Sunday, November 1, 2009

Women Unbound challenge

Women Unbound
November 1, 2009 to November 30, 2010

challenge hosted by
Aarti of Booklust


This is my acceptance post to be a Suffragette.

Being a Women Studies major, resistance against this challenge is futile.

Participants are encouraged to read nonfiction and fiction books related to the rather broad idea of ‘women’s studies.’

There are three levels you can choose as a reader (you can count books for other challenges as well):

Philogynist: read at least two books, including at least one nonfiction one.

Bluestocking: read at least five books, including at least two nonfiction ones.

Suffragette: read at least eight books, including at least three nonfiction ones.

Below is my tentative book list. It's a mix of YA, Japanese, art history and spirituality.

I will include review links on this page as posts are created. This list will inevitably increase in size. So you'll see extra goodies as time goes on.

As an added challenge to myself, I will also add movie-related review links here.

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YA fiction:

Sliding on the Edge by C. Lee McKenzie

Black and White by Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kitredge

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Japanese fiction:

Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino

Real World by Natsuo Kirino

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General fiction:

The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland

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My non-fiction list:

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon translated and edited by Ivan Morris

Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The First Buddhist Women by Susan Murcott

The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler

Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi
by Keith Christiansen and Judith W. Mann
with essays by leading scholars
catalogue published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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My movie list:

George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

George Eliot's Silas Marner

George Eliot's Adam Bede

George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot's Middlemarch

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Misc:

WOMEN UNBOUND Start of Challenge Meme - my thoughts


==end result==
with good intentions, however, challenge not completed

 
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