Nina Barrett

In her 1986 best seller ''The Good Mother,'' Sue Miller created a main character who didn`t have a loving husband, a fulfilling career or a supportive family, but did have...

Even if you haven`t read the original tale by Robert Louis Stevenson, you know the story: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, two sides of the same man. One, the perfect...

In the 1980s, many career experts told women that the secret to success in the workplace was learning to think like a man, act like a man and dress like...

What did the 14th Century`s Saint Catherine of Siena have in common with Karen Carpenter? According to some recent feminist scholarship, Catherine-like the other famous female fasting saints of the...

Can any book really tell you what to expect when you`re expecting? Certainly there`s no lack of books that try. But in their obsession with the ''normal'' or their sentimental...

To help holiday shoppers wade through the plethora of literary offerings, TempoWoman has assembled an eclectic list of some of the best by and about women: Novels - ''The Joy...

What kind of professor, entrusted with students` tender young minds, would rather explore their tender young flesh? This question concerns a growing number of American colleges, where feminist students and...

''The personal is political,'' said feminists of the 1970s. They believed that small groups of housewives eventually could change the world by sitting around in each other`s living rooms, pouring...