A Delhi-based English teacher by profession and a literary sleuth by passion, she spends her days coaxing adolescents to embrace commas, question metaphors, and occasionally, their own choices. She believes a well-placed semicolon can save a sentence and perhaps even a soul.
What does it mean to be a woman? This review unpacks Kawakami’s “Breasts and Eggs” alongside Naomi Wolf’s feminist critique.

“Breasts and Eggs” and the Burden of Becoming Woman

BY
Anukriti Tewari

What does it mean to be a woman? This review unpacks Kawakami’s “Breasts and Eggs” alongside Naomi Wolf’s feminist critique.

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