Ep 10: "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?"

Dr. Gina Barreca is a women's humorist, author, writer, speaker and professor at UConn. Her latest book, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?: Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times" is a collection of fun, feminist-infused essays. The feminist humor maven stopped by "Just the Right Book" right before the Women's Marches to chat with Roxanne about the women empowerment books that we all need to read.        
Gina's site: http://ginabarreca.com/
Books in this episode:
"If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times  By Gina Barreca
The Second Sex  By Simone De Beauvoir
The Golden Notebook  By Doris Lessing
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo  By Mary Douglas
How Institutions Think  By Mary Douglas
The Powers of the Weak  By Elizabeth Janeway
We Should All Be Feminists  By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman  By Robert K. Massie
Cleopatra: A Life  By Stacy Schiff
Personal History  By Katharine Graham
She  By H. Rider Haggard
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind  By Scott Stossel
Pretty Is  By Maggie Mitchell
In Praise of Folly  By Desiderius Erasmus
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Dr. Gina Barreca is a women's humorist, author, writer, speaker and professor at UConn. Her latest book, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?: Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times" is a collection of fun, feminist-infused essays. The feminist humor maven stopped by "Just the Right Book" right before the Women's Marches to chat with Roxanne about the women empowerment books that we all need to read.        

Gina's site: http://ginabarreca.com/

Books in this episode:

"If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times  By Gina Barreca

The Second Sex  By Simone De Beauvoir

The Golden Notebook  By Doris Lessing

Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo  By Mary Douglas

How Institutions Think  By Mary Douglas

The Powers of the Weak  By Elizabeth Janeway

We Should All Be Feminists  By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman  By Robert K. Massie

Cleopatra: A Life  By Stacy Schiff

Personal History  By Katharine Graham

She  By H. Rider Haggard

My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind  By Scott Stossel

Pretty Is  By Maggie Mitchell

In Praise of Folly  By Desiderius Erasmus

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices