[Anarchafeminists] Good books?

[Jamie Heckert]

I'd second Caliban! other books that have inspired by anarchist/feminist
imagination include

Fiction-wise:

Ursula le Guin - Always Coming Home, The Left Hand of Darkness, The
Dispossessed, and everything else :)

Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, Wildseed

Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time, Body of Glass

Laurie J. Marks - The Elemental Logic series ( beautiful
Marxist/Buddhist/queer stories about occupation, identity and revolution)

Dorothy Allison - Bastard out of Carolina (autobiographical fiction -
beautiful and painful!)

Starhawk - The Fifth Sacred Thing

Non-Fiction:

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's autobiographical works starting with Read Dirt.

Threads by Lisa (feminist health)

Undoing Gender by Judith Butler (bit heavy, maybe, but her most accessible
and certainly moreso than some things in Freedom :) )

Feminism without Borders by Chandra Mohanty

Wild: An Elemental Journy by Jay Griffiths (poetic anarcha-indigenous travel
writing)

Zeros & Ones by Sadie Plant (beautiful book on women and technology)

The Ecology of Everyday Life by Chaia Heller (anarcha-ecofeminist classic)

The Arts of the Possible by Adrienne Rich (as well as her other works).

Love,
Jamie





On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Emma Pooka
<purplepooka at blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:

>  Too many to list, but I just recently finished ‘Caliban and the Witch’ by
> Silvia Federici and can’t recommend it highly enough.  Really thorough
> analysis of how the shift from feudalism to capitalism required a drastic
> change in the social status of women and necessitated a campaign of mass
> persecution (the witch hunts) to create that social role.
>
> Also, just offhand, ‘How to Suppress Women’s Writing’ by Joanna Russ.
> She’s just so incisive and witty and wonderful.
>
> Emma
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> *From:* jae ess [mailto:itsme_jae at yahoo.co.uk]
> *Sent:* 10 April 2010 16:03
> *To:* a-fem list
> *Subject:* [Anarchafeminists] Good books?
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>
>
> Hey hey all,
>
> One of the collective at Freedom Bookshop in London asked me if I could
> suggest any good books on women/gender/feminism-type issues that they could
> stock in order to improve their list - and I thought I'd throw it open to
> all of you.
>
> What are your old favourites and new discoveries?
> What do you think other people might want to buy?
> Feminist type stuff much welcomed, but equally any other really good
> reccomendations on other subjects (or even fiction) also appreciated.
>
> Many thanks
> Jae
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