What Women Want

[Silverbirch]

Hi Sim,

 

Re Simone De Beavoir, imho, her ideas which she published in that book around 1960 (I think) are pretty much everyday views of women now I'd say, but created a sensation back then and appealed to every day French women. When I first read Germaine Greer when I was at school, I thought it was amazing. Then a couple of years ago, I read it (The Female Eunuch) again and thought, "Well, it seems like we always thought that way."

 

In The Second Sex, I recall that at least a large part of the book was her take on the most widely read writers of the time and her critiques on their depictions of women. I think that she said that Anais Nin was an apologist or D H Lawrence's sexist depictions - but then she does a big turn around saying how Lady Chatterley's Lover was one of the best books she had read. lurved, lurved, lurved it. I read some of her other books, but to me they were sort of grey - unlike Anais Nin's.

 

Your book sounds interesting.

[JonasWaingaro]

'The Second Sex' is a great book. I can't recommend it enough. She was a great thinker. I think even today there is a lot to learn from that book. It's still challenging to the everyday status quo. Great book.

[Silverbirch]

I'm sure you're right Jonas. I should read it again.

 

Speaking of people whose work got tongues moving, check this out. LMAO. It's a very short dvd of Josephine Baker dancing her in banana skirt in Paris, 1927. Very shocking for it's day.

 

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