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Reference Shelf
Recommended books and videos
 Fiction:
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights.
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening.
Eliot, George. Middlemarch.
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary.
Lawrence, D. H. Women in Love.
Mailer, Norman. Ancient Evenings.
McMillen, Terri. Waiting to Exhale.
Proust, Marcel. Remembrance of Things Past.
Stendhal, Red and Black.
Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Kerenina.
Updike, John. Brazil.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
Woolf, Virgina. Orlando.
 Non-fiction:
Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex.
Brownmiller, Susan. Femininity.
Eisler, Riane. The Chalice and the Blade.
Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel.
Freidan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique.
- - -. Beyond Gender.
French, Marilyn. The War against Women.
Gilligan, Carol. In a Different Voice.
Gordon, Susanne. Prisoners of Men's Dreams.
Greer, Germaine. The Female Eunuch.
Kaminer, Wendy. A Fearful Freedom.
Mason, Mary Ann. The Equality Trap.
Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae.
Stone, Merlin. When God was a Woman.
Tanner, Tony. Adultery in the Novel.
Tavris, Carol. The Mismeasure of Woman.
Walter, Natasha. The New Feminism.
| "Now it's not true that a woman always feigns the pants
and passions of love (When she clings to her partner's body and
moistens his lips with a long, sucking kiss). Sometimes she does
it from the heart . . . ."--Lucretius, On the Nature of Things,
IV, 1192-4. |
  Films
and Videos:
| Woman of the Year (1946) |
The Handmaid's Tale (1990) |
| Adam's Rib (1949) |
Thelma and Louise (1991) |
| Breathless (1959) |
Switch (1991) |
| The Taming of the Shrew (1967) |
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| Romeo and Juliet (1968) |
The Age of Innocence (1993) |
| Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) |
Much Ado about Nothing (1993) |
| A Doll's House (1973) |
Shadowlands (1993) |
| The Stepford Wives (1975) |
Sense and Sensibility (1995) |
| Tootsie (1982) |
First Knight (1995) |
| The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) |
Mighty Aphrodite (1996) |
| Mr. Mom (1984) |
Twelfth Night (1996) |
| Victor/Victoria (1986) |
That Old Feeling (1997) |
| Stealing Heaven (1988) |
Shakespeare in Love (1998) |
| A Question of Silence (1988) |
End of the Affair (1999) |
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