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Jessica Levine

Jessica Levine is the author of the just released novel "Three Cousins," the first in The Cousins Series, which dramatizes the struggles women have faced and continue to face as they define themselves in a society not ready to accept them as equals. Levine holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a Mellon Fellow. You can learn more about her at www.jessicalevine.com.

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12 Books about Second-Wave Feminism

Writing my third novel, Three Cousins, which features three young women coming of age in the 1970s, I was carried back to the works that brought second-wave feminism into conversations, relationships and lives at the time. These were books that impacted us not only intellectually, but also emotionally and viscerally.…
Jessica Levine
April 16, 2025