Blog The Cool Girl Reads: Examining The Social Currency Of Books In 2022 LRR, May 26, 2022February 8, 2025 A recent phenomenon has taken social media by storm: That Girl, AKA the Cool Girl. So, the question is, what is she reading? Or, should we be reading it, too? Continue Reading
Blog A Night At The Ballet LRR, February 9, 2022February 8, 2025 Television has increasingly represented a new, digital-age wave of postfeminism: dissociation feminism, which rejects happy-go-lucky fourth wave feminism, instead embracing a more nihilistic perspective. Though dissociation feminism can be a darkly relatable school of thought, it is important that audiences remain critical of its values, especially in terms of sexual liberation… Continue Reading
Blog Romance Novels: A Safe Space For Female Representation LRR, February 1, 2022February 8, 2025 Rylee Thomas passionately defends romance novels as a place for positive representation and female joy… Continue Reading
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Books That I’ve Binge-Read in 24 Hours (That You Probably Could Too) By: Breanna Patterson LRR, March 14, 2017February 8, 2025 Oh, the joys of a book that you can blow through in a single day. It’s magical how some writers can drag you into their work and make you completely unwilling to put their piece down. In the spirit of “a bit of light reading,” as my beloved Hermione Granger… Continue Reading
Looking Into the Mystique of Betty Friedan by Allison McLellan LRR, February 4, 2016February 8, 2025 “I never set out to write a book to change women’s lives, to change history. It’s like, ‘Who, me?’ Yes, me. I did it. And I’m not that different from other women.… Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was… Continue Reading
Exploitation of Femininity in “The Hunger Games” LRR, February 24, 2013February 8, 2025 Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games is classified as a young adult book. There are several characteristics that define a book as young adult literature, but the strongest characteristic is the main character’s ascension to adulthood as he or she grapples with issues of power. While Katniss initially appears to be… Continue Reading