memoirs

BitchReads: 17 Memoirs Feminists Should Read in 2020

a side-by-side collage of three books: The Dragons, the Giant, the Women, All Boys Aren't Blue, and Fairest
by Evette Dionne
January 3, 2020 at 5:59pm
Tapping into a person’s unique experience and seeing the world through their eyes for a few hundred pages can expand our individual worldview.
a yellow book cover with a Mexican woman pictured in the past

Cherríe Moraga Honors Her Foremothers in “Native Country of the Heart”

by Roberta Nin Feliz
May 23, 2019 at 4:28pm
Capturing our foremothers’ stories is one of the ways in which women of color remember themselves. Read more »
a white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair and red lipstick wearing a black t-shirt

Dear Lane: “How To Be Alone” is Vulnerable, Funny, and Profoundly Healing

by Joshunda Sanders
November 5, 2018 at 2:28pm
How To Be Alone gave me closure for trauma. Read more »
a white woman comedian with brown hair and a hat with a man's hand in front of her

Funny Pages: Female Comedians and the Redefinition of the Memoir

by Erica Lies
October 16, 2018 at 9:59am
As memoirs are enjoying a huge popularity boost, the comedy genre has had an even larger surge in demand recently. Read more »
Courteney Cox as Jules Cobb on Cougar Town sitting in front of five glasses of dark wine

24-hour Women: Drinking to Escape Patriarchy

by Marissa Korbel
August 6, 2018 at 4:09pm
Alcoholic men are often praised for admitting they have a problem while alcoholic women are shamed. Read more »
Jean Guerrero holding a copy of Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir

At the Borders, On the Margins: Jean Guerrero’s “Crux” puts a reporter’s lens on family and memory

by Melissa Arjona
July 20, 2018 at 12:15pm
Memoir fans will love the ambitious and sometimes experimental structure of Jean Guererro’s debut. Read more »
Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl Strayed in Wild

Traveling Lite: Why Women’s Travel Memoirs Get Sold Short

by Rachel Friedman
July 11, 2018 at 2:03pm
Men’s stories are seen as universal, women’s as particular.  Read more »

No More White Girl Tales: “Mean” Reimagines Memoirs for Women of Color

by Kristin Sanders
November 13, 2017 at 9:22am
Myriam Gurba’s criticism of white America’s racial myopia couldn’t be better timed. Read more »