Dr. Gina Barreca is a women's humorist, author, writer, speaker and professor at UConn. Her latest book, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?: Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times" is a collection of fun, feminist-infused essays. The feminist humor maven stopped by "Just the Right Book" right before the Women's Marches to chat with Roxanne about the women empowerment books that we all need to read.    

Gina's site: http://ginabarreca.com/

Books in this episode:

"If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times By Gina Barreca

The Second Sex By Simone De Beauvoir

The Golden Notebook By Doris Lessing

Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo By Mary Douglas

How Institutions Think By Mary Douglas

The Powers of the Weak By Elizabeth Janeway

We Should All Be Feminists By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman By Robert K. Massie

Cleopatra: A Life By Stacy Schiff

Personal History By Katharine Graham

She By H. Rider Haggard

My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind By Scott Stossel

Pretty Is By Maggie Mitchell

In Praise of Folly By Desiderius Erasmus