Every Breath

Eileen Manion

“…we can be made foreign to ourselves, suddenly, 
by…

Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

Patriarchy Critiqued or Defended?

Eileen Manion

Women and Power

In The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell surrounds himself with young men: his son, his nephew, his protégé —…

Functional Friendships

“You appear, Mr. Darcy, to allow nothing for
the influence of friendship and…

The Slow & Devious Process of Change

­­­A Lament for the Women of Afghanistan

Three Women

“The heartbreak of all the unlived lives
 that ever were…”
 Vivian Gornick, Unfinished…

Aging Gracelessly

Eileen Manion

“By the way in which a society behaves toward its old…

A Short History Of Hate

When I was a kid, the Irish were my enemy. They would come tearing down the hill from their Catholic school…

Collective Destinies

Lila, Lenu & the Naples of Elena Ferrante

Barbara Confino

Fifty Years a Feminist

Eileen Manion

“It was as though revelation alone could deliver…