{"product_id":"the-womens-room-by-marilyn-french","title":"'The Women's Room' by Marilyn French","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"73\" data-end=\"409\"\u003eDesperate housewives eat your heart out.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"73\" data-end=\"409\"\u003eFirst published in 1977, \u003cem data-start=\"98\" data-end=\"116\"\u003eThe Women’s Room\u003c\/em\u003e is a landmark feminist novel that refuses to soften its edges. It follows Mira Ward and a wide circle of women as they move through marriage, motherhood, work, sexuality, and political awakening in mid-20th-century America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"411\" data-end=\"795\"\u003eDomestic life here is an arrangement. A place where intimacy becomes a site of power, and education a delayed but destabilising force. The novel’s strength lies in its accumulation — conversations, compromises, rage, boredom, solidarity — until personal dissatisfaction coheres into political consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"797\" data-end=\"1058\"\u003eOften described as divisive, \u003cem data-start=\"826\" data-end=\"844\"\u003eThe Women’s Room\u003c\/em\u003e remains bracing precisely because it does not aim to be likeable. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43449997754451,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/1b5f7b77-efc2-4f07-9739-9878adab2ca7.jpg?v=1768958633","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-womens-room-by-marilyn-french","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}