the feminist librarian

Photograph by Laura Wulf I had my annual physical last week, and for the first time in a couple of years I actually looked at the readin...

It's been awhile, what with one thing and another, since I actually did a book review post. I'm hoping to get at least one per wee...

For the past several weeks I've been reading through motive magazine from 1962-1972 in preparation for a conference paper I'm de...

A few weeks ago, I was sent a review copy of Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett's latest collaboration, The New Soft War on Women: How ...

I had a blog post up yesterday  at The Beehive (the Massachusetts Historical Society blog) sharing an item from our collections authored by...

You may have heard about the teaching assistant who recently accidentally sent a nude photograph of herself to her students in lieu of th...

Molly Haskell at a book signing for My Brother, My Sister  ( via ) Just before leaving on vacation, I was asked to review the new memoi...

I've been seeing this statement coming through on my RSS and Twitter feed for the last few days, and have finally had a moment to sit do...

To: abross@npr.org From: feministlibrarian@gmail.com Re: Chelsea Manning Dear Ms. Bross, I am contacting you as a lifetime listener an...

I realize writing commentary about a New York Times ladypiece is picking low-hanging fruit, but I have a sinus headache and it's too ear...

For fun and scholarly research today, I'm reading the March/April 1969 issue of motive  magazine -- a special issue dedicated to what wa...

In the months before we got married, Hanna and I decided we were going to combine our middle names upon marriage: Elisabeth + Jane = Elisa...

Having just submitted my first work of original erotica for consideration for a Cleis Press anthology, I decided it was apropos to work out ...

note:  this post was originally written to be cross-posted at the family scholars blog . since I drafted it, the family scholars blog has go...