When I began considering Anne Sexton, the American poet who could not bear the sexism of the mid-20th century Western world, and read in her...
13.062015September 10, 2019

Report from the Field: To Lift Off My Veil
By Jessica ReidyIn Reports from the FieldTags Anne Sexton, Anne-Marie Slaughter, career, culture, East, equality, ethnicity, family, Feminism, hijab, houses, housewife, identity, Irag, Iragi, Islam, liberation, marriage, Muslim, Nadia Fayidh Mohammed, patriarchy, poet, Poetry Quarterly, professor, race, religion, rights, role, sacrifice, Sparkling Light, The Atlantic, tradition, translator, veil, West, Why Women Still Can't Have it All, Women, Women of Color