Female books

In a celebration of the brilliant female authors of the past, we’ve collated a list of our top ten classic feminist novels.

Part 2 of my Women's Day book recs is here!📚 these book recs aren’t exact one-to-one matches, but I picked them based on different aspects of each character's vibe, energy, or journey. Whether it's their wit, resilience, unhinged chaos, or sheer determination, these books get it. If you loved these iconic women on screen, you *need* to meet these unforgettable female leads in books. Also, a huge thank you to my broadcast channel members for some of these amazing recs! You all have the…

What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire - Kindle edition by Bergner, Daniel. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire.

She Came To Stay (or, in the original French, L'Invitée) was Simone de Beauvoir's first novel, published in 1943, a fictional account of her and Jean-Paul Sartre's relationship with Olga Kosakievicz (to whom the book is dedicated). This will hardly come as a shock, but it turns out de Beauvoir had some hard feelings... #Books #Feminist #SimoneDeBeauvoir #Reading #BookReview #BooksInTranslation #French #BooksToRead #Romance #ClassicBooks

Mary Wilson Carpenter, "Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me": The Consumable Female Body in Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market", Victorian Poetry, Vol. 29, No. 4, Contemporary Critics Look at Victorian Poetry (Winter, 1991), pp. 415-434

Help close the workplace gender gap and make your entrepreneurial game stronger with these 12 career books for women to read in 2016!

“this IS my bookshelf”

Lady Killers by Tori Telfer “Even grandmothers get in on the serial killing game! Tori Telfer writes about female murderers as if they’re bedtime stories, quick and irresistable.” - McKenzie W.

Jane Draycott reclaims the life story of Fulvia, one of the most powerful women of the late Roman Republic “Light and thorough, wide-reaching and focused...

feeling overwhelmed by what books to read? here is a list of a few short stories you should read. often I find myself wanting to read a short stand-alone book instead of a brand new series. stand-alone books allow you to finish the story without the hassle of waiting for the next release. do you prefer book series or stand-alone books? 1. HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES BY CARMEN MARIA MACHADO 2. SOMEONE WHO WILL LOVE YOU IN ALL YOUR DAMAGED GLORY BY RAPHAEL BOB-WAKSBERG 3. THING WE DO NOT TE...

Happy International Women’s Day I don’t often talk about my love of nonfiction books on her but here are some of my favourite feminist nonfiction literature I’ve read. I appreciate that some of these books are more fiction than nonfiction but I am hoping you’ll forgive me as I think they live really well together. I also have 4 more on my tbr.. have you read any of these? Or you have any recommendations?

'A rich and intimate examination of female desire, Maxine's book is full of wisdom and insight. I cannot recommend it enough' Julia SamuelAfter thirty years of research, Sigmund Freud still felt the great unanswered question was: 'What does a woman want?' Fifteen years into her own journey as a psychotherapist, Maxine Mei-Fung Chung believes her collaboration with her patients holds the answers. Through the profound and moving stories of seven very different women, Maxine Mei-Fung Chung…

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8 books that have inspired iconic female authors