Women's Month Reads
In honor of Women’s History Month, I thought I’d share some books I’ve read recently written by women about women and, mostly, for women.
When Women Were Birds: Fifty Four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
A classic from 1929 when women were allowed even less than
we are today and yet the concepts still hold true. Woolf talks about fiction
and writing and how it relates to women in what feels like a long string of consciousness
thought making this already short read go by even faster. There’s almost certainly
an analysis on the past and the relationship fiction and poetry had with women,
the past, as always, still influencing our present.
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by
Soraya Chemaly
If there is ever a book that factually notates the woman
condition, it is this one. She brings to light many of the harsh realities of
being a woman that most of us simply carry around in our subconscious and lays
it out for the world to see and understand. There is a safe space in here to
feel the anger we so rightfully deserve to feel and brings us closer together.
Bonus:
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed
for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez
This is sitting on my shelf as my next read but I have heard
many great things about this book as well. I wanted to include it since I will
be reading it soon.
Real Self Care: A
Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness by Pooja Lakshmin, MD
A fantastic book detailing the woman condition as it relates
to self-care and mental health. Dr. Pooja Lakshmin presents ways to redefine what
self-care is in a world where the goal is often more to make money than deal with
the real matters of mental health, and lays out steps to achieve it.
These are just a few of the books that I found were fitting
for this month and I am sure there are countless others that I would love to
hear about from you guys! Thanks for reading!
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