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The Matriarchal-Brotherhood: Sex and Labor in primitive society, Evelyn Reed (1954) [214] The Myth of Women's Inferiority, Evelyn Reed (1954) [215] The Feminist Movement in the Philippines 1905-1955: A Golden Book to commemorate The Golden Jubilee of the Feminist Movement in the Philippines, Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido (1955) [216]
In her book Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, bell hooks states her belief that all types of media, including writing and children's books, need to promote feminist ideals. She argues "Children's literature is one of the most crucial sites for feminist education for critical consciousness precisely because beliefs and identities ...
Revolution From Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Gloria Steinem (1992) "Talking Our Way In", Rachel Adler (1992) [410] The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Opposite Sex, or the Inferior Sex, Carol Tavris (1992) The War Against Women, Marilyn French (1992) "Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism", Maxine Hanks ...
The Feminine Mystique is a book by American author Betty Friedan, widely credited with sparking second-wave feminism in the United States. [2] First published by W. W. Norton on February 19, 1963, The Feminine Mystique became a bestseller, initially selling over a million copies.
The book has been translated and adapted by women's groups around the world and is available in 33 languages. [3] Sales for all the books exceed four million copies. [4] The New York Times has called the seminal book "America's best-selling book on all aspects of women's health" and a "feminist classic". [5]
Ruth B. Bottigheimer catalogued this and other disparities between the 1810 and 1812 versions of the Grimms' fairy tale collections in her book, Grimms' Bad Girls And Bold Boys: The Moral And Social Vision of the Tales. Of the "Rumplestiltskin" switch, she wrote, "although the motifs remain the same, motivations reverse, and the tale no longer ...
The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women in the present society as well as throughout all of history. Beauvoir researched and wrote the book in about 14 months between 1946 and 1949. [3]
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."