Why India Lacks Women Written Memoirs Critical Linking, July 24, 2019

Why India Lacks Women Written Memoirs Critical Linking, July 24, 2019 Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by Libro.FM “Besharam,” a word that means “shameless” in Hindi, is almost used exclusively against women who get “out of line.” It’s also the title of a collection of essays by Priya Alika Elias in which she reclaims the word while crafting a manual of sorts for the modern Indian woman. Besharam was the first time in my 30 years that I felt completely represented within a memoir; though fiction abounds in India, memoirs written by women remain conspicuously absent. Why? It can’t be because Indian women have nothing to say. A great read that takes a look at the lack of memoirs written by women in India. Enter Todd Alcott, who’s been delighting us all year with his “mid-century mashups,” an irresistible combination of vintage paperback covers, celebrity personae, and iconic lyrics from the annals of rock and pop. His homage to Help Me, above, is decidedly on brand. The lurid 1950s EC horror comic-style graphics confer a dishy naughtiness that wasâ€"no disrespectâ€"rather lacking in the original. Joni Mitchell reimagined as pulp fiction book coversâ€"I love when artists do this. Amazon removed books by Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, a clinical psychologist who is credited with originating gay conversion therapy, a debunked â€" and in some cases illegal â€" pseudoscientific method of trying to turn gay people straight. Nonetheless, the Republicans want to lobby to get his books â€" such as “A Parents Guide to Preventing Homosexuality” and “Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality” â€" back in circulation. The phobics are still at it. Sign up to Today In Books to receive  daily news and miscellany from the world of books.