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The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
James Mustich
By Simone de Beauvoir’s own account, Sartre had a critical role in the genesis of The Second Sex. When she told him that she was about to embark upon a memoir of her childhood, he suggested she consider how being a woman had shaped her upbringing and engagement with the world. After some resistance,...show more
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The Coming of Age
Simone de Beauvoir
“Old age is an island surrounded by death,” the nineteenth-century Ecuadorean essayist Juan Montalvo wrote. In her impassioned book, which spans a thousand years and a variety of nations and cultures, Simone de Beauvoir asserts that all too often the inhabitants of that island are left to their own ...show more
The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan
When asked, in 1957, to conduct a survey of her Smith College classmates on the fifteenth anniversary of their graduation, Betty Friedan noted in their responses the recurrent dissatisfaction with where they found themselves. Why were so many American women of her time and class unhappy? In The Femi...show more
The Women's Room
Marilyn French
Such a good book! Opened my eyes to the constraints in society for women, and also for men
A Question of Choice
Sarah Weddington
Biographical, historical account with so much information that I didn't know about a critical turning point in US reproductive history