Books
Page Turner: An Interview with Instinctive Mama Author Ada Calhoun
You’ve likely encountered the work of writer and editor Ada Calhoun—whether it’s her editorial work on... Read more »
Eat, Pray, Spend: Priv-Lit and the New, Enlightened American Dream
Even as reports on joblessness, economic recovery, and home foreclosures suggest that no one is immune to risk during this recession, the popularity of women’s wellness media has persisted and, indeed, grown stronger.
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Adventures in Feministory: Sara Estela Ram
Called the "muse of Texas" in her 1910 obituary, Sara Estela Ramírez was a poet and activist in the politically-charged border town of Laredo, and used her words to inspire workers and women alike.
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A New D
Shobhaa Dé came to the Indian publishing scene in the late-1980s like a South Asian Jackie Collins and has been credited with paving... Read more »
Read My Bitch: A new podcast by Bitch Media
Read My Bitch is a brand-new audio segment that features Bitch Magazine readers and subscribers sharing one of their favorite articles from the archives by reading it aloud and discussing it afterwards. For our first episode, Kristin reads aloud “Harriet and Claudia, where have you gone? Notes on... Read more »
The Immortal Woman: Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks deserves every ounce of praise that has been heaped on it. Rebecca Skloot has one heck of a story to tell, a story that actually belongs to another woman: Henrietta Lacks.
The book is partially a retelling of Henrietta’s life and her death, but also a... Read more »
The Biotic Woman: Parting Ways, Moving On
My time on the Bitch blog comes to a close today. It's been nothing but an honor and privilege to be here, dissecting environmental issues and animal rights among some other stellar bloggers. I had a number of things that I wanted to tackle that never made the blog, and mostly, I straight up ran... Read more »
New and exclusive: Enlightened Sexism excerpt, and an interview with author Susan Douglas
Susan Douglas’s seminal 1995 book Where the Girls Are: Growing Up with the Mass Media explored how woman see and are seen in pop culture, tracing feminism in
pop culture from the 1950s and ’60s through the 1980s. Her newest book, Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That... Read more »
BiblioBitch: King Kong Theory
The first line of Virginie Despentes’ King Kong Theory (written originally in French as King Kong Theorie and then translated into English) is:
“I am writing as an ugly one... Read more »
Tina Fey: Esquire Fantasy Edition
So, Tina Fey is on the cover of the April 2010 Esquire:
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