The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle DOUGLAS & Amy Hest's wry text sets

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The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle DOUGLAS & Amy Hest's wry text sets"A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page." New York Times Combining the soul baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen's Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator's compulsively readable memoir about anorexia and language, and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women's work and feminist protest. The