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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | BookMooching : A Book Search Among Friends - November 2009 | | 69 | Heather19, Tuesday 11:29pm |  |
| Lectures des francophones : Cecilturtle - lectures de 2009 | | 69 | Cecilturtle, Tuesday 10:10pm | |
| Feminist Theory : Best 100 Nonfiction books on Women | | 33 | BookNrrrd, Thursday 1:37pm | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : The Female of the Species | | 18 | Bookmarque, December 1 | |
| New York Review Books : What NYRB are you reading? | | 212 | rbhardy3rd, November 28 | |
| 999 Challenge : Maaike's 999 challenge | | 66 | Maaike15274, November 24 | |
| Feminist Theory : how did you become interested in feminism? | | 27 | RedRightHand94, October 20 | |
| Canadian Bookworms : July 2009: What are you reading? | | 55 | LynnB, August 9 | |
| Girlybooks : Marilyn French | | 11 | Booksloth, July 20 | |
| The Black Orchid (A Nero Wolfe Group) : How different was America in 1940? | | 27 | LolaWalser, July 12 | |
| Most Disturbing Books : Who wants to read [Ten Books That Screwed Up The World] as a discussion/club? | | 15 | frdiamond, July 3 | |
| Book talk : 13 Books That Changed America | | 18 | destinyhascheatedme, June 20 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : VisibleGhost's 2009 Journey Thru The Bookosphere | | 210 | dchaikin, June 1 | |
| Girlybooks : The Books by Women that Every Woman Should Read and Why | | 37 | ElizabethPotter, May 4 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : It's all in the attitude | | 12 | mamalaz, May 3 | |
| Site talk : Recommendations pulled from thin air? | | 27 | kehs, April 5 | |
| 888 Challenge : How's everyone doing on the challenge? | | 151 | CarlosMcRey, January 27 | |
| 888 Challenge : ReneeMarie's 888 | | 40 | billiejean, January 4 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Tafadhali's 75 Book Challenge (2008) | | 13 | Tafadhali, December 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Adobe's 100 books in 2008 | | 56 | laytonwoman3rd, September 2008 | |
| Book of the month club : April books | | 16 | CarlaR, May 2008 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : 20 Questions...Continues | | 518 | christiguc, April 2008 | |
| Dormant: Early Reviewers : Anyone else still NEVER been chosen? | | 107 | lmedgerton, February 2008 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : sussabmax's 83 books | | 85 | Beary_Bookwormish, January 2008 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Aemilys 20 October 2007 | | 19 | aemilys, January 2008 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Chire's 50 | | 28 | chire, January 2008 | |
| Dormant: Girlybooks : Masterpieces of Women's Literature | | 112 | yareader2, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Readers Over Sixty : Newsweek Article | | 17 | andyray, July 2007 | |
Drivinʻ Woman by Elizabeth P. Chevalier
Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
The Ladies of Missolonghi
by Colleen McCullough
Lady L by Romain Gary
The Women* of Trachis by Sophocles
The word "women" is not in the original ... ... Back to the coast - Saskia Noort
- Jennie - Paul Gallico
- De koningin van Paramaribo - Clark Accord
- Mystique - Amanda Quick
Today I can finally start in: Robin Hobb's- The Dragon Keeper
I picked up copies of Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings and The Feminine Mystique off my library's free shelves. They are mass market paperbacks from the 1970's, but in good condition for their age. I'm offering them 2-for-1 to anyone who is interested. And, if you're interested, I'll ... ... et d'une longueur! On ne parvient même pas à s'attacher aux personnages... bref je ne le recommande pas. Mieux vaut lire The Feminine Mystique qui, à mon avis, a bien mieux vieilli.
57. Vinyl Cafe Diaries de Stuart McLean
C'est un des derniers de la série des Vinyl Cafe, une émissio ... ... I found she treated her female characters as cases and political examples rather than people.
I much preferred The Feminine Mystique. ... but my list would have to include A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A Room of One’s Own, The Second Sex, and The Feminine Mystique. Outside of the course, one of the best books I’ve read is Female Chauvinist Pigs, along with the Beauty Myth and Fat is a Feminist Issue. Alth ... ... there was not a lot of love and care in the characters - I really can't identify with them much.
I far preferred The feminine mystique which had a great narrative, a more research based approach and was more sincere in the sense that it is presented as an essay/personal experience and ... ... rights as individuals, especially in marriage, was just a blip on the social horizon. Betty Friedan's seminal work, THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE, wasn't published until 1963. And it wasn't until the 1980s that the idea that a husband was not supposed to rape his wife began to filter into our ... ... his list perfectly - I expect they were left out because so much has already been written about them. On the road and The feminine mystique sound like wishful thinking. It would be nice to think of them as books that changed America, but with hindsight (and seen from the outside) the ... ... The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock
12. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
13. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Have you read them?
Check out more posts and join the discussion at http://www.progressivebookclub.com/blog/ ... a revelation! And of course, there were Joan Baez and Judy Collins and Joni Mitchell and, and.... I read Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and swore I would never become a suburban housewife. Sisters, I did. But not until I had a Masters degree and almost a PhD and a 3 year old son, and ... ... is susie orbach fat is a feminist issue which has been highly recommended to me.
Finally I'm currently reading The Feminine Mystique which I am really enjoying.
And, though it's poetry Feminine Gospels Carol Ann Duffy should be suggested too.... ... It by Jennifer Crusie
Flirting With Pete by Barbara Delinsky
Tender is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan ... Civilization
Mein Kampf
The Future of an Illusion
Coming of Age in Samoa
Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male
The Feminine Mystique
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The Bible isn't one of the books, which doesn't surprise me. Have you had any replies yet? I'm just wondering if the tone of the book is ... ... = Falling for you / Jill Mansell
2. Fast Women / Jennifer Crusie
3. Mystique / Amanda Quick = Jayne A. Krentz
4. Not quite a lady / Loretta Chase
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VisibleGhost in 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : VisibleGhost's 2009 Journey Thru The Bookosphere (Jan 21, 2009, 11:39pm) ... )
10) How to Win Friends and Influence People
11) The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
12) On the Road
13) The Feminine Mystique
There is also a list of 100 more books at the end of the book. There were several on that list I was not aware of. All in all, I liked the book but ... ... What's for Dinner. Thus far, I can't seem to work up much interest. I feel like I'm caught in some nightmare version of The Feminine Mystique set in Levittown. ... up The Black Tower by Bayard, which is about Vidocq. I'm fairly sure Poe led Bayard to Vidocq.
Have to start reading The Feminine Mystique now for classics book group. And Mila 18 for historical fiction book group. And One Drop of Blood by Malcolmson for the museum book group. And ... ... example:
Filter by AnnaClaire's books tagged: woman suffrage {32 recommendations}
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13. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
1352 copies. 8 reviews. Average rating 3.79.
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15. The ... I just joined the challenge one month and two days ago. So far I've read 11 books -- about 17%. Not *too* shabby, except there are three categories for which I have not completed a single title (I have started them, though).
I've also changed my categories from what they were when I began. I ... ... Hour by Lillian Hellman *
7) Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets *
8) The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill *
9) The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
10) A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams *
11) A Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
12) Tender is the Night ... ... -- especially the sections on education of women.
And for those of us who came of age in the 60s, Betty Friedan 's The Feminine Mystique liberated us from the somnombulence of suburban wifehood and Simone de Beauvoir 's The Second Sex challenged us to think about place in the ... ... this one part way through)
4 How Novels Work - John Mullan
5 The Memoirs of Cleopatra - Margaret George
6 The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan (reread)
7 Animal's People - Indra Sinha
8 The Haunted Hotel - Wilkie Collins
9 Darkmans - Nicola Barker
10 Being Emi ... The Feminine Mystique? ... by Natalie Babbitt
Beneath the white gulls,
the dunes fall into the sea.
Waves foam past footprints.
29. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Housewives drink high-balls
and mop the kitchen again.
Their husbands work late.
30. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas ... I am in the middle of The Feminine Mystique, and I was a bit jarred by the homophobia, too! I thought it was a very odd explanation of homosexual behavior, especially as it only addressed men, not lesbians. I also thought it was jarringly out of place in an otherwise well-argued book. ... ppointing
34. Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee - a cheat
35. La Maladie de la Mort by Marguerite Duras - a classic
36. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan - what a strange experience rereading this I find out she has a lot of weird homophobic hangups and is not quite the person I found ... ... works for positive matches. For example: If I express interest in a book about women's issues than it would help if I had The Feminine Mystique in my library. But if I also had mysoginist writings, i.e. Ian Fleming, would that hurt my chances?
(Hmmmm... no touchstone for Ian Fleming?)
... ... well read more of it.
Edited to add: The reason it took me so long to finish another book is that I also read half of The Feminine Mystique since And Then We Came to the End, which I will be getting back to next. ... its social significance (it remains a talking point in histories of the period even now) clearly supports its inclusion. The Feminine Mystique is a terrific book, teelgee, and a quick and easy read. It's widely available in cheap editions too.
Given some of the comments above, I think it's ... Fear of Flying, by Erica jong
The Female Eunuch, by Germaine Greer
The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan
Feminine Psychology, by Karen Horney
Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism, by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Fifth Chinese Daughter, by Jade Sn ... 26. Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
27. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan ... women, in the fifties, the women i knew in college and after mostly wanted to live a Leave it to Beavor life, and The Feminine Mystique was a revelation. The graduate schools then were refusing places to women by saying that they would just get married and waste their training.
I did ... ... Catalog x
Our Bodies, Ourselves
On the Road x
Bright Lights, Big City x
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest x
The Feminine Mystique
The Autobiography of Malcolm X x
Understanding Media
The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird x
Stranger in a Strange Land x
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