The Village Adroit

A publicist at Harper Collins sent me several books for consideration within inContext. One is Theresa Brown’s CRITICAL CARE  (HarperO...

Last week, I wrote about Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s  WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN SELDOM MAKE HISTORY . This week, I want to share the story of Me...

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is the woman behind the phrase, “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” This short sentence, which was the op...

The  Avon  cosmetic company has a campaign to raise funds and awareness about domestic violence in the United States. My mother bought...

Here's what I created today to express sadness over the death of Steve Jobs. It is sad that someone so young and full of life had to die...

In  FULL FRONTAL FEMINISM: A YOUNG WOMAN’S GUIDE TO WHY FEMINISM MATTERS , (Seal Press, 2007) Jessica Valenti demands that I “Hyphenat...

inContext explores all kinds of topics related to women’s lives and how women are represented in literature. One topic that is largely...