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  <title><![CDATA[The Women's Room]]></title>
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  <default_description>&quot;Couargeous...Honest...Powerful.&quot;&lt;br&gt;CHICAGO TRIBUNE&lt;br&gt;The classic feminist novel that awakened both women and men speaks to everyone about the deep feelings at the heart of love and relationships. A biting social commentary of an emotional world gone silently haywire, THE WOMEN'S ROOM is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted so blindly and revered so completely.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1977</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Women's Room (Virago Modern Classics)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Marilyn French]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In retrospect, I can say that, while &quot;The Women's Room&quot; wasn't always an enjoyable book, it was an important book, a narrative worthy of my time and attention in that it is a significant perspective of the life of the middle-class woman pre- and post- second wave feminism.  It is often dif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11739365">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What can I say? <em>The Women's Room</em> was a rollercoaster ride of a book. It's unapologetically depressing from the very start, almost too brazenly in-your-face till midway, where Mira's life starts seemingly (dare I say it) comforming (!) to stereotypical feminists of the 70s. Then suddenly, about 100 p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33793560">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 03 13:01:25 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of a circle of neighbors who for a period of months sometime in the seventies gathered nearly every afternoon to talk and have a drink before dispersing to prepare meals for families loaned me this book or recommended it - I think I went and bought my own copy to read.  I began it about 4:30 one...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5590592">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Mar 18 17:44:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[apparently my John Irving - Garp book experience did NOT cure me of my need to finish books i can't stand. because this was the other book i was trudging through at the same time, all 576 worthless pages that took up way too much of my time and left me with only a small grim satisfaction that at lea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49716448">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66339278">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Other than the coincidence how “toilet booth” let me see our local kasilyas as a bifurcation–an answer to my homework, Marilyn French made a catchy start here; otherwise, I won’t have checked out The Women’s Room for two weeks.  The main one she named Mira, a straight A’s student, highly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66339278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5841706">
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    <body><![CDATA[An important book for me (and for more than a few women I know).  The Women's Room is sort of Betty Friedan/The Feminine Mystique in novel form.  The depictions of the middle-class lives of women and mothers in the 1950s and early 1960s are compelling.  The stories of the women who moved in or into ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5841706">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73044013">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A feminist classic, no doubt, and one that I really enjoyed for about 3/4 of the way through. The last 1/4 of the book I barely skimmed so it technically should go into my &quot;tried but failed&quot; pile, though that's usually where I consign books that I can't even get past page 20 of. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73044013">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7383212">
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  <date_added>Sun Oct 07 10:40:13 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this in college and a few times after that. It really brought to life the concepts outlined in The Feminine Mystique. It illustrated the roots of the feminist movement, which were mostly based on women's discontent and emptiness about being limited to the role of wife and mother. The ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7383212">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5180455">
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    <body><![CDATA[not for the faint of heart, but an honest and compelling novel that chronicles the emotional and practical roots of the women's rights rights movement via the personal journey of the protagonist.  shows where we came from and how far we still have to go.  heartbreaking, but also empowering and enlig...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5180455">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12079">
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    <body><![CDATA[It had been a really shocking expreince for a girl of 16 in Tehran to read the story of a woman in the 60s who had almost the same situation the women today in Iran have.<br/>I had read a room of one's own &amp; so many other feminist (?) books by the time, but I can not say that they had that great ef...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12079">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17541984">
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was amazing and eye-opening when I read it in high school (college?) Young and idealistic and raised ina conservative home and all that.<br/><br/>Now it just smacks of a brand and era of feminism that I can't relate to anymore. ]]></body>
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    <review id="49509053">
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    <body><![CDATA[Of the decidedly feminist literature,I've read, including The Awakening, The Story of An Hour, Wifey and Fear of Flying, this is my favorite. Unlike The Awakening, where the protagonist has plenty of money, buys another house and appears to abandon her kids... The Women's Room seems to focus on a wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49509053">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74242869">
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    <body><![CDATA[The writing is this book wasn't anything special and the story was a bit like a soap opera, but it had a great impact on me and I think it would on any one who read it, especially women. This is considered one of the quintessential books of the feminist movement and I can see why. It made me think a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74242869">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When this book was current, late 1970's when I was just past college age, it seems every woman in my age group was carrying this book around.  Who am I to say, but it most likely informed the early feminist thinking of many young women.  Now that we all are solidly entrenched in middle age I though ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71595336">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4791503">
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    <body><![CDATA[Even as a teenager, I knew dreck when I saw it. Gaah!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was awesome.  I decided to read it since in skimming the first few pages of the book in the store that I could learn about the atmosphere for being a young married woman in the 1950's and 1960's which would give me insights into what my own mother went through.   The book was compelling an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64557257">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The narrator comes right out and says that this book doesn't have a plot (and the narrator's &quot;veiled identity&quot; is actually one of the failures in this book, as it feels rather gimmicky). But this book spends its 600 + pages zooming in on a few specific women's communities that serve to ill...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10296753">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's difficult to know what to say about this book. It took me a long time to read this, not because it's long or difficult, but because I could only read so much without needing a break from it. I was a little unsure what to expect when I started reading it, so the first third of the book went quic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6069312">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm FINALLY moving this book from the 'reading' to the 'read' category.<br/><br/>This book is so feminist I almost stopped reading it completely at several points. It makes me wonder about the author's past to write a story with so much 'man-anger'. I would absolutely recommend this to every woman...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2736944">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jun 18 02:05:36 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 18 03:22:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I learned from this book: <br/><br/>- I am about as privileged as is possible in terms of when and where I was born. <br/>- This fact isn't going to shield me from the more insidious forms of subordination that still permeate most things. <br/>- Generational patterns are really difficult to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60143341">more...</a>]]></body>
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