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Kathleen Landy
Kathleen Landy is the Founder and President of The Feminist Institute, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to collecting, digitizing, and sharing the rich history of feminist art, humanities, politics and business, and making that archive globally accessible—for free. You can learn more and join the cause at www.thefeministinstitute.org
Guest Critic
Welcome to the Feminist Institute’s Guest Critic Edition of the Brooklyn Rail
By Kathleen LandyWomen have shared their wisdom with one another for millennia, in oral histories that teach and inform subsequent generations of women about family, home, sex, power, politics, and survival. But patriarchal histories didn’t include these contributions. Huh!
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