Recent Posts Tagged With 'books'

• A different take on Christmas

  Posted on Thursday December 24th, 2009 at 18:45 in books, animals

  A little post for tonight: a new look at the Christmas story from the incredible Jeanette Winterson (h/t AfterEllen)!Happy Holidays, from FWF...I'll be back bloggin' fresh on Monday....

• Bella vs. Buffy

  Posted on Sunday December 6th, 2009 at 13:14 in books, Film, television

  I've admonished my partner for talking down about the Twilight movies when she hasn't actually seen them--hence Twilight is now sitting shamefully at the top of our Netflix queue--which is why I haven't yet posted any sort of take down (or praise???)...

• Feminist Flashback #36

  Posted on Sunday May 10th, 2009 at 20:01 in books

  In honor of Mother's Day (Happy Mother's Day to you all!), for this week's feminist flashback I'm showcasing my own mother, Rita Dove, former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner. To say I'm proud of her and awed by her would be an understatement,...

• R.I.P. Marilyn French

  Posted on Monday May 4th, 2009 at 18:35 in books

  Marilyn French, Novelist and Champion of Feminism, Dies at 79:Her first and best-known novel, “The Women’s Room,” released in 1977, traces a submissive housewife’s journey of self-discovery following her divorce in the 1950s, describing the l...

• Congratulations to Carol Ann Duffy....

  Posted on Saturday May 2nd, 2009 at 11:43 in books, global, lgbtq

  GB...it's about damn time!After 341 Years, British Poet Laureate Is a Woman: The writer Carol Ann Duffy was appointed Britain’s poet laureate on Friday, becoming the first woman to take a 341-year-old job that has been held by, among others, Dryden...

• R.I.P. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

  Posted on Wednesday April 15th, 2009 at 11:28 in books, Academia, lgbtq

  I'm a few days late, but I just wanted to post a brief, through very heartfelt, note about the tragic loss of feminist and queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, who died the evening of Sunday, April 12th from breast cancer at the age of 58. There's a...

• Amazon Fail

  Posted on Monday April 13th, 2009 at 00:54 in books, lgbtq

  I have no words. And not just because this rising scandal has been up and down the Internets today and everyone's already said everything I'd like to say re: censorship, discrimination, and sheer stupidity. I can't wait to see how this is going to pa...

• Supergirls Speak Out Contest Details

  Posted on Saturday March 14th, 2009 at 11:32 in contests, books

  As I promised yesterday, in my interview post with author Liz Funk, here's your chance to win a free copy of Liz's book, Supergirls Speak Out: Inside the Secret Crisis of Overachieving Girls. In the interest of full disclosure, the copy I'm offering...

• Feminist Blogger Friday: Interview #3 with author Liz Funk

  Posted on Friday March 13th, 2009 at 09:00 in books, girls, interviews

  Come one, come all to the third installment of Fourth Wave's interview series with feminist bloggers and thinkers (the first two interviews can be found here and here and the next will be up April 10th). This month, I interviewed author Liz Funk, a s...

• Squeeing with the stars

  Posted on Tuesday February 24th, 2009 at 15:35 in books, television, other blogs, lgbtq

  Since I'm in LA for a couple more days--hence the lack of posting--it seems only right that I share with you all some completely uncritical, fangirly squee-age for the day. I promise that this won't happen too often here; I'll go back to being a dour...

• Put the Book Back in Scholastic Book Clubs

  Posted on Monday February 9th, 2009 at 10:23 in books

  For many of us who have kids (or who were kids in the last 30 years), Scholastic's book clubs played an important role in childhood by providing the opportunity to purchase low-cost, high-quality literature in schools. We remember the excitement of t...

• The Hathor Legacy's Year in Review

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 16:43 in books, Film, television, other blogs

  I meant to post about this a week ago, but somehow it slipped my mind. I may have mentioned before that I have a little side gig over at The Hathor Legacy helping out with marketing and PR. Last week, I posted two "year in review" posts over there, r...

• Feminist Flashback #18

  Posted on Monday January 5th, 2009 at 19:19 in books, flashback

  Sorry for the delay with this (last?) week's Feminist Flashback; I'm still behind from my travels and feeling some post-holiday inertia! This week's Flashback is an excerpt from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, an amazing (and very f...

• Feminist Flashback #15

  Posted on Sunday December 14th, 2008 at 20:08 in books, Film, flashback

  I'm not feeling particularly well (evil, pre-holiday cold coupled with below zero temperatures = not fun), so I apologize for my lack of posting. Nevertheless, here's today's Feminist Flashback, from Valerie Solanas' fascinating (originally self-publ...