👃🦵👀 Her body & other parties? American women throughout the years

📚 About our sessions
Please read the stories listed below before attending. For every story we will start with summarizing the story so that we have it fresh in our minds. We will share our opinions about the story, which parts we liked and which we didn't like, and we will discuss any and all aspects of the story and the writing.

📖 About this session
This session is the story of a little experiment. The session aims to run through 125 years of history and go through different stories in different times about the relationship of American women and their bodies. The point is to see what has changed and what has remained in the message, despite the change in style and language.

Have things changed after all this time? What were the old issues? What are the new issues? Are the same issues there after all that time? To discuss the previous questions and more, the four selected stories will be the core and the common thread for the discussion. All the stories in this sessions are worth to be told, but unfortunately, not all the stories worth to be told are part of this session.

For this session, please read the following stories:

👻🏘️😱 The Giant Wistaria - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories, 1891) (3000 words)
🤢💔 Lady With a Lamp - Dorothy Parker (Big Blonde, 1931) (3000 words)
💇🤫🇰🇪 Nairobi - Joyce Carol Oates (High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories, 1983) (2500 words)
🍽️👨‍⚕️ Eight Bites - Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body & Other Parties, 2017) (6000 words)

After the discussion, feel free to stick around, socialize, and make new friends. ☕

Session soundtrack and inspiration: 100 Years - Florence + The Machine and Hunger - Florence + The Machine