In my inbox today was a newsletter from Penguin Classics UK in which they list the… Top Ten Cruellest Classics (wah, ha, har!) They didn’t say ‘wah, ha, har!’ that was me. I thought it needed something. They did say this, however: Despite some sunny days recently, we wouldn’t dare argue with T. S. Eliot [...]
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On International Women’s Day – Ten Influential Books (and a quick poll)
Which of these titles had the greatest influence on your life and thought…? Vote in our poll below… THE FEMALE EUNUCH by Germaine Greer is probably the most famous, most widely read book on feminism ever… When THE FEMALE EUNUCH was first published in 1970, it created a shock wave of recognition in women around [...]
Filed under: Biography/Memoir, Contemporary Literature, Contemporary Women's Fiction, Current Affairs, Cutural Studies, Extract, Feminism, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Social Commentary | Tagged: A Room of One's Own, A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN, Ariel Levy, Betty Friedan, Doris Lessing, FEMALE CHAUVINIST PIGS, Germaine Greer, Marilyn French, Mary Wollstonecraft, MY BRILLIANT CAREER Miles Franklin, Naomi Wolf, Simone de Beauvoir, THE BEAUTY MYTH, THE FEMALE EUNUCH, THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE, THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK, THE SECOND SEX, THE WOMEN'S ROOM, Virginia Woolf | 3 Comments »