Hi everyone – Iris asked me to apologise on her behalf for not having been able to post these sooner, but life got unexpectedly busy for her. But it’s never too late, right? Here are some possible di...
I cannot wait to read and discuss Jane Eyre with all of you. I know this is a book that many love, but also one that some people have major issues with. Personally, I fall into the former category. I...
In May The Year of Feminist Classics group will be reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Jodie, as my co-host, and I, believe that reading these books together wil...
Cover via Amazon Welcome to (a belated, sorry about that) April, everyone! Lets talk about one of my favorite books of all time! Why Whipping Girl? Well, to put it succinctly, I recommended that Whip...
Here we are at the end of March (well, close enough), and it’s time to wrap up our reading of the Book of the City of Ladies. I hope you all enjoyed it or at least got something out of it. I ...
I hope you’ve all been able to find copies of the book and are enjoying it. I have been having a great time with Christine! Her book is so medieval in its logic and sort-of-allegory, and so d...
I’ve so been looking forward to this book! I’ve never done a group discussion blog or anything before, though, so I hope you’ll forgive me for being a newbie. Christine de Pizan (1...
If you’ve missed the discussion on this title so far, do check out the introduction and discussion posts to see what participants have been saying. Though work has been busy and I’ve not ...
I’m not sure about anyone else but I’ve been slowly working my way through the book and while finding it a bit repetitive in parts, am still finding it interesting. It’s not quite ...
Each time I leave one of these encounters, I want to have in my hand a little book so that I can say, read this book, and it will tell you what feminism is, what the movement is about. I want to be h...
As Iris mentioned in our previous post, we would like to extent the Year of Feminist Classics into 2012. However, the chaos of the holiday season and several life events prevented us from getting org...
We wanted to thank all of you for participating in the Year of Feminist Classics project in 2011. We know we have not been the greatest hosts, at least 3 out of 4 hosts experienced some difficulties ...
Happy holidays to all who celebrate them, and a lovely few weeks to all who don’t! I hope you’ve been able to take some time off for yourselves and your loved ones, and maybe even been ab...
I am excited to be hosting discussions about Sister Outsider this month, as I’ve been looking forward to this one all year! I know that many of us will be very busy leading up to the winter hol...
Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble was first published in 1990, and is now regarded as not only a key text for anyone interested in feminist theory, but also as one of the founding texts of queer theory....
I am very sorry about being such a lousy host this past month, or rather, disappearing completely. Life has been crazy and I cannot give you any more excuses than that. Below you will find a small in...
Title: The Beauty Myth Author: Wolf, Naomi Length: Around 350 pages Genre: Non-Fiction Original Published In: 1991 It’s getting nearer to the end of the year and everyone is getting busier and ...
Written in 1991, The Beauty Myth explores the issue of the ideal of a perfect beauty to which women are subjected and which women strive to achieve. Culture and society push certain images at women w...
Hello everyone! Is anyone besides me still stubbornly working through The Second Sex? I’ve got about 200 pages left, myself. For those of you who also read The Woman Warrior this month, here ar...
This month we’re going to be reading The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston in addition to working our way through the rest of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. I hope that some of you, ...
We thought that to celebrate the half year mark we would talk a bit more about ourselves and about what feminism is to us – expect to see a post where we answer a question for the next four Fri...
It is quite a prospect, isn’t it? This 770 page book (in the edition I use). I have to say I am very intimidated by it. But the prospect of reading and discussing it together is also very excit...
At this, the half-year mark, we want to send a huge THANK YOU out to all participants and readers! We thought that to celebrate this milestone we would talk a bit more about ourselves and about what ...
Title: God Dies by the Nile Author: Saadawi, Nawal El Length: Varies per edition, approximately 175 pages Genre: Fiction Original Published In: 1974 I have to start by saying what a fantastic time I&...
I apologize for the lack of structure in my post today, but I had a number of different items that I wanted to discuss with you. 1. For anyone who is interested, Lauren who blogs at Underneath a Book...
I finished reading this book on Saturday and wow, there is so much to discuss in it. I thought I’d start a post here with a few general questions for discussion either in the comments, via emai...
Many of the ‘standard’ feminist classics that we can name off the top of our head when asked to are written by women from Europe or North America. As part of this project it was pointed o...
Hi all, it’s Emily from Evening All Afternoon. A big thanks to this month’s host Ana and the rest of the fine ladies here at Year of Feminist Classics for letting me guest-post! I love th...
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