Reading Women : How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life (Paperback)

from readingthruthenight

Stephanie Staal, graduate from Barnard, anticipated a progressive career driven life. And was on her way, until she meets a man, falls in love, gets married, has a baby and leaves The City. (And speaking of The City, didn't we see that episode on SatC?) It is about this time that we meet her, as ...

from ironicqueery

Reading Women is half memoir and half women studies book. Stephanie Staal reaches a point in her life where she finds herself married and with a child, having given up a successful career, focusing on the family. She starts to wonder what happened to her feminist ideals and whether she could stil...

from ironicqueery

Reading Women is half memoir and half women studies book. Stephanie Staal reaches a point in her life where she finds herself married and with a child, having given up a successful career, focusing on the family. She starts to wonder what happened to her feminist ideals and whether she could stil...

from book58lover

Staal walks us through her personal life as a young mother and wife as she takes classes at Barnard in Feminist Literature. A real juxtaposition of the personal thoughts as a thinking young woman and as a mother. The discussions of the feminist texts and her thinking as a writer really have me wa...

from nancyewhite

Two of my favorite things in the world: feminism and books! I enjoyed this book in which a young mother in a troubled marriage re-visits the feminist texts of her undergraduate years by auditing a course at her alma mater. Stephanie Staal is at loose ends after the birth of her baby and finding h...