Thursday, June 16, 2016

Readalikes: If you enjoyed June's selection . . .

If you enjoyed My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem, then you might also like these films and books suggested by our discussion members:

About Steinem:
  • HBO documentary Gloria: In Her Own Words
  • PBS documentary MAKERS: Women Who Make America
  • The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem by Carolyn Heilbrun
Other titles
  • Ain't I a Woman speech by Sojourner Truth at the Women's Convention, Akron, OH, May 29, 1851
  • The Ladies of Seneca Falls: The Birth of the Women's Rights Movement by Miriam Gurko
  • Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States by Eleanor Flexner
  • When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins
  • Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
  • The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
  • by Jonathan Eig
  • In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker
  • We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
  • Bossypants by Tina Fey
  • Yes, Please by Amy Poehler
  • Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
  • The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

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