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As an 17-year-old freshwoman at Barnard College, Stephanie Staal took a survey class in which she read Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan — great feminist classics. Over a decade later, 100 percent older, she decided to return to Barnard to re-take the class, and re-read those books. She wanted to see if they meant something more, or different, to her now that she was a wife, a mother, and a thirtysomething.
On this episode of Paper Trails, the public-radio show about book, co-hosts Mark Oppenheimer and Brian Francis Slattery, along with panelist Binnie Klein, talk with Stephanie Staal about Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life.
(Sneak preview: they did not all like her book.)
