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My DH has expressed an interest in reading a book by a woman

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ringle · 18/11/2017 16:12

He is an academic and very well and widely read. Save that he has never read a book by a woman.

He likes classic texts basically. Stuff that would make him better read.

Where to start? Could you help me make a shortlist?

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ringle · 18/11/2017 23:21

"How has he managed that?"

Being born more than 40 years ago in a society where men were big on guarding their masculinity?
Trust me, I am asking the question too.

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ringle · 18/11/2017 23:19

AlternativeTentacle. Thank you. There are some emotions bubbling under in my conversations with him so having a third party list is genuinely useful.

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ringle · 18/11/2017 23:16

"Your DH is not well or widely read if he has never read a female author."

That's the subtext of our discussion on the topic......

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moonmaker · 18/11/2017 21:42

Please tell him not to trouble himself Hmm

TwitterQueen1 · 18/11/2017 21:34

What a very silly thread OP. If this is a true post your DH is not only ignorant but stupid too.

PhilODox · 18/11/2017 21:28

And, no, he is not widely read if the premise of your OP is true.

Rheged · 18/11/2017 21:28

Bollocks is he ‘well read’ if he’s never read a book by a female author. If he’s an academic I’m sure he must have come across papers/books written by women anyway. Or is it just fiction written by females that he’s avoided? He doesn’t sound nearly as clever as he thinks he is.

I’m not writing him a shortlist as I don’t believe in facilitating this kind of nonsense. If he wants to read a book by a female author then he can get on Google and do a bit of research.

PhilODox · 18/11/2017 21:27

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

The God of Small Things by Arundati Roy

DrinkFeckArseGirls · 18/11/2017 21:25

I really would like the OP to come nack and tell more about her educated DP.

SittingAround1 · 18/11/2017 21:22

I hope he's not an academic in literature or anything to do with the arts.

Anyway he should start with The Tiger Who Came To Tea.

tiptopteepe · 18/11/2017 21:21

seriously though he never read pride and prejudice or to kill a mockingbird at school??

other faves of mine by women
'the Yellow Wallpaper' Charlotte Perkins Gilman
'My Cousin Rachel' Daphne Du Maurier
'The Wide Sargasso Sea' Jean Rhys
'Nightwood' Djuna Barnes
'The Hearing Trumpet' Leonora Carrington

tiptopteepe · 18/11/2017 21:16

Edith Wharton 'The House of Mirth' and 'Ethan Frome'

SpecialAgentDaleCooper · 18/11/2017 21:00

You're pulling our leg here aren't you?

Not quite sure why, but clearly you are

lottiegarbanzo · 18/11/2017 20:56

Ern, no he isn't.

CJCreggsGoldfish · 18/11/2017 20:56

Right...let's start at the very beginning then! How about The Gruffalo?!!!

Seriously OP, how the hell does someone 'well read' get to adulthood without reading a book by a woman. But, more importantly, I'd want to know why he exhibited such sexism when choosing a book.

I'm currently reading Maya Angelou 'I know why the cage bird sings' and thoroughly recommend it.

IfyouseeRitaMoreno · 18/11/2017 20:51

God his life must have been dull so far.

I mean how can you seriously get through life without reading a single book by a woman?

KatherinaMinola · 18/11/2017 20:48

I’m guessing he read books by women but just assumed they were written by men.

This. Or your post is made up. It's not possible to become an academic without ever having read a book by a woman.

mousemoose · 18/11/2017 20:39

Echo that he is not a great academic, nor well read, nor widely read if he has only read work by male authors.

ProseccoPoppy · 18/11/2017 20:33

Op - maybe your DH needs this link - bfy.tw/F6SX

(Seriously - he is joking isn’t he?)

Mammysin · 18/11/2017 20:21

Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Michelle Magorian's "Goodnight Mr Tom" Harper Lee " To Kill a Mockingbird" definitely Mary Wollstonecraft's " A Vindication of the Rights of Woman". Poor you and what intellectual poverty your partner has 🤔

Jerseysilkvelour · 18/11/2017 20:11

Deffo tell him to start with Enid Blyton.

CertainHalfDesertedStreets · 18/11/2017 20:08

Maybe he's an academic as in 'it's academic really'?

buckeejit · 18/11/2017 20:05

Megalolz. What sort of an academic is he?!

FinallyHere · 18/11/2017 20:01

George Elliot? Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Sigh.

BakedBeans47 · 18/11/2017 19:24

Jeez really?!

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