Literary Hub
This reading list gathers seven recent books that explore issues central to Mad Wife, concerning women’s desire, consent, and autonomy, especially as distorted by marriage: How much do we owe our spouses and partners, of our bodies and our care? What are we willing to do and risk to be true to ourselves and honor our heart’s desires? In a patriarchal culture that tells us to be and desire what men want of us, how can we even recognize our own desire or lack of it?