In our era of #MeToo and fresh attempts to break the gender biased
holds on our culture, a portrait of gender bias in the art world offers
a microcosm of the pervasive challenges to achieving equality. Living
Dolls and Other Women provides a fictionalized account of that world
set against the pervasive sexual harassment in every corner of urban
daily life. Set in the late 1980s, with New York City in the middle of a
real estate crash, Living Dolls and Other Women chronicles the lives
of five urban women as well as an activist organization comprised of
women in the art world, the Living Dolls. Living Dolls and Other Women
is an urban drama, chock full of action: crime, mystery, culture, and
romance. The book takes on the contemporary issues of sexual harassment
and discrimination, artistic merit, feminism, family values, and sexual
preference. It delves into the main characters' lives and traces
dramatic and personal transformations of each. The comical yet dead
serious antics of the Living Dolls thread through the novel as the
backbone of the book