Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life

Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life
ISBN-10
0226492621
ISBN-13
9780226492629
Category
Education
Pages
254
Language
English
Published
2003-08-01
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Elizabeth Long

Description

Book clubs are everywhere these days. And women talk about the clubs they belong to with surprising emotion. But why are the clubs so important to them? And what do the women discuss when they meet? To answer questions like these, Elizabeth Long spent years observing and participating in women's book clubs and interviewing members from different discussion groups. Far from being an isolated activity, she finds reading for club members to be an active and social pursuit, a crucial way for women to reflect creatively on the meaning of their lives and their place in the social order.

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