The Tyranny of the Ideal Woman by Jia Tolentino - How we became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization…
Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain by Leslie Jamison - The pain of women turns them into kittens and rabbits and sunsets and sordid red satin goddesses, pales them and bloodies them and starves them, delivers them to death camps and sends locks of their hair to the stars
The Female Body by Margaret Atwood - The Female Body has many uses…
No One ‘Has It All,’ Because 'Having It All’ Doesn’t Exist by Lindy West - Look at me, “eating” my “cake”! And that “other” “cake” too!
How to Shake Hands with a Woman by Lindy West - What’s next – dogs on their hind legs wearing pith helmets and taking all the best gentleman explorer jobs!?
Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet by Amanda Hess - We have been thinking about Internet harassment all wrong..
Why Women Smile by Amy Cunningham - Despite all the work women have done to get and maintain full legal control of our bodies, not to mention our destinies, we still don’t seem to be fully in charge of a couple of small muscle groups in our faces
A Thin Line between Mother and Daughter by Jennifer Egan - It can be eerie, in light of our presumed uniqueness, to discover how closely the experiences of one’s contemporaries parallel one’s own…
Pause by Mary Ruefle - I wanted to die. Literally, to kill myself – with an iron, a steaming hot turned-on iron. This was not depression, this was menopause
What Do Women Want? by Daniel Bergner - How cutting-edge research is helping to unravel the many complexities of female desire