Pedant’s Delight

Posted by Cila Warncke

I’m not sure which is sadder: that I love poring over lists of commonly confused English words or that I am happy to publically admit I do so. Both will undoubtedly come to haunt me.

The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die. — Zooey JD Salinger

Essential Feminist Literature

Posted by Cila Warncke

In no particular merit-order, 10 books by women that have changed the way I think.

1. The Female Eunuch – Germain Greer

2. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecroft

3. A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf

4. How To Suppress Women’s Writing – Joanna Russ

5. The Beauty Myth – Naomi Wolf

6. Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion

7. The Face of War – Martha Gellhorn

8. Backlash – Susan Faludi

9. The Second Sex – Simone De Beauvoir

10. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions – Gloria Steinem