American Library in Paris Book Group

Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: Feminism at a Crossroads

Tuesdays, 19h00–20h30 (Waitlist Only)

Following the success of last year’s Girls in Cultish Fiction book group this new book group “Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” feminism at a Crossroads will focus on reading about girlhood through an academic lens but with a pop culture twist!

We’ll be reading academic essays, pop culture memoirs, classic essays and even pick our own teen movie for our movie night.

Join the club of Forever21!

Led by Victoria Robert

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Reading List

  • Girlhood by Melissa Febos (2021)
  • The Routledge Companion to Girls’ Studies edited by Sharon Mazzarella(intro)
  • Future Girl: Young Women in the Twenty-First Century by Anita Harris (intro)
  • On Female Body Experience: Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays by Iris Marion Young
  • Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell
  • The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula Leguin (1986)
  • A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (1923)
  • The White Album by Joan Didion
  • White Girls by Hilton Als
  • The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling by Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso
  • Feminist Killjoy by Sara Ahmed
  • Movie Night TBD : The Virgin Suicides/ Crossroads/ Mean Girls

Meeting Dates

  • 7 October
  • 4 November
  • 2 December
  • 6 January
  • 3 February
  • 10 March
  • 7 April
  • 5 May
  • 2 June