[Anarchafeminists] Good books?

[Jasper Murphy]

*Thanks Jamie.*

Here's one that I don't think anyone else will mention but in a way it's a
manual to genderqueerness in Science Fiction form, *Triton*, by Samuel
Delany <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_%28novel%29>     is worth
getting in, and would be a kind of interesting and weird addition.

I also think that any kind of accessible reader of Judith Butler, any kind
of easy enjoyable version of her ideas would be really important- more
important than having her actual books.  I have something called "Judith
Butler live theory" by Vicki Kirby but haven't really opened it up enough to
see if it's any good.

Also if it hasn't been mentioned a really well written and accessible and
thorough Introduction to Feminism would be essential of course.

Jamie

On 13 April 2010 12:28, Jamie Heckert <jamie.heckert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Jasper,
>
> I think this came just to me rather than whole list...
>
> Warmly,
> Jamie
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Jasper Murphy <teastains at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Here's one that I don't think anyone else will mention but in a way it's a
>> manual to genderqueerness in Science Fiction form, *Triton*, by Samuel
>> Delany <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_%28novel%29>     is worth
>> getting in, and would be a kind of interesting and weird addition.
>>
>> I also think that any kind of accessible reader of Judith Butler, any kind
>> of easy enjoyable version of her ideas would be really important- more
>> important than having her actual books.  I have something called "Judith
>> Butler live theory" by Vicki Kirby but haven't really opened it up enough to
>> see if it's any good.
>>
>> Also if it hasn't been mentioned a really well written and accessible and
>> thorough Introduction to Feminism would be essential of course.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12 April 2010 23:30, Jamie Heckert <jamie.heckert at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From:* jae ess [mailto:itsme_jae at yahoo.co.uk]
>>>> *Sent:* 10 April 2010 16:03
>>>> *To:* a-fem list
>>>> *Subject:* [Anarchafeminists] Good books?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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>>
>> --
>> click, whir.
>>
>> Jasper Murphy
>>
>
>


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