Reading Women’s Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing

1. Reading Nafisi at the YMCA
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2. I Have a Dream: Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own

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3. We Need to Talk: Conversation in Moderata Fonte’s The Worth of Women and Marjane Satrapi’s Embroideries

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4. Design for Living: Women’s Communities in Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure and Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

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5. Paradise Lost: Men in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland and Doris Lessing’s The Cleft

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6. Hell Hath No Fury: Rage in Arcangela Tarabotti’s Paternal Tyranny and Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto

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7. Madwomen in the Attic: Madness and Suicide in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen”
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8. Brave New Worlds: Sexual Slavery in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Slavenka Drakuliċ’s S. A Novel about the Balkans

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9. Still Crazy after All These Years: Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran
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Nyckelord: Literature, Fiction, Feminism, British and Irish Literature, Gender Studies