“The world is not made for mothers. Yet mothers made the world,” writes Chelsea Bieker in her second novel, “Madwoman.” In her dedication for the book, Bieker includes a photo of her own ...

The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic' discusses the six women in the Talmud who are cited by name, and matches them with six paradigms of the female. In our time of war and pain, grief and loss ...

“I vowed to keep my secrets and keep myself hidden,” says Clove, the narrator of Chelsea Bieker’s new novel, Madwoman (Little, Brown and Company, 336 pages, $29). When Clove first met her ...

Jean Giraudoux's "Madwoman of Chaillot" is an oddly dainty protest play in which society's underdogs come out on top. Down with the fat cats, Giraudoux proposes as he gently arranges for the ...

Sandra Gilbert, a poet and professor of literature who co-wrote a landmark analysis of works by 19th-century female writers, ...

Gila Fine’s The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic reexamines Talmudic women, challenging stereotypes and offering fresh, scholarly perspectives on their roles and stories. The nightingale that ...

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The madwoman has the opportunity to be a disruptive force in how we understand femininity, disability, and power, but more often than not she is the opposite, a cautionary tale of what happens ...