Gardens. She earned her PhD in British history from the University of California at Riverside and was a visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Redlands before joining The Huntington in 2013. Wilkie has curated two exhibitions: "Magna Carta: Law & Legend" and "The Reformation: From the Word to the World." She has published on female editorial practices, patronage, and death rituals. Wilkie's new book is A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England.
At Lit Hub she tagged seven "provocative histories about women and their communities," including:
Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement ForgotRead about the other entries on the list.
Books are often the tools for dialogues within feminist histories, and Beck and Mikki Kendall should be read in conversation with one another. Kendall writes, “[w]hen white feminism ignores history, ignores that the tears of white women have the power to get Black people killed while insisting that all women are on the same side, it doesn’t solve anything.”
Her book is a history of the devastating impact “white feminism” has had on communities of color and argues that issues that are central to the lives of women of color must also be central to feminist discourses.
--Marshal Zeringue
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