Why read Women of Ideas?

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Book by Spender, Dale

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1 author picked Women of Ideas as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Chris Wind

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Feminist theorist Dale Spender wrote, in Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them, “We need to know how women disappear….” Although she spoke of women who disappear from the historical record, all too many women seem to disappear from any sort of public life as soon as they leave high school: so many shine there, but once they graduate, they become invisible. What happens?

Marriage and kids is an inadequate answer because married-with-kids straight-A boys are visible. Everywhere. Even the straight-B boys are out there. So what happens?

This is what happens.

From Chris' list on what it's like being female in a sexist society.