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Women's Room - Marilyn French
Women's Room
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780515068962 (0515068969)
Publisher: Jove
Edition language: English
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Jules
Jules rated it
I read this years ago and I swear it changed my attitude about what was possible for a woman to have and to refuse. I haven't read it in years but I will re-read it someday for sure. I vaguely remember the movie with Colleen Dewhurst and Lee Remick. Would love to find and watch that again someday!
so many books, so little time
so many books, so little time rated it
3.0 The Women's Room
Some contemporary novels eventually become very instructive as historical ones. The mid-century social trappings have changed and to some extent certain issues like working outside the home have moved toward resolution, but the ingrained assumptions and the violence haven't changed a bit. In a react...
sonjbean
sonjbean rated it
this book was my entry to feminism.
meganbaxter
meganbaxter rated it
In one of those odd synchronicities, I was midway through the first half of this book when my husband and I watched the second-to-last episode of From Earth to the Moon, The Original Wives' Club. What struck me about the women in the episode was that, although the show painted it as the extraordinar...
elisas8
elisas8 rated it
4.0 Women's Room (Virago Modern Classics)
too much to discuss here, too much to think about. a feminist manifesto of sorts, with a not so feminist discussion of rape toward the end that only partially redeems itself... 2 quotes from the passage that challenges me the most (and which might not make sense out of context) : "I've dropped out ...
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