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Would we like a fiction Book Club?

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Unrulysun · 15/02/2011 13:00

So that we could do some feminist analysis of fiction I mean? I was thinking maybe some classics but possibly we all know that Rochester has to be emasculated before Jane blah blah and we'd prefer to do others?

Would anyone be up for it? Would it work? What would we read? Other questions I haven't thought of?

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FlamingoBingo · 15/02/2011 21:22

I just feel that deconstructing literature will be very good practice for deconstructing life! Grin

Rhadegunde · 15/02/2011 21:22

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AliceWorld · 15/02/2011 21:10

Another up for it but would rather women authors.

I recently decided to focus on women authors as there are too many books in the world so I may as well narrow it somehow, and how better.

Reading the thread though I'd say we have some people up for reading misogynistic books to deconstruct and some people up for feminist books too. Just an observation really.

swallowedAfly · 15/02/2011 21:05

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LadyBiscuit · 15/02/2011 21:03

I'm up for it but would prefer it if we concentrated on women authors please

ladyofthehouseoflove · 15/02/2011 21:02

Swallowedafly- I could never get into Hardy either. I have always found reading his novels a bit like wading through thick mud Grin

claig · 15/02/2011 21:00

Yes, I think it is because anyone can contribute to librivox by reading any out of copyright book. This reading is by a man from America.

swallowedAfly · 15/02/2011 20:57

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claig · 15/02/2011 20:49

If you haven't got time to read the classics, many of them can be listened to for free in audiobook format at librivox.org

Here is Villette
librivox.org/villette-by-charlotte-bronte/

Villette is the narrator, but unfortunately this version is read by a man. Still, it is free, so can't complain.

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Blackduck · 15/02/2011 20:41

Loved Mayor of Casterbridge (memories of A Levels...). Its looooooooooong, but The Woman in White has a lot to offer too...
I'd like to try some SciFi (Women on the Edge of Time?) as well.....blime I think we have several years worth here....

FannyLogan · 15/02/2011 20:38

Oooh Mayor of Casterbridge has some interesting stuff going on

HandDivedScallopsrgreat · 15/02/2011 20:36

L-shaped room was good! I read that as a teenager so only have a hazy recollection of it but I do remember enjoying it. I also read The Good Mother around the same time. Not sure what I'd make of that now - looking through feminist eyes!

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HandDivedScallopsrgreat · 15/02/2011 20:07

Noooo no Dickens Grin. Just taken me back to English Lit O'Level [shudders].

FlamingoBingo · 15/02/2011 19:55

Surely we need some modern stuff too, though. Considering we're all saying that we are still not equal, some good feminist critiques of contemporary literature would be good, I think. I mean, we all know Bill Sikes beating Nancy to death is the epitome of violence against women, but that was in Victorian times. I've noticed myself picking up on lots of misogyny and sexism in random novels I've been reading lately - would love to read them with a pencil and make notes and then tell everyone on here how 'good at feminism' I am becoming to be able to spot things! Grin

HoodedCrow · 15/02/2011 19:54

Did men read this fiction from Victorian times or was it purely for women to read? When it was written i mean.

And did that have any influence on how the writers wrote??

HerBeX · 15/02/2011 19:47

Wow Hardy is a good one for feminist analysis isn't he?

And Dickens was crap at women.

Which leads me to reluctantly conclude that we ought to have some Dickens

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