“Weaving the Stories of Women’s Lives” is the theme this year of Women’s History Month, which is observed in March. This year is also the 35th anniversary of the Women’s History Movement and the National Women’s History Project, which promotes Women’s History Month.
It seems the perfect time for reading and teaching about the work of women writers — without whom women’s stories most likely would be written out of history altogether.
A number of books available at www.DiverseBooks.net document the lives and work of women writers. Among them are:
Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers, by Nancy M. Grace and Ronna C. Johnson, $19.80 (List Price: $22), University of Mississippi Press, April 2004, ISBN: 9781578066544 pp. 224.
Women of the Beat Generation made significant contributions to the culture. This book brings together interviews, essays and biographical sketches that spotlight the work of nine of the best known women Beat writers: Diane di Prima, ruth weiss, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Joanne Kyger, Brenda Frazer (Bonnie Bremser), Janine Pommy Vega, Anne Waldman and Ann Charters.
http://diversebooks.net/breaking-the-rule-of-cool-interviewing-and-reading-women-beat-writers.html
Domesticity with a Difference: The Nonfiction of Catharine Beecher, Sarah J. Hale, Fanny Fern, and Margaret Fuller, by Nicole Tonkovich, $45, (List price: $50), University of Mississippi Press, July 2010, ISBN: 9780878059935, pp. 232.
