These are some of the books I read during last half a century or so, and some of the thoughts, questions, reactions and insights, emotions - and so forth -, evoked on reading them, either then or later sometime during the interim years and decades, or even thinking over now, that are summed up here while trying to record my impressions about what I read.
Friday, October 17, 2008
The Second Sex; by Simone de. Beauvoir
One of the most intelligent women that preceded the present generation by more than a few decades, perceived and wrote fearlessly about the gender politics against women, dealt with pretty much the way occupied people were in the colonial era.