by Elizabeth Long
University of Chicago Press, 2003
Paper: 978-0-226-49262-9 | Cloth: 978-0-226-49261-2
Library of Congress Classification LC6651.L65 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 028.90973

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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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