Reading women's worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing: a guide to six centuries of women writers imagining rooms of their own

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Reading Nafisi at the YMCA * I Have a Dream: Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own * Let's Talk: Conversation in Moderata Fonte's Worth of Women and Marjane Satrapi's Embroideries * Design for Living: Women's Communities in Margaret Cavendish's Convent of Pleasure and Mary Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies * Trouble in Paradise: Men in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland and Doris Lessing's Cleft * Buried Alive: Arcangela Tarabotti's Paternal Tyranny and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper * Brave New Worlds: Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale and Slavenka Drakulic's S. A Novel about the Balkans * Still Crazy after All These Years: Doris Lessing's To Room Nineteen and Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran