Woman Focused

Reviewed March 29 2020 Nicole Salmon: '[Kendall] provides a prescriptive call to action on how feminism can shift from focusing exclusively on a narrow list of issues where the benefits largely accrue to white women to embracing a broader list of issues reflective of the experiences of women of colour transgendered women and women with non-binary sexual identities." … [Read more...] about Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot

Reviewed December 13, 2019 by Katherine Verhagen Rodis: "In [Anne Boyer's] experience of having cancer the medical establishment ate away at her personal identity...she argues there is no space for your own agency in the cancer pavilion." … [Read more...] about The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care

Reviewed December 20, 2019 by Gail Picco: "...Ronan Farrow has provided us with a stellar work of investigative journalism. It’s a true story about truth and lies and power versus justice. And, frankly, it remains entirely unclear about which side is winning." … [Read more...] about Catch and Kill: Lies Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Reviewed November 22, 2019 by Juniper Locilento: "Kantor and Twohey are heroes for giving these women back their voices after having been silenced for so long. We won the battle, but it’s clear that we are far from winning the war." … [Read more...] about She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Reviewed November 12, 2019 by Maryann Kerr: "Throughout the book Joy Wiggins and Kami Anderson provide opportunities for the reader to move from systems thinking to self-reflection and individual action.  It is a journey in understanding that the personal is political and that our individual actions matter." … [Read more...] about Sabotage to Support: A new Vision for Feminist Solidarity in the Workplace