From the NYTimes:
Marilyn French, a writer and feminist activist whose debut novel, "The Women's Room," propelled her into a leading role in the modern feminist movement, died on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 79 and lived in Manhattan.With steely views about the treatment of woman and a gift for expressing them on the printed page, Ms. French transformed herself from an academic who quietly bristled at the expectations of married women in the post-World War II era to a leading, if controversial, opinion maker on gender issues who decried the patriarchal society she saw around her. "My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of Western civilization, to make it a feminist world," she once declared.
That's a goal I can get behind.
More thoughts about French's work and life at Isak.
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That is so WEIRD. My mom JUST gave me "The Women's Room" to read. My I wish her a very sincere R.I.P.
Mmm. 'Tis too bad. Thanks for posting this and letting us know. I have to go back now and refresh my memory on the things I've read by her!