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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Susan Faludi
Three Rivers Press, 2006
Witty and Aggressive! But still a few things to criticize.
+ A more likeable Elizabeth Wurtzel?
I have read this book over five times, and absolutely love it for its wit, humor and incredible investigative sharpness. There are things about the book I love, and things about the book I disagree with, but overall, Faludi has written a book that has kept people talking for almost twenty years. ...
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Right Wing Women
Andrea Dworkin
Perigee Trade, 1983
Ever wonder why some women are so antifeminist?
+ insightful
+ Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!
What's in it for them? Here is Andrea Dworkin to tell you in superb detail exactly why right-wing women stand against their sisters. She explains with in-your-face language how the right has managed to be highly successful in opposing women's rights. Dworkin pulls no punches and will never ...
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The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1996
Imaginative tale of a descent into madness
+ The (yellow) walls are closing in...
+ A Celebrated Chintz
This short story, based upon the author's own experiences, is a powerful tale of one intelligent woman's struggle with madness, the role of (married) women in society and family in the late 1800s, and how she copes with well-meaning but misguided relatives and their ideas of a woman's nature and ...
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Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man
Susan Faludi
Harper Perennial, 2000
What DOES it mean to be a man?
+ This book made me a Susan Faludi fan
+ Want to offer understanding to the men in your life?
+ Were the Astronauts Who Went to the Moon "Stiffed?"
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A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Harvest Books, 1989
Obligatory Reading
+ Still Relevant and Important
+ Smooth transaction
+ unavailable...
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In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution
Susan Brownmiller
The Dial Press, 1999
Substantial and chatty at once
+ A excellent resource for women's history
+ Born just enough too late
+ Essential, readable history of how women changed the world
+ "The Blood on the Floor was all Mine"
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Herland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Pantheon, 1979
Where No Men Exist
+ Misunderstood
+ good service
In her novel of a positive utopia made up only of women, Gilman gives us a vision of what perfection would be like, if only the inevitable power, money and sex did not get in the way of things. In Herland, there are no men thus eliminating the sex motivations. And they live a highly socialized ...
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Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral
Kris Radish
Bantam, 2006
A "Must Read"
+ Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral
I read this book because it sounded intriguing. I've recommended it to many people and sent it to a friend who could be a participant if I had my own "traveling funeral". It's funny,serious, heart-touching and very real. this is one of the very few books I'm keeping to reread. Please read it before ...
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Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn
Kris Radish
Bantam, 2004
Truly a Delight
+ Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn
My first introduction to Kris Radish's writing was Sunday List of Dreams, which inspired me to check out her earlier writings. What more can I say than "Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn" was truly a delight! And inspired me to read her other books!!
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The Elegant Gathering of White Snows
Kris Radish
Bantam, 2003
Really liked it
+ I couldn't put it down...
+ A Walk I enjoyed
+ Woman's book
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Pornography: Men Possessing Women
Andrea Dworkin
Plume, 1991
Men's hatred of women...
+ Her prose is an exercise in vitriolic masochism...
is limitless and inescapable. Personally, I believe all men are really only hot for each other. Men love same-sex men only environments: the military, religious institutions, political organisations are cultures created by and for males giving free reign for men's hot obsession with males and ...
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Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Ariel Levy
Free Press, 2006
A Fascinating Read
+ F-bombing great.
+ Looking for insight, Found it!
+ Eye Opening...the women behind raunch culture.
+ Girls in Reserve
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Femininity
Susan Brownmiller
Ballantine Books, 1985
It's About Time
+ Misleading, but Okay
+ The most illuminating book on the topic I've ever read.
+ About social expectations on women throughout the ages.
+ About social expectations on women throughout the ages.
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Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
Susan Brownmiller
Ballantine Books, 1993
Funny
+ Beautifully written, a masterpiece
+ An impartial view on the history of "comfort women" for soldiers
Funny how all the single star reviews come from men - truth hurts doesn't it?
Rape is not a women's issue it is a problem with MEN and MEN need to do the work to fix it.
There is something very very wrong with men in this hyper masculinized patriarchy.
FIX YOURSELVES!
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The Second Sex
Simone De Beauvoir
Vintage, 1989
the treaty on feminism
+ Worth more than gold
+ To what extent are women responsible for being the other?
+ good book
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