Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the history of women in writing, smoothly comparing the architecture of sentences by the likes of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, all the while lampooning the chauvinistic state of university education in the England of her day. Woolf pretty much invented modern feminist criticism.
Three different parts of the world, but all of them dangerous, lonely places. Three different women, but all of them adventurous and determined.Robyn Davidson walked nearly 3,000 kilometres across the Australian desert -- with a dog and four camels.Arlene Blum led a team of ten women to the top of Annapurna -- one of the highest mountains in the world. Only eight came down again.Naomi James sailed around the world alone, on a journey lasting more than 250 days.
Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and 'yummy mummy' novels such as Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of popular women's fiction from 1945 to the present. Examining key trends in popular writing for women in each decade, Women's Fiction offers case study readings of major British and American writers. Through these readings, the book explores how popular texts often neglected by feminist literary criticism have charted the shifting demands, aspirations and expectations of women in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Whether you start with a few dollars a week, a small savings account, or a huge inheritance, you can finish rich by putting your money where your values are and taking Bach's straightforward advice for the 21st-century woman.
David Bach's Smart Women Finish Rich is a homage to the financial wisdom of his grandmother; it's also an excellent foundation for women who are starting to get their financial lives in order. Bach's approach to money management is rooted in years of investment seminars for women and his work as senior vice president of investments at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. During that time he recognized that "people rarely know what is truly driving them emotionally when it comes to money."
