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| Dormant: Girlybooks : Masterpieces of Women's Literature | | 112 | yareader2, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Readers Over Sixty : Newsweek Article | | 17 | andyray, July 2007 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Tafadhali's 75 Book Challenge (2008) | | 2 | PiyushChourasia, May 30 |
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... 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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