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• Felled by "The Ten-Year Nap"

  Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:34 PM By Emily Bazelon
  
  I'm sure Marjorie is right that we don't know the half of the Walkers' feud—how can we, since we're only hearing Rebecca's side? And I agree with Marjorie and Maureen that feminism should entail a little effort to think from the perspective of a woman Read More...
  Filed under: Alice Walker, feminism, motherhood, Rebecca Walker: Meg Wolitzer

• Narcissim Isn't the Whole Issue

  Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 2:33 PM By Lucy Morrow Caldwell
  
  Rebecca Walker may be a narcissist, but this quality alone is not what bothers me. Her mother Alice has been called the same, yet in the older Walker’s groundbreaking 1983 novel The Color Purple , she managed to forge some meaningful social commentary. Read More...
  Filed under: Alice Walker, children, motherhood, Rebecca Walker

• Walker vs. Walker

  Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 12:42 PM By Nina Shen Rastogi
  
  A few weeks ago, memoirist Rebecca Walker published an essay in the U.K.’s Daily Mail titled “How my mother's fanatical views tore us apart,” which has been making the American Internet rounds in recent days. The mother in question is Alice Walker, prominent Read More...
  Filed under: Alice Walker, children, motherhood, Rebecca Walker

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