Renate Bridenthal is professor of history at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She was a founder and coordinator of the Brooklyn College women's studies program and a co-founder at the City University Women's Coalition. Bridenthal is co-editor of Becoming Visible: Women in European History and of When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany.
Read MoreRobin M. Boylorn is Assistant Professor of Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication at The University of Alabama. She is the author of the award-winning monograph Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience (Peter Lang 2013), and co-editor of Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life (Left Coast Press 2014).
Read MorePhilip Boehm is an American playwright, theatre director and literary translator.
Read MoreZheng Bijun is professor emerita of history and the former director of the Women's Studies Center at Peking University. She has published widely on women in Chinese history.
Read MoreLillie Devereux Blake (1833-1913) was a fiction writer, essayist, journalist, lecturer, and activist. She was a prominent organizer for the women's suffrage movement and was instrumental in the founding of Barnard College.
Read MoreNguyen Thi Thanh Bình has a degree in Vietnamese and foreign literature. Since 1978, she has been an editor at the Women's Publishing House (Hanoi), where she is responsible for Vietnamese literature.
Read MoreLuke Dani Blue (they/them) is a writer whose work has appeared in the Colorado Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Best American Short Stories 2016.
Read MoreEvi Blaikie was born in Paris to Hungarian Jewish immigrants less than a year before the outbreak of World War II. Narrowly escaping the Holocaust and subsequently moving throughout Europe with her family, Evi attended the University of Vienna, Austria. In 1960, Evi left Europe, moved to Venezuela, and immigrated from there to the United States. Now, Evi works part time for an environmental organization. Magda’s Daughter: A Hidden Child’s Journey Home is her first full-length work.
Read MoreDalya Bilu is a well-known translator of Hebrew literature and has translated the works of Zeruya Shalev, A. B. Yehoshua, Yaakov Shabtai, Aharon Appelfeld, Judith Katzir, Batia Gur, and more. She has been awarded the Israel Culture and Education Ministry Prize for Translation, the Times Literary Supplement Prize and the Jewish Book Council Award for Hebrew-English Translation.
Read MoreBarbara Bick (1925-2009) was a longtime peace and human rights activist, and the author of Culture and Politics and Walking the Precipice.
Read MoreJacqueline Bernard (1921 - 1983) was a reporter, activist, and author.
Read MoreBruce Benderson is the translator of many authors from the French, including Virginie Despentes, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Pierre Guyotat, and, though it is quite far away from his usual subject matter, the autobiography of Celine Dion. He is also the author of several novels and works of nonfiction.
Read MoreFaith Baldwin (1893-1978) was one of the most prolific mid-twentieth century authors of popular fiction. She published eighty-five books between 1921 and 1977, many of them focused on women juggling family and career, including White Collar Girl, Men Are Such Fools!, and An Apartment for Peggy, which was made into a Hollywood film in 1948.
Read MoreDina Bakst, co-president of A Better Balance, cofounded the organization to advance the legal rights of pregnant women and caregivers in the American workplace.
Read MoreAsja Bakić (1982) is a Bosnian poet, writer, and translator.
Read MoreHelène Aylon was a visual, conceptual, installation performance artist and eco-feminist.
Read MoreArlene Voski Avakian is on the women's studies faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is editor of Through the Kitchen Window: Women Explore the Intimate Meanings of Food and Cooking.
Read MoreMary Austin (1868 – 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest with her most famous work, The Land of Little Rain (1903).
Read MoreJune Arnold (1926-1982) is the author of Applesauce (1966), The Cook and the Carpenter (1973), and Sister Gin (1975). Her fourth novel, Baby Houston, was published posthumously in 1987.
Read MoreElecta Arenal, professor emeritus of Hispanic and Women's Studies (City University of New York), is a translator and specialist in Hispanic monastic women's culture. From 1997 to 2001 she directed the Center for the Study of Women and Society and coordinated the Women's Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate Center/CUNY.
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