When: Thursday, 4th of April, 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Where: Bewleys Cafe on Grafton Street
The Book: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Facebook Event: IFN April Book Club
How to find us: We'll be downstairs in the restaurant section. Our reservation will be under Irish Feminist Network. We'll have the book displayed upright on the table.


About:

**Trigger warning: This book deals with mental illness and suicide**

Recently, Faber have released a 50th anniversary edition of the book and there's been some controversy about the cover: Guardian article on Bell Jar Cove

And here's some more info:

Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational--as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic. Goodreads Review

Book reviews:

Independent Newspaper Bell Jar Review

This one has major spoilers: Classic Lit Bell Jar Review

There's also a movie from 1979: IMBD Bell Jar Film Page

To facilitate discussion, we'll have these ground rules:

-Everyone has the right to contribute to the discussion
-Refrain from personal attacks, criticise the idea and not the person
-Everyone is welcome to attend regardless of age, gender, race, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious belief, disability, membership of the travelling community, marital status or family status.

Happy reading & hope to see you next month!

The next book club will be held on Thursday, 7th of March at 7:30pm in Bewleys cafe. All are welcome!

As chosen by the last book club's attendees and those in the FB group, the book of the month is: Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins.

**If you're planning to come to the book club, it might be wise to locate a copy of the book asap as you may have to order it online http://www.amazon.com/Black-Feminist-Thought-Consciousness-Empowerment/dp/0415964725**

Patricia Hill Collins will also be visiting Ireland in March. You can register to see her speak at UCD. More info here:
http://www.facebook.com/events/321752221268307/?ref=ts&fref=ts

UCD have also provided two free essays on their website, which you can download from here: http://www.ucd.ie/socialjustice/newsevents/body,159635,en.html

And here's some info about the book:

"In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought"
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/353598.Black_Feminist_Thought

Book reviews:

http://clementinemorrigan.com/2012/01/10/a-reflection-on-patricia-hill-collins-defining-black-feminist-thought/

http://blogs.stlawu.edu/gss290fall2011/2011/09/16/conceptualizing-knowledge-in-black-feminist-thought-by-patricia-hill-collins/

To facilitate discussion, we'll have these ground rules:

-Everyone has the right to contribute to the discussion
-Refrain from personal attacks, criticise the idea and not the person
-Everyone is welcome to attend regardless of age, gender, race, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious belief, disability, membership of the travelling community, marital status or family status.

We'll be in the back of Bewleys in the restaurant section. The reservation will be under Irish Feminist Network.