{"id":1646,"date":"2025-12-07T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2025-12-07T16:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:03:33","slug":"cats-and-their-ladies-from-wife-of-bath-to-willa-cather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/cats-and-their-ladies-from-wife-of-bath-to-willa-cather","title":{"rendered":"Cats and Their Ladies, From Wife of Bath to Willa Cather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/judith-beth-cohen-cats-and-their-ladies-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/judith-beth-cohen-cats-and-their-ladies-cover.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/judith-beth-cohen-cats-and-their-ladies-cover-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/judith-beth-cohen-cats-and-their-ladies-cover-768x607.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/judith-beth-cohen-cats-and-their-ladies-cover-210x166.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2>Cats and Their Ladies, From Wife of Bath to Willa Cather<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3>by Judith Beth Cohen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Judith Beth Cohen has created 24 collages that document the special relationship between women and their cats, inspired by hearing J.D. Vance disparaging \u201cchildless cat ladies.\u201d The wonderful old book, <em>The Literary Cat<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/judith-beth-cohen-tudor-women-and-ghost-cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/judith-beth-cohen-tudor-women-and-ghost-cat.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/judith-beth-cohen-tudor-women-and-ghost-cat-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/judith-beth-cohen-tudor-women-and-ghost-cat-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/judith-beth-cohen-tudor-women-and-ghost-cat-210x155.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Tudor Women and Ghost Cat<\/em> by Judith Beth Cohen<br>5&#8243;x8&#8243;; collage, paint, print and drawing; 2024. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE BOOK<\/strong><br><em>Cats and Their Ladies, From Wife of Bath to Willa Cather<\/em><br>by Judith Beth Cohen<br>29 pages; 7\u2033x9\u2033<br>ISBN 979-8991370417<br>$22.95 USD<br>Published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawmutpeninsulapress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shawmut Peninsula Press<\/a>, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purchase the book at the publisher&#8217;s website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawmutpeninsulapress.com\/books\/cats-and-their-ladies%2C-from-the-wife-of-bath-to-willa-cather\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.shawmutpeninsulapress.com\/books\/cats-and-their-ladies%2C-from-the-wife-of-bath-to-willa-cather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Judith Beth Cohen<br \/>\nShawmut Peninsula Press, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[116,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/judith-beth-cohen-cats-and-their-ladies-cover.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8O04t-qy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}