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    _In A Different Voice_ by Carol Gilligan.  Will find publisher's
    info.
    
    Lee

    
    
    I just finished writing a paper for my psychology class using this
    book as reference.  It's very interesting, gave a lot of insight
    to issues and problems women go though and why.  It's called:
    
    The Type E* Woman (How to Overcome the Stress of Being *Everything,
    to Everybody) by Harriet B. Braiker, Ph.D. - 
    
    NAL PENGUIN INC., 1633 Broadway, New York, New York, 10019.  
    
    If you have a problem getting it, let me know if I can help.
    
    LOR
    
    
    
    

Here's a list of classic feminist works that would probably appear on 
any women's studies reading list.  The first, _The Second Sex_, 
if one of the first great works of the modern feminist movement.  It was 
originally written in French, so you would probably have an easy time 
obtaining it in its original language where you are.  The only 
publication information I have is for an English translation.

Simone de Beauvoir, _The Second Sex_, translation by H.M. Parshley, 
New York, Vintage, 1974

Susan Brownmiller, _Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape_,
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1975

Elizabeth Gould Davis, _The First Sex_,
New York, G.P. Putnam, 1971

Kate Millet, _Sexual Politics_,
Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1970

Robin Morgan, editor, _Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings 
from The Women's Liberation Movement_
New York, Random House, 1970

The following is a list of books of similiar stature and more recent 
vintage that I have considered particularly significant.  I've included
a brief description and/or subtitle from the book to add more
descriptive information (since these were all sitting on my bookshelf 
when I made the list!)

Mary Daly, _Gyn/Ecology_
Beacon Press, Boston, 1978
["The Meta-Ethics of Radical Feminism".  This is basically a
philosophical work and can be tough reading for some, but it is 
absolutely worth it.]

Carol Gilligan, _In a Different Voice_,
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982
[One of the first books to propose a psychological theory of women's
development.]

Gerda Lerner, _The Creation of Patriarchy_,
Oxford University Press, NY, Oxford, 1986
[This is a fairly serious historical work, but quite readable.  Since I
believe an understanding of history and the development of patriarchy is
crucial to understanding the current position of women, I very highly
recommend this.] 

Anne Wilson Schaef, _Women's Reality_,
Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1981, 1985
["An Emerging Female System in a White Male Society".  A very good look 
at why women and men seem to see the world so differently.  Ought to be 
part of any "Valuing Differences" program.]

Merlin Stone, _When God Was A Woman_,
Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, NY and London, 1976
[A very good introduction to the early goddess religions, and important 
in understanding the role of religion in the status of women.]

I tried to keep the list fairly short.  There are lots of contemporary 
books about various aspects of women's psychology, like "Women Who Love 
Too Much" and "Women and Self-Esteem".  I haven't listed anything of 
that type of thing here, which doesn't mean they couldn't be meaningful 
to you.  The books listed are general works that I would consider a basis
for understanding feminism in general.

	"A PASSION FOR FRIENDS" - Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection

			by Janice G. Raymond  1986

			Beacon Press 
			25 Beacon Street
			Boston, MA 02108


"An unsentimental, playful yet sobering look at female friendship through
the ages....A brave volume, ambitious in scope." - New York Times Book Review


I am halfway through this volume and find it quite interesting.....Janice
is an assistant Professor of Women's Studies at UMASS/Amherst.

justme....jacqui
					

    There are no finer books available on the subject than those written
    by Simone De Bouvoir.  The best of her writings is "The Second Sex",
    but I would recommend reading all of her non-fiction writings for
    the ultimate feminist (without anger) perspective.
    
    Also,  Germain Greer.  "The Female Eunuch".
           Betty Friedan.  "The Feminine Mystique"
    	   Gloria Steinham "Marilyn Monroe"
           Virginia Woolfe "A Room of One's Own"
    
    

    i dont know if this one counts...
    i am just finishing "the weaker vessel"
    by anatonia fraser.
    
    

You do not need to write to individual publishers to obtain these books. 
All are probably in stock at our Boston-area woman's bookstore, although
I do not know if they have a mail-order catalogue:

	New Words
	186 Hampshire St.
	Cambridge, MA 02139
	(617) 876-5310

A feminist bookstore that claims to "mail anywhere" and does offer a
mail-order catalogue in return for the price of the postage is

	Amazon Bookstore
	1612 Harmon Place
	Minneapolis, MN 55403
	(612) 378-6460

	

    Re: .6
    
    Yes, I've read it.  Very interesting, but she's not much of an in-depth
    historian.  It looks at women in England between the reigns of Queen
    Bess and Queen Anne - mostly upper-class women, of course, because
    there's more data available.  There are two basic views of women:
    embodiment of gentle virtues and embodiment of earthy temptations.
    During the period she examines, the prevailing attitude went from
    one end of the pendulum swing to the other.

    
    I see that _Creation of Patriarchy_ and Jan Raymond's _A Passion for
    Friends_ have been recommended.  I'd like to add _The Great Cosmic
    Mother:Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth_ by Monica Sjoo and
    Barbara Mor. (Harper and Row, 1987.)
    
    am

    Over the weekend I bought _A_Woman_in_Residence_ by Michelle
    Harrison, which I found at Brentano's, remaindered for $1.99.
    
    It's based on the journal she kept when she went left practicing
    medicine to take a part-time (70 hours a week) residency in
    Obstetrics and Gynecology.  This book gives new breadth and
    depth to the meaning of the term "iatrogenic".
    
    							Ann B.

    
    
    Hi,
    
    Thanks for all the great suggestions, keep em coming.  I went 
    to England last week and bought some of the books I had read
    about in the notes files.  Some of the books I bought were
    Gyn/ecology, Take back the night, Female Eneuch (sp?), and
    the new Hite report.  I also bought some others but I can't
    bring the titles to mind right now.
    
    I was happy to see that every bookstore there had a fairly
    large women's study section.  Now if I can convince my boss
    to send me to England more often.
    
    					Cheers,
    
    						Adele