Book Club

YWTF-NYC hosts a monthly book club (third Wednesday of every month) at Tea Spot in the West Village. November's book club selection is How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America. The author, Christina Page, will join us for the discussion at NARAL Pro-Choice America. Contact us if you'd like to join!

We have featured the following books in the past:

When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone
Your Money and Your Life: The High Stakes for Women Voters in '08 and Beyond by Martha Burk
Jane Sexes It Up edited by Merri Lisa Johnson
The Meaning of Wife by Anne Kingston
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz
Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters by Jessica Valenti
The F Word: Feminism in Jeopardy--Women, Politics, and the Future by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy
Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide by Maureen Dowd

If you are interested in joining the Book Club Committee, please contact Rebecca Andruszka and/or Alex Zimmerman.

Here are some of YWTF-NYC membership's other favorite books:

Fiction
The Vagabond by Colette
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

Non-Fiction

Self Made Man by Norah Vincent

Couldn't Keep It To Myself by Wally Lamb

Look Both Ways by Jennifer Baumgartner
A Common Secret by Sue Wicklund
Potential by Ariel Schrag

How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America by Christina Page

Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters by Courtney E. Martin

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays by Ellen Willis

To submit book ideas, for this page or for the bookclub, please email us.