Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady
Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady
Roxanne Coady
"If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?"
41 minutes Posted Jan 24, 2017 at 9:00 pm.
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Dr. Gina Barreca is a women's humorist, author, writer, speaker and professor at UConn. Her latest book, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?: Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times" is a collection of fun, feminist-infused essays. The feminist humor maven stopped by "Just the Right Book" right before the Women's Marches to chat with Roxanne about the women empowerment books that we all need to read.    
Gina's site: http://ginabarreca.com/
Books in this episode:
"If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times By Gina Barreca
The Second Sex By Simone De Beauvoir
The Golden Notebook By Doris Lessing
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo By Mary Douglas
How Institutions Think By Mary Douglas
The Powers of the Weak By Elizabeth Janeway
We Should All Be Feminists By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman By Robert K. Massie
Cleopatra: A Life By Stacy Schiff
Personal History By Katharine Graham
She By H. Rider Haggard
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind By Scott Stossel
Pretty Is By Maggie Mitchell
In Praise of Folly By Desiderius Erasmus