- 41. 6 Women Writers Of Color To Read This Halloween
- (Books)
- ... talking—with good reason—about Machado’s debut short story collection. A finalist for the National Book Award, it’s an ode and subversion of the fairy tale mythos. Invoking the scathing feminist commentary ...
- Created on 30 October 2018
- 42. 12 New Books By Women Released In September 2018
- (Books)
- ... Complicated Woman's Guide To Surviving The Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself To Death by Erin Gibson (September 4) Throwing Shade host Erin Gibson brings her trademark feminist humor to this collection ...
- Created on 04 September 2018
- 43. 9 New Books By Women Authors To Add To Your To-Read List
- (Books)
- ... and feminist essayist Caitlin Moran’s heroine Dolly Wilde has to contend with fame, both her own and that of the man she loves. Dolly isn’t in a great place when the book opens; after leaving the suburbs ...
- Created on 15 August 2018
- 44. Gloria Steinem And Kathleen Hanna On Feminism, Riot Grrrl, And The Sexual Revolution: From The BUST Archives
- (Feminism)
- ... And the only feminist thing I had ever been to, Gloria spoke at with Bella Abzug—at the Solidarity Day in Washington, D.C. I guess it was the late ’70s, and I was 9 years old. GLORIA: Oh, that’s so great! ...
- Created on 15 August 2018
- 45. Writing the Body And Missing The Point: Mara Altman’s "Gross Anatomy
- (Books)
- ... step back a bit and contend with her incontrovertible mammalian qualities. But there is little of use here for well-read feminists, particularly intersectional feminists. Altman’s willingness to consult ...
- Created on 16 July 2018
- 46. 11 New Books By Women To Read This Summer
- (Books)
- ... 35 with breast cancer. She also reveals more of her own story through a series of essays about other notable feminists. Although the book is written with girls and women in mind, it remains all-inclusive ...
- Created on 25 June 2018
- 47. Isobel Gowdie Was Tried As A Witch In 1662—And Her Testimony Is Fascinatingly Proto-Feminist
- (Feminism)
- ... Peter Binsfeld's 1592 drawing, which according to historian Emma Wilby shows aspects of Gowdie's confessions From a present-day, feminist perspective, what is striking about so much of the content of Gowdie’s ...
- Created on 08 June 2018
- 48. What Did Jane Austen's and Charlotte Brontë's Obituaries Look Lik
- (Books)
- ... and is reprinted here with permission. top photo: Jane Austen, 1873; via Wikimedia Commons More from BUST 10 New Feminist-Friendly Books To Read This Spring Why Are Miniature Portraits Everywhere ...
- Created on 08 May 2018
- 49. Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski Finally Get Kicked Out Of The Academy: Link Roundup
- (Living)
- The Academy Expels Bill Cosby And Roman Polanski The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday that it finally voted to expel actor Bill Cosby and director Roman Polanski. The ...
- Created on 04 May 2018
- 50. “La Bastarda” Is The First Novel By An Equatorial Guinean Woman To Be Translated Into English
- (Books)
- ... women and gender in Africa; the novel isLa Bastarda (Feminist Press), a queer coming-of-age story that numbers less than 100 pages. Our main character is a teenage girl named Okomo, who lives with her ...
- Created on 16 April 2018
