[Anarchafeminists] Good books?

Wed Apr 14 12:52:13 UTC 2010

Hi 

So this could become an endless list but I am just starting to read Feminism is for Everyone by Bell Hooks which is great and gives a really good race and class analysis of feminism in a very accessible format. Also Audre Lorde is fab, Zamie another spelling of my name is amazing. And Assata which is great too. The Clitoral Truth, Our Bodies OurSelves are also brilliant for info on health and sexuality. Hand me Down distro has an extensive list of books and zines on feminist health, gender and sexuality, can't get their web site right now as at work, but will look it up and email.

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:30:33 +0100
From: teastains at gmail.com
To: anarchafeminists at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: Re: [Anarchafeminists] Good books?

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     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     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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