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Her newest project is "The Goddess Lounge"
Margaret Finnegan is finishing a novel about motherhood, love, and the tension between self-sacrifice and the pursuit of pleasure. Entitled “The Goddess Lounge,” it grapples with the eternal question: why be a hero when you can be a goddess? (Read an excerpt.)
In addition, she recently completed the manuscript for “Paragraph Pie,” a children’s picture book.
She provided the audio commentary for the four suffrage films featured in the DVD collection "Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900–1934," which was chosen as one of the top ten DVD collections of 2007 by TIME. The San Francisco Chronicle called her commentaries “illuminating,” and, according to the Austin Chronicle, Finnegan “comes on like a well-off academic’s Sarah Vowell, her distinctive voice and dry asides helping to illuminate ‘how films can participate in larger conversations between popular culture and political life.’”
Her essay “A Hero’s Retreat,” was reprinted in "Life as We Know It: A Collection of Personal Essays from Salon.com." Edited by Jennifer Foote Sweeney. New York: Washington Square Press, 2003.
Her comprehensive knowledge of this subject matter drew the attention of Oxford University Press, which asked her to write entries for “Consumer Culture” and “Consumer Movement” for the 2001 edition of the “Oxford Companion to United States History.”
After four years of historical research and study, Margaret Finnegan finished her manuscript for “Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women” in 1998. It was published in 1999 by Columbia University Press.