My reading list is idiosyncratic, a reflection of my personal interests and feelings. How did you decide what to read this summer?
My reading list is idiosyncratic, a reflection of my personal interests and feelings. How did you decide what to read this summer?
With Mother’s Day close at hand, I am devoting this newsletter to mothers – mine, yours, all of ours.
Current events should lead us to a new way of thinking about women’s history.
Thanks for reading my newsletter these last months, and for reading this one where I share the news that pub date is here.
It’s cold in Boston as I write and I’m feeling cooped up. Maybe you are too. I don’t have a magic fix but I think books can help.
Like quilts and blankets, the history of America is composed of many strands.
This month, I’m sharing an article I wrote for MS Magazine. Here it is, as it appeared on November 11.
Yesterday I voted in Boston’s mayoral election where there were two candidates, both women. A little more than a century ago, this could not have happened — neither me in the voting booth nor women on the ballot. Upstate New York had a lot to do with making it possible.
This month, I’m talking about art again. Actually, a book about art, The Mirror and the Palette, by Jennifer Higgie, where she covers five hundred years of women’s self-portraiture, a genre women have long practiced, even if mostly under the radar.
