Maya Wilson Autzen

Category: Maya Wilson Autzen

March 29, 2021

Toxic Relationships: What Wuthering Heights taught me about love

MAYA WILSON AUTZEN questions whether Wuthering Heights is really such a perfect love story. Having initially read it when I was 13, I recently..

March 7, 2021

The Struggle for a Room of One’s Own in Lockdown

MAYA WILSON AUTZEN reflects on how Virginia Woof’s 1929 polemic A Room of One’s Own is still poignantly resonant nearly a century later. Re-reading..

December 31, 2020

The Trial of Eve

MAYA WILSON AUTZEN interrogates the aetiology of the fallen woman. The Book of Genesis provides not only the origin story of the Christian world..

October 19, 2020

Review: Mona Eltahawy’s ‘Headscarves and Hymens’

MAYA WILSON AUTZEN champions Mona Eltahawy’s 2015 polemic, which challenges Arabic misogyny and calls for an urgent sexual revolution. I recently finished Mona Eltahawy’s book..

September 29, 2020

Romantic Outlaws

MAYA WILSON AUTZEN contemplates the sanctity of the mother-daughter relationship, and how this resonates in the literary works of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. ‘The..

September 7, 2020

Woolf’s Women

MAYA WILSON AUTZEN considers what the unconventional women in Virginia Woolf’s novels and essays can teach us about contemporary issues of gender and sexuality. Reading..

August 10, 2020

Remembering Toni Morrison

On the anniversary of her death, MAYA WILSON AUTZEN reflects on how this year’s BLM movement has shed new light on Toni Morrison’s novels. The..

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