Cats and Their Ladies
From the Wife of Bath to Willa Cather
by Judith Beth Cohen
An irreverent and insightful collection of collage portraits celebrating women and their cats across history.
Paperback | 56 pages | 11 × 8.5 in
Publication Date: October 31, 2025
Paperback ISBN: 979-8-9913704-1-7
$22.95 (Paperback)
About the Book
An irreverent, insightful take on recent aspersions cast on women who love cats, this book consists of ironic and insightful collage renderings of women and their cats from across history. When readers see this, they'll have to buy it.
Judith Cohen has created 24 collages that illustrate the special relationship between women and their cats, inspired by hearing J.D. Vance disparage “childless cat ladies.” The wonderful old book The Literary Cat by Jean-Claude Suares and Seymour Chwast inspired her. Images include cartoonish figures as well as homages to classic artists such as Degas, Kandinsky, Picasso and Modigliani. Quotations about cats from Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, Leonardo, Jules Verne and others are featured.
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Genre
CGN026000 (Comics & Graphic Novels / Feminist)
CGN033000 (Comics & Graphic Novels / Satire)
HUM006000 (Humor / Topic / Politics)
About Judith Beth Cohen
Judith Beth Cohen was born in Detroit, Michigan, and has been an educator and writer for decades. She taught at schools as progressive as Goddard College in Vermont, as traditional as Harvard University, and as human service oriented as Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Previous books include Never Be Normal and Seasons. Her short fiction has appeared in The North American Review, New Letters, High Plains Literary Review, Sojourner, and other magazines and journals. Some of her collages are in the Human Rights International Anthology on Authoritarianism.
