YVONNE FAIR TESSLER - Braille Institute of America

follows her through her teaching career, falling in love, and finally
marriage. This work is also about the motion picture created from her
story.
POETRY
Earth, Air, Fire and Water: Poems
RC 34801
A collection of more than 125 poems of discovery by eighty-one
contemporary poets, including LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka,) Sylvia
Plath, e.e. cummings, Vachel Lindsay, and William Carlos Williams.
WOMEN'S PSYCHOLOGY
BROWNMILLER, SUSAN
Femininity
RC 20231
Examines the mythology and repercussions of certain feminine ideals
in the hopes that one day they will "no longer be used to perpetuate he
inequality between the sexes." In her discussion of the female pursuit
of beauty and femininity, Brownmiller shows how stifling, pointless,
and even harmful, concentration on femininity can be for women and
society as well.
DOWLING, COLLETTE
The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence
RC 17328
After years of observation and research, including interviews with
professionals who work with women, the author comes to the
conclusion that most women have a deep psychological wish to be
taken care of by someone else. Dowling analyzes the ways women are
trained for helplessness and reveals how they can free themselves, since
through death, desertion, or divorce, the majority of women end up
alone and on their own.
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