The Women's Room by Marilyn French
The twenty-one-million copy bestselling novel and provocative feminist classic that changed the world when it was first published in 1977"With The Women's Room, Marilyn French joined Simone de Beauvoir, Ralph Ellison, and that very small group of writers whose words spark a movement." --Gloria Steinem
In the 1950s, many American women left education and professional advancement behind in order to marry, only to find themselves adrift and unable to support themselves after divorcing their husbands twenty years later. Some became destitute; a few went insane. But many went back to school in the heyday of the Women's Liberation movement, and were swept up in the promise of equality for both sexes.
The Women's Room tells the story of one such woman: a suburban 1950s housewife named Mira who divorces her loathsome husband and returns to graduate school at Harvard. Loosely based on Marilyn French's own life, the story of Mira and her friends offers wry, piercing insight into the inner lives of a generation of American women. A powerful indictment of the patriarchal social norms of the time, it caused an uproar when it was first published in 1977, changing the course of the feminist movement forever. Today, it remains timely and eerily relevant--a courageous novel infused with revolutionary fervor that examines the world of hopeful believers looking for new truths.
Marilyn French is a pioneering feminist thinker who has published various works of literary critique, history, memoir, and fiction. For millions of readers, her bestselling classic, The Women's Room, encapsulated the themes that sparked the women's movement. She just released the novel In the Name of Friendship as well as a four-volume women's history series titled From Eve to Dawn.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143114505 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143114506 |
| Title | The Women's Room |
| Author | Marilyn French |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2009-05-27 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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