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Book club help please - feminist /female perspective books

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funnypeculiar · 17/05/2007 11:54

Hi all
I (foolishly) suggested at our last book club that we should do a 'feminist' book next (we've been doing too many boys' books, imho!) .... and now I have to suggest one .... It needs to be fairly readable/not too long!!

My starters for 10 were
The Female Eunach (but think lots of people have read it)
Angela Carter - possibly Nights at the Circus
The Women's Room (but very long, and dull in the second half)
Handmaid's Tale - but we've done quite a lot of sci-fi recently

Any other ideas??

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DimpledThighs · 23/05/2007 01:03

what did you choose?

suzywong · 23/05/2007 04:26

Paradise by Toni Morrison if you can stomach it
Presents the female paradigm in polarasation to the male one, brutally but powerfully.

eidsvold · 23/05/2007 04:57

princess, daughters of arabia, desert royal - are a series by Jean Sasson - insider's glimpse at the life of Saudi princess and women's treatment in Arabia

Mayada: daughter of Iraq by Jean Sasson.

very intersting reads about life in the middle east from a woman's perspective

wild swans

this one

manitz those ones by sasson are an 'easy' read.

this one will inspire discussion for sure

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