The Women's Room
$38.15
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2007
Summary
The Women’s Room: A Feminist Awakening
A landmark in feminist literature, The Women’s Room is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with profound resonance today, this is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted blindly and revered so completely.
‘Today’s “desperate housewives” eat your heart out! This is the original and still the best, a page-turner that makes you think. Essential…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860492822 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1860492827 |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
| Author: | Marilyn French |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2007 |
| Weight: | 430g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 46mm |
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Critics Review
‘They said this book would change lives - and it certainly changed mine.’ Jenni Murray ‘The kind of book that changes lives’ Fay Weldon ‘Reading The Women’s Room was an intense and wonderful experience. It is in my DNA’ Kirsty Wark.‘The Women’s Room took the lid off a seething mass of women’s frustrations, resentments and furies; it was an angry book about the victimisation of women, about the need to change things from top to bottom; it was a declaration of independence’ Observer
About The Author
Marilyn French
Marilyn French (1929 -) is regarded as one of the greatest living feminist writers. Her controversial and provocative first novel THE WOMEN’S ROOM, published in 1977, sold 20 million copies worldwide and quickly became a classic of the women’s movement. Marilyn French is also a literary critic, her articles and stories appearing in a wide range of journals and anthologies.
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