Womanhood and Freedom in “The Girls” – Chicago Review of Books

Womanhood and Freedom in “The Girls” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The character of the old maid is not new to literature, as spinsters have appeared in classics from Charles Dickens to the Brontë Sisters to Virginia Woolf to Jane Austen. Most of us today would hesitate to use the same term to describe single, childless women of a certain age, but that doesn’t mean … Read more

Sisterhood Beyond Womanhood in “When We Were Sisters” – Chicago Review of Books

Sisterhood Beyond Womanhood in “When We Were Sisters” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] When Fatimah Asghar pictures her father alive, she imagines him ordering a pizza. “At the pizza shop he eyes pepperoni. . . . he orders a slice with no sauce,” a young Asghar observes. Asghar, a Chicago-based poet, writer, and artist, is the child of two Pakistani-Muslim refugees, both of whom died by the … Read more