The Women S Room

Author : Marilyn French
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748132140

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ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AND BESTSELLING NOVELS OF THE MODERN FEMINIST MOVEMENT 'It was about the need to change things from top to bottom; it was a declaration of independence' OBSERVER 'The first and last international bestseller of the women's movement' GUARDIAN 'They said this book would change lives - and it certainly changed mine' JENNI MURRAY, BBC RADIO 4 A landmark in feminist literature, The Women's Room is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with profound resonance today, this is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted blindly and revered so completely. It follows the transformation of Mira Ward and her circle as the women's movement begins to have an impact on their lives. A biting social commentary on an emotional world gone silently haywire, The Women's Room is a modern classic that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted so blindly and revered so completely. Marilyn French questions those accepted norms and poignantly portrays the hopeful believers looking for new truths.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789356843387

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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf Pdf

A Room of One’s Own is an essay written by Virginia Woolf. It was published in 1929 and is based on two lectures given by the author in 1928 at two colleges for women at Cambridge. In this famous essay, Woolf addressed the status of women, and women artists in particular. In this essay, the author also asserts that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write. According to Woolf, women’s creativity has been curtailed due to centuries of prejudice and financial and educational disadvantages. To emphasize her view, she offers the example of an imaginary gifted but uneducated sister of William Shakespeare, who, discouraged from all eventually kills herself. Woolf celebrates the work of women who have overcome that tradition and become writers, including Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontë sisters, Anne, Charlotte, and Emily. In the final section Woolf suggests that great minds are neutral and argues that intellectual freedom requires financial freedom. The author entreats her audience to write not only fiction but poetry, criticism, and scholarly works as well.

Author : Emma Donoghue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350419162

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Room by Emma Donoghue Pdf

In this deeply moving and life-affirming tale, a mother must nurture her five-year-old son through an unfathomable situation with only the power of their imagination and their boundless capacity to love. Written for the stage by Academy Award® nominee Emma Donoghue, this unique theatrical adaptation featuring songs and music by Kathryn Joseph and director Cora Bissett takes audiences on a richly emotional journey told through ingenious stagecraft, powerhouse performances, and heart-stopping storytelling. Room reaffirms our belief in humanity and the astounding resilience of the human spirit. This updated and revised edition was published to coincide with the Broadway premiere in Spring 2023.

Author : Mary Kember,Clare Ungerson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349259083

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Women and Social Policy by Mary Kember,Clare Ungerson Pdf

It is ten years since the first edition of this well-established text was published. The second edition contains an almost entirely new selection of readings, to bring the publication up-to-date, and to develop themes that are likely to remain topical into the late 1990s and beyond. Where possible and relevant, much of the material has a comparative (particularly European) perspective. The book is an essential text for students and teachers of social policy and women's studies.

Author : Marilyn French
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015029968826

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The Women's Room by Marilyn French Pdf

This novel tells the story of a generation who began their lives in the suburbs of the feminine mystique and those few, like the main character Mira, who were able to change. Mira's story tells us how the wives of the 50's became the women of the 70's.

Author : Carolyn Brown
Publisher : Montlake Romance
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612186424

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The Ladies' Room by Carolyn Brown Pdf

Originally published in 2011 by Avalon Books.

Author : Alicia Alvrez
Publisher : Conari Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1573245577

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The Ladies' Room Reader by Alicia Alvrez Pdf

Offers a compendium of interesting facts about women, covering everything from shopping, marriage, and food, to Oprah Winfrey, sex, pets, and cosmetics.

Author : Marilyn French
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558616509

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The Love Children by Marilyn French Pdf

A girl comes of age in the radical 1960s in this “beautifully written” novel by the groundbreaking author of The Women’s Room (Kate Mosse). It’s 1968 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jess Leighton, the daughter of a temperamental painter and a proto-feminist Harvard professor, is struggling to make sense of her world amid racial tensions, Vietnam War protests, anti-government rage, her own burgeoning sexuality, and bad relationships. With more options than her mother’s generation, but no role model for creating the life she desires, Jess experiments with sex and psychedelic drugs as she searches for happiness on her own terms. In the midst of joining and fleeing a commune, growing organic vegetables, and operating a sustainable restaurant, Jess grapples with the legacy of her mother’s generation while building a future for herself, and for the postmodern woman. “French’s meticulous and affecting tale of the forging of one woman’s conscience encompasses thoughtful portraits of ‘love children,’ from peace activists to members of unconventional families, and a forthright critique of the counterculture that puts today’s wars, struggles for equality, and environmental troubles into sharp perspective” (Booklist).

Author : Marilyn French
Publisher : McArthur & Co
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : Female friendship
ISBN : 9781770871120

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In the Name of Friendship by Marilyn French Pdf

Set in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts in the landmark year of 2000, this wise novel is a group portrait of four disparate women whose personalities vary as greatly as their circumstances and ages. The four weather past and present family crises while collectively they forge emotional links that help each person refashion her life.

Author : Eric Braun
Publisher : Movements That Matter (Alterna
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541523326

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The Women's Rights Movement by Eric Braun Pdf

"Women have come a long way since the first women's rights convention took place in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848--but women's rights activists are still working to expand rights today. What are the main concerns of women's rights activists today? And what challenges have women faced in the 1800s, 1900s, and 2000s in their fight for equality? Find out how Susan B. Anthony, Betty Friedan, and other groundbreaking activists paved the way for the women's rights movement today. And learn how activists are working with groups that speak out for the rights of racial minorities and members of the LGBTQ+ community to expand rights for all."--Publisher's description.

Author : Matrix
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015064900809

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Making Space by Matrix Pdf

Author : Marilyn French
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Love in old age
ISBN : 024113658X

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My Summer with George by Marilyn French Pdf

Author : Marilyn French
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143114505

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The Women's Room by Marilyn French Pdf

The twenty-one-million copy bestselling novel and provocative feminist classic that changed the world when it was first published in 1977 “With The Women’s Room, Marilyn French joined Simone de Beauvoir, Ralph Ellison, and that very small group of writers whose words spark a movement.” —Gloria Steinem In the 1950s, many American women left education and professional advancement behind in order to marry, only to find themselves adrift and unable to support themselves after divorcing their husbands twenty years later. Some became destitute; a few went insane. But many went back to school in the heyday of the Women’s Liberation movement, and were swept up in the promise of equality for both sexes. The Women’s Room tells the story of one such woman: a suburban 1950s housewife named Mira who divorces her loathsome husband and returns to graduate school at Harvard. Loosely based on Marilyn French’s own life, the story of Mira and her friends offers wry, piercing insight into the inner lives of a generation of American women. A powerful indictment of the patriarchal social norms of the time, it caused an uproar when it was first published in 1977, changing the course of the feminist movement forever. Today, it remains timely and eerily relevant—a courageous novel infused with revolutionary fervor that examines the world of hopeful believers looking for new truths.

Author : Marilyn French
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:777936550

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The Women's Room by Marilyn French Pdf

Author : Carol Sobieski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Feminism
ISBN : OCLC:71828159

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The Women's Room by Carol Sobieski Pdf