March - a month when women especially feel women. March 8, when they are filled with compliments and flowers, surround the care and caress ... And all the next days, when you remember in the contrast and you feel sharp, as the life of the Russian woman is actually arranged.
Gradually, the novelty of perception will be shred, and all annoying, unfair and simply heavy will again become ordinary. In the meantime, it did not happen, it's time to read the books, laying on the shelves, everything in March is on your soul.
"Spine Vasilisa, or I am alone," Ekaterina Mikhailova
The second part of the name scares many: it looks like a brochure from the series "How to become an ideal bitch and buy a lot of dresses." And yet, you open this book and you will not be disappointed.
No anthropological or philosophical system analysis of the history and position of the woman. No complex designs and terms, at the form of which there is a feeling that a lecture is read, after which the exam will be.
The book speaks simple words. About you. About your mom. Grandmother. Women around. About everything that was working - and what, when you suddenly feel, I wanted to discuss.
Hunger. War. Violence for external well-being in a peaceful satiety. Rape and their attempts. Abortions. Desired and dead children. Divorces of parents. All the time the rebellious, leaving due to control of the body: then he has a monthly, then migraine, then overweight, then acne ... Dad dreamed of a boy. Mom criticized all the time.
It will not be scary. Your hand all the time reading is holding a friendly hand. You can cope with it - with any heavy memories or discovery.
Skeletons in the cabinet, poisoning generations by generation. The pain that you hold inside yourself as an eternal injection, instead of cleaning the wound and give her to delay.
They say no longer a woman regretted that he read this book. And many after her finally found the inner point of support.
Due to the fact that everyone was in hell, he never ceases to be hell.
"Myth of beauty. Stereotypes against women ", Naomi Wulf
I want to be beautiful. Well-groomed, fashionable or at least stylish. Thick! But you are not Barbie, you do not have time and make money it becomes, and terribly infuriates that men are surprised and assimilated for you for a living woman, and not an exconated model. All, you know about the price of this artificial beauty ... And still you can not at least not join this race for Herrow, elegance and eternal positive on the face.
Familiar?
The American writer will tell you what is happening with you, the brick behind the brick will disassemble the tower of the great myth about beauty, expose his essence, making the cover of the town and marketing of charm.
It is unlikely that you will immediately quit shoes and use cosmetics, but you will understand very, very much.
Woman wins when he allows himself and other women there is something and when you want to be sexy, aging, wearing a working overalls, to the blasting, a dress from Balenciaga, a manot from a second-hand store or military boots; dress up or walk almost bare; To do everything that pleases, following its own ideas about aesthetics or ignoring them. Woman wins when she feels that the fact that every woman does with her body - without violence and coercion, is her personal matter.
"Second Paul", Simon de Bovwar
The book of one of the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century in general and the female movement in particular requires the opportunity to read, thinking in silence and rest. In 1949, she became something like a philosophical bomb ... and it can become the same for you in 2017.
An overview of popular theories around women and controversy with them is replaced by examining social structures around a woman and femininity. The philosophical aspects of the relationship of the Company, which women are forced to share, for women's sexuality, physicality, marriage and motherhood may first make a look at their entire lives. And, even if it does not pull (for now), agree with the author, its theses and conclusions, reviews of the presentation of women with famous writers and philosophers will undoubtedly be interesting.
First of all, the idea of possessing can not be translated positively; In fact, no one ever had anything and no one; Therefore, people try to implement it negatively; The surest way to insist that some property belongs to me is to prevent others to use it.
"Mystery of femininity", Betty Freidan
Being an ideal mom and wife, always beautiful, always positive, all successful, with everything clerk. If you do not want it, it should still. If you do not think that I should, then you want anyway.
What cute women in American fifties magazines! Always at the parade, always smile, and the house- Full bowl. The picture in which the American women of depression and alcoholism tried to fit the American depressions and alcoholism, now it looms in front of the nose as a considerable middle-class Russian woman with a practically mandatory goal.
Simply. Be it all. Perfect.
I will talk about it with someone, and you know that no one forces you.
Announcing that you will not participate in this race, and you will find out what should.
A book written by an American for the Americans will be unexpectedly relevant for you today and, like others of this list, will help a lot, finally notice and understand.
Being all the time in front of children - does not mean to be useful to them; Sometimes enough in a second to make something very important for them.
