--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > LOL!! Seriously, does anyone have any good feminist > books to recommend? do > you have the same problem I do? > such as Backlash
faludi can be a bit dry at times... > such as Christina Hoff Sommers' Who Stole Feminism, > seem mean-spirited and > too conservative for me. mean-spirited and conservative are mild terms for this book--it is a very anti-feminist/anti-feminism diatribe. > What about novels? alot of "feminist" writing is academic, and i'm sensing that is the stuff that bored you...like the faludi stuff. if you want something borderline academic i suggest these: Gender Trouble by Judith Butler Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology edited by Barbara Smith Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherrme Moraga and Gloria Anzaldza (this is a GREAT book) Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis to me, the writings that combine the issues of gender, race and class are the most interesting. that's my own personal problem, obviously! but my suggestions reflected that. and i don't think any of them are boring. here's some other fun or novelly-type suggestions: vagina monologues (yes, despite the hype, this is a REALLY good read). Girrl Genius Guide to life, by Cathryn Michon (VERY funny) A Little More About Me OR Cowboys are my Weakness by Pam Houston (one of my favorite authors ever). Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley ( a lighter read?) i think mark e. in seattle has read this, ask him what he thought. i saw the tv movie and it made me want to read the book but i havent yet. Orlando or A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf i guess i go on forever so i'll stop now. alison e. in slc, feminist capital np: ani difranco singing something angrily (just kidding) Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
