A working library

Sisters of the Yam by bell hooks (South End Press, 1993) bell hooks explores notions of self-care among communities of Black women, locating it alongside the work of grief, testimony, and reconciliation.

In an effort to understand the then-present state of women in the workplace, Virginia Woolf goes looking to the newspapers, where she finds a number of letters and articles declaiming that women have too much liberty, that they are taking jobs that men co…

Annals of the Western Shore by Ursula K.

In despair at a critical review, Virginia Woolf turned to her husband and asked, Well, then, what should she do about such abuse?

Searoad by Ursula K.

“What is meant by ‘reality’?”

Mitz by Sigrid Nunez (Soft Skull Press, 1998) In the summer of 1934, Leonard and Virginia Woolf adopted a marmoset named Mitz.

In Three Guineas, an essay that expands on her writing in A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf responds to a letter asking her to lend her support to the effort to prevent war.

A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf (Oxford, 1929, 1938) This pair of essays from Virginia Woolf explores women’s exclusion from the systems of education and work on two fronts: first by arguing that women’s creativity depends upon eco…