A Bookshelf of Our Own: Works that Changed Women's LivesCitadel Press, 2006 - 302 pagine Fifty fiction and non-fiction classics that have defined and shaped our literary history--from the Middle Ages to the present day, spanning from Jane Eyre to Scarlett O'Hara, Hester Prynne to Lily Bart, Anne Frank to Maxine Hong Kingston. Part reference book, part popular culture guide, A Bookshelf of Our Own provides thoughtful analysis of each book, placing it within its historical context and tracing the life and influences of its author; and comprises an invaluable resource for libraries and reading groups, an essential primer for any literary enthusiast, and a provocative look at our past and present. |
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The Princess of Clèves by Madame de La Fayette | 10 |
Emma by Jane Austen | 24 |
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert | 41 |
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | 57 |
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 73 |
My Ántonia by Willa Cather | 90 |
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell | 107 |
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers | 113 |
An Anthology of Writings from | 180 |
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer | 186 |
A Documentary History | 192 |
The Treatment of Women | 199 |
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong | 206 |
Against Our Will by Susan Brownmiller | 212 |
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston | 222 |
Of Woman Born by Adrienne Rich | 229 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston | 121 |
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank | 127 |
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir | 133 |
The Womens Rights Movement | 139 |
The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley | 145 |
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing | 151 |
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan | 157 |
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys | 168 |
Sexual Politics by Kate Millett | 174 |
Silences by Tillie Olsen | 240 |
Women Race Class by Angela Davis | 246 |
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende | 252 |
Beloved by Toni Morrison | 258 |
The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick | 263 |
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf | 274 |
The Bitch in the House compiled and edited | 285 |
Select Bibliography | 292 |
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