Testaments’
Margaret Atwood's The Testaments provides a hard-earned and much-needed "happy" ending to the dystopian parallel universe that is The Handmaid's Tale, albeit at great cost and courage to one vital witness.
Jess Row’s ‘White Flights’ Examines Avoidant Rituals of Race in American Literature
"White flights" for Jess Row denotes the "postures of avoidance and denial" about whiteness — as a privilege, a cultural norm, and a burden — adopted by white authors, academics, and critics.
‘Milkman’ Is a Rich Read about Violence and Silence
For a book so full of coded language, innuendoes, gossip, and rumors, Anna Burns' award-winning Milkman is perhaps really about silence.
‘Bring the War Home’ Digs into the Trenches of the White Power Movement in America
Historian Kathleen Belew painstakingly details the influence of the Vietnam wartime experience on the evolution of white power ideology.
From the Women of Dahomey to Black Panther’s Women of Wakanda
Black Panther is more than just another Marvel blockbuster; it's a revelation in Western depictions of Africa and African women.