Tag Archives: Virginia Woolf

Literary Luminaries: Beards, Vaginas and the Avant-Garde Novelist – Part II

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Sam Mills

In Part II of her two-part essay, Sam Mills ponders why female avant-garde novelists are not as celebrated as their male counterparts. Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, Politics | Tagged #ReadWomen, Alice Munro, Anna Kavan, beats, Burroughs, Homeland, Joanna Walsh, Jonathan franzen, Sheila Heti, The Quiddity of Will Self, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith | 1 Comment

Gender, Genius, Genesis & James Woods

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Greg Olear

Why is it so much more difficult to make a list of the smartest women than the smartest men? Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged Adrienne Rich, Angela Davis, Anna Komnene, Betty Friedan, Carol Gilligan, Caroline Herschel, Catherine the Great, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth I, Emmeline Pankhurst, Fermat's Last Theorem, Florence Nightingale, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, George Eliot, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Hedy LaMarr, Helen Keller, Henrietta Leavitt, IQ 190, James Woods, Jane Austen, Jill Johnston, Judit Polgár, Madeleine Pelletier, Margaret Mead, Marguerite Durand, Marie de Gourney, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, Marilyn vos Savant, Mary Somerville, Mary Wollstonecraft, Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi, Olympe de Gouges, Rachel Carson, Shirley Ann Jackson, Susan B. Anthony, Táhirih, the Brontë sisters, the Grimké sisters, Theodora, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Victoria Woodhull, Virginia Woolf | 9 Comments

Beating a Manly Retreat

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Janet Steen

Sometimes a man needs an outbuilding. Continue reading →

Posted in Popular Culture | Tagged converted barn, garden shed, man cave, mancation, outbuilding, Virginia Woolf, XTC | 7 Comments

Tag Archives: Virginia Woolf

Literary Luminaries: Beards, Vaginas and the Avant-Garde Novelist – Part II

Gender, Genius, Genesis & James Woods

Beating a Manly Retreat

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