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[restless_jedi]

Thanks to something ms_hecubus said on facebook today, I find myself thinking about the books I recall reading in high school. She linked an article where a legislator in WV wants to make science fiction required reading. My first thought, honestly, was "but even science fiction doesn't have a strong reputation for good representations of women we should be

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[scorpionvoices]

...The only books on that list I can even tolerate are To Kill A Mockingbird, The Color Purple, and Pride and Prejudice. The rest make me understand why people burn books.

[restless_jedi]

You could tolerate The Color Purple? Really?

[scorpionvoices]

Well. Parts of it, I guess. Defs not the whole thing. The play is better, but still far from perfect.

[shakespearsgrl2]

You are making me want to write a thesis on why Wuthering Heights is actually a fairly early representation of feminist literature and why that both is and isn't a good thing. Possibly contrasting Wuthering Heights with Jane Eyre, and maybe both those works with the works of Jane Austen, and the differences in such a short time between female authors and the perception of how women behave and are allowed to behave . . .

[restless_jedi]

I would read the hell out of that. Even if it wasn't written by you. Hell, I'd love to see a number of people's takes on that topic, just to see what different people say.

[bluealoe]

I think teaching science fiction in schools would be awesome (I know we read Fahrenheit 451 in 9th grade, that's kinda sci-fi), though I agree it wouldn't necessarily solve the problem of good representation of women.

I absolutely hated The Scarlet Letter, though not because of Hester. I just couldn't stand Dimsdale. What an idiot...I kept calling him Dimwit when we talked about the book in class.

My mom had to ground me from books, too. Whenever she sent me to my room, I'd end up reading for hours, so eventually she had to send me to a room without books.

Anyway, about woman-centric books, I honestly don't remember any that I read in high school, other than The Scarlet Letter. I know I read Jane Eyre in seventh grade, but that was on my own. I read more woman-focused stories in college, but I don't remember any titles off the top of my head. Interesting...

[restless_jedi]

I wanted to like Dimmesdale. I think I could have liked him if he was not so weak-willed.