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"If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?"
"If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?"
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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Jan 25, 2017
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Podcast episode
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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 ErasmusLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Jan 25, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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