Williamsburg Regional Library

A bookshelf of our own, works that changed women's lives, Deborah G. Felder

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-295) and index

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A bookshelf of our own

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Deborah G. Felder

works that changed women's lives

The author selects and discusses the greatest books ever written by and about women--true classics that have defined and shaped women's experiences from the Middle Ages to the present day

The tale of Genji / by Murasaki Shikibu -- The book of the city of ladies / by Christine de Pisan -- The Princess of Clèves / by Madame de La Fayette -- A vindication of the rights of woman / by Mary Wollstonecraft -- Emma / by Jane Austen -- Jane Eyre / by Charlotte Brontë -- The scarlet letter / by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Madame Bovary / by Gustave Flaubert -- Little women / by Louisa May Alcott -- Middlemarch / by George Eliot -- Anna Karenina / by Leo Tolstoy -- A doll's house / by Henrik Ibsen -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles / by Thomas Hardy -- The yellow wallpaper / by Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The awakening / by Kate Chopin -- The house of mirth / by Edith Wharton -- My Antonia / by Willa Cather -- Chéri / by Colette -- A room on one's own / by Virginia Woolf -- Gone with the wind / by Margaret Mitchell -- Gaudy night / by Dorothy L. Sayers -- Their eyes were watching God / by Zora Neale Huston -- The diary of a young girl / by Anne Frank -- The second sex / by Simone de Beauvoir -- Century of struggle : the women's rights movement in the United States / by Eleanor Flexner -- The little disturbances of man / by Grace Paley -- The golden notebook / by Doris Lessing -- The feminine mystique / by Betty Friedan -- The bell jar / by Sylvia Plath -- Wide sargasso sea / by Jean Rhys -- Sexual politics / by Kate Millett -- Sisterhood is powerful : an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement / compiled and edited by Robin Morgan -- The female eunuch / by Germaine Greer -- Black women in white America : a documentary history / compiled and edited by Gerda Lerner -- From reverence to rape : the treatment of women in the movies / by Molly Haskell -- Fear of flying / by Erica Jong -- Against our will / by Susan Brownmiller -- Looking for Mr. Goodbar / by Judith Rossner -- The woman warrior / by Maxine Hong Kingston -- Of woman born / by Adrienne Rich -- The women's room / by Marilyn French -- Silences / by Tillie Olsen -- Women, race and class / by Angela Davis -- The house of the spirits / by Isabel Allende -- Beloved / by Toni Morrison -- The shawl / by Cynthia Ozick -- Backlash / by Susan Faludi -- The beauty myth / by Naomi Wolf -- Bridget Jones's diary / by Helen Fielding -- The bitch in the house / compiled and edited by Cathi Hanauer

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