The mission of Danielle Drelinger’s new book, The Secret History of Home Economics is to show that home economics was and is about a lot more than girls spending their school years learning how to be housekeepers, or providing a career path for “failed” wives as home economics teachers.
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name was taken off an award because some librarians decided she was racist. Is she being held to an unreasonable standard?
It’s always a mistake to dismiss anyone in a Jane Austen too quickly, even shy, asocial, almost unlikeable Anne de Bourgh, Elizabeth Bennet’s rival…sort of…in Pride and Prejudice.
What is the real story behind the history we learn in school? How do we know?
Why I Read Fun Home Fun Home is a book that I have studiously avoided reading for a long time because I thought it was somehow about perversion and abuse, and I have read my fair share of memoirs about that topic. You get to a point in life, or at least I …
Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home”: What does being “true to yourself” actually mean? Read More »
Don’t know if you want fiction or nonfiction?? Almost Famous Women is a unusual collection that checks both boxes. Officially, it is a short story collection, but the entries could also be considered extra creative creative nonfiction. The stories are all based on real women: some of them, “almost famous” in their own right, and …
Almost short stories in Megan Mayhew Bergman’s “Almost Famous Women” Read More »
Don’t know if you want fiction or nonfiction?? Almost Famous Women is a unusual collection that checks both boxes. Officially, it is a short story collection, but the entries could also be considered extra creative creative nonfiction. The stories are all based on real women: some of them, “almost famous” in their own right, and …
Almost short stories in Megan Mayhew Bergman’s “Almost Famous Women” Read More »
Over the last couple of months, I have read several books by Lucy Knisley, but for one reason or another didn’t feel like they were right for The Lois Level. But then I realized that since I KEEP READING them, there must be something there. Basically, her work gets on my nerves a little bit …
