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... I'm pretty easy)
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold DONE, 12/28/09
4. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
5. Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism by Danya Ruttenberg
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The House of Mirth by ... ... Mice and Men John Steinbeck read
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
They Shoot Horses Don't They Horace McCoy
The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir
Companion of the God Ogum Jorge Amado
The Baron in the Trees Italo Calvino
Prey Michael Crichton
Smillas Feeling ... De Beauvoirʻs Second Sex ... pinpoint my favourites 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 ... ... drastic losses when I remembered her words and Virginia Woolf. From there, I went on to read Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and that sent me right back to college after many years in search of a degree in women's studies. Then followed a little book called Critical Practice by ... ... very excited about the new translations of Proust? What about if we could ever get a decent translation into English of The Second Sex? What about works that were translated in the 19th century and significantly expurgated, versus a complete translation done in more modern times? What about ... I'm reading some parts of the classic feminist work Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir and Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch this weekend. Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir because it tells you things about women you won't find anywhere else. ... by women)
The Canterbury Tales
Inferno
The Aeneid
Gulliver's Travels
Paradise Lost
The Iliad
Feminism
The Second Sex
Sister Outsider
The Dialectic of Sex
Ain't I a Woman
The Female Eunuch
Unbearable Weight
killing rage: Ending Racism
Toward a Feminist The ... ... Faderman
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27. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
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28. The grounding ... ... 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 world.
I also was intrigued by Elaine Morgan's The Descent of Woman, Elizabeth Gould Davis's The First ... 25 (It's already the end of April and I'm only a quarter there?! Oh no...I need to shake a leg this summer) is The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. There is a reason I only just completed my 25th book, and it's this. Long and unwieldy...I can't believe I read *all* of it. It seems like I ... A Vindication on the Rights of Woman and The Second Sex in the feminist movement... ... the list. I can't remember much about the Anne Tyler novel, except that I liked it at the time. I don't think I'd recommend The Second Sex for everyone, but I also enjoyed in the early 90's reading Women's Ways of Knowing and Writing a Woman's Life and would recommend them both. ... A Woman's Journey to the Amish, Sue Bender (memoir, US)
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, Ntozake Shange (novel, US)
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir (nonfiction, France, trans from French)
The Straight Mind (and Other Essays), Monique Wittig (essays, France)
Talking Back: Thinking ... The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvior The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir ... pretty well with the R's & S's although, as always, I read most of these a long time ago: Rebecca, A Room of One's Own, The Second Sex, Sexual Politics, Silent Spring, Slouching towards Bethlehem, Sonnets from the Portuguese, Sula, and Surfacing.
T's etc., not so many, only: T ... ... Steinem
Rich in Love, Josephine Humphreys
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature, Elizabeth Hardwick
Sexing the Cherry, Jeannette Winterson
Sexual Politics, Kate Mil ... ... more books?)
Rugby Skills, Tactics and Rules by Tony Williams
The Collected Stories of Noel Coward by Noel Coward
The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
Days Far Away: Memories of Charles Paget Wade edited by Michael Jessup
John Brown, abolitionist : the man who killed slavery, ... ... myself.
Another key text is The Madwoman in the Attic which explores feminist theory in nineteenth-century novels, and The Second Sex is also fantastic although loses something in translation. ... reader with the topic. I would suggest checking it out.
I would shy away from assigning full texts. Although reading The Second Sex is important, it might take up too much time/effort in an intro class. My favorite quote from Casablanca. I'm a sucker for unrequited passion.
(Annina is contemplating Renault's offer of exit visas for sex)
Annina: Oh, monsieur, you are a man. If somone loved you very much, so that your happiness was the only thing that she wanted in the world, but she did a ... ... factor.
Actually, that's one of the reasons that I like separate sections. If I know I'm looking for The Second Sex, that's one thing. But if I want to see what's new in women's studies, it's nice to be able to browse that section, instead of the entire store. ... been reading lots of Allende and Woolf, who talk to each other in very interesting ways.
Also just picked up the Second Sex which I'll probably read in fits and starts over the next year. I love de Beauvoir. I usually stick to small books for my short attention span, but here:
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
Triplanetary, First Lensman, and Galactic Patrol by E. E. Smith which are all in one volume for me.
Under the Moons of Mars by Edgar ... Hi--I have read some of Simone de Beavoir's work, and I would think that, especially considering your WOST certificate, The Second Sex would be a good book to look into. Obviously, that's too broad on its own, but you could focus on something like Part III, Myth's, and then more narrow into ... Busy reading week for me so far. I haven't touched de Beauvoir for several years now, other than The Second Sex, then all of a sudden realized that there is a whole gap which I need to fill :) so I started with The Mandarins... This was very interesting, although I think I just jumped into ...
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