S. Jansen 
Reading Women’s Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing [PDF ebook] 
A Guide to Six Centuries of Women Writers Imagining Rooms of Their Own

Reading Nafisi at the YMCA * I Have a Dream: Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own * Let’s Talk: Conversation in Moderata Fonte’s The Worth of Women and Marjane Satrapi’s Embroideries * Design for Living: Women’s Communities in Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure and Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies * Trouble in Paradise: Men in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland and Doris Lessing’s The Cleft * Buried Alive: Arcangela Tarabotti’s Paternal Tyranny and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ * Brave New Worlds: Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale and Slavenka Drakulic’s S. A Novel about the Balkans * Still Crazy after All These Years: Doris Lessing’s ‘To Room Nineteen’ and Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran

Sharon Jansen is the author of
Anne of France: Lessons for My Daughter,
The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe, and
Dangerous Talk and Strange Behavior: Women and Popular Resistance to the Reforms to Henry VIII.