1. Cities and Gender Class 3
The Four-Gated City

2. Doris Lessing ( )

3. Doris Lessing (1919-2013) First novel: The Grass is Singing (1950)
Breaktrhough: The Golden Notebook (1962)
Nobel Prize in 2007; "epicist of the female experience”; the oldest winner of the prize
She had an impact on feminism

4. Doris Lessing (1919-2013) First novel: The Grass is Singing (1950)
Breakthrough: The Golden Notebook (1962)
Nobel Prize in 2007; "epicist of the female experience”; the oldest winner of the prize
Published more than 50 novels

5. Children of Violence (1952-1969)
Martha Quest (1952)
A Proper Marriage (1954)
A Ripple from the Storm (1958)
Landlocked (1965)
The Four-Gated City (1969)
 semi-autobiographical sequence beginning when Martha is 15.

6. Motto 1: Sufism Idries Shah (1924-1996)
She read his book, The Sufis in 1964.
„It is a cliché to say that such and such a book changed one's life, but that book changed mine”
Her friend and her teacher 
Moderate and liberal Islam

7. Motto 2: Biologism Rachel Carson (1907-1964) American marine biologist
 Bestsellers: The Sea Aroung Us (1951); The Edge of the Sea (1955)
 explores ocean life from the shores to the depths.