by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 23, 2018 | RESIST: Feminism
Inspired by The Beauty Myth and by its author Naomi Wolf, I went to the gym this morning with a new set of eyes. And no makeup, my hair pulled back in a poof of raggedy curls on my head. Oh wait, that’s how I always go to the gym or the pool for my workouts. But the...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 17, 2018 | RESIST: Feminism
fIn We Were Feminists Once, Andi Zeisler deconstructs recent incarnations of feminism, especially as it connects to pop culture and advertising. She mixes acerbic wit and interviews with both fellow journalists and researchers. But the crux of her work is her specific...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Oct 13, 2018 | RESIST: Feminism
Let me tell you how I started reading Good and Mad from Rebecca Traister. I was watching Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. I was also on Twitter, because I wanted to experience this momentous hearing with other people, even...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 30, 2018 | RESIST: Feminism
If you’re looking for concrete ideas about everyday activism, read Keep Marching: How Every Woman Can Take Action and Change Our World by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner. The author breaks down today’s most critical human rights issues, and provides an action plan. Keep...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Apr 16, 2018 | RESIST: Feminism
I started Women & Power: A Manifesto from Mary Beard at breakfast. By dinner, I had finished this short and insightful read. Beard is a classics professor at University of Cambridge. She has a uniquely English perspective, but uses examples from throughout the...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Apr 12, 2018 | RESIST: Feminism
Kayleen Schaefer explores twenty-first century female friendships with gusto in Text Me When You Get Home. Like a great coffee date with your bestie, it’s the perfect blend of research, analysis, and real-life stories. By the end I was eyeing up that woman in the next...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 21, 2018 | RESIST: Feminism
Kate Harding wrote Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture–and What We Can Do about It before the #MeToo movement began. Since it was published many more high profile sexual harassment and assault accusations and consequences have occurred. I figured...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 12, 2018 | LEARN: Everything Else, RESIST: Feminism
In Delusions of Gender, Cordelia Fine, PhD sets out to debunk the prevailing opinions about the male and female genders. The subtitle says it all: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference. She reviews large quantities of studies, articles, and...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 27, 2018 | RESIST: Feminism
Today’s Women’s Marchers owe a lot to Johanna Neuman’s Gilded Suffragists. There’s no doubt that high society at the turn of the twentieth century was the precursor of today’s activist celebrities. I just wish Neuman’s book had been more compelling. The women’s...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 28, 2017 | LEARN: Medical Memoir, RESIST: Feminism
Standing Strong is the perfect title for Diane Reeve’s moving memoir about acquiring HIV/AIDS from a long term partner who willfully transmitted the virus to many people. Reeve is still standing despite the devastation of finding out her significant other was cheating...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Oct 1, 2017 | RESIST: Feminism, RESIST: Politics
What Happened, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s exposition on the election cycle of 2016 proves her to be a great political thinker. That she’ll not also be a great political leader is the result of many things, and she willingly takes personal responsibility...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 3, 2017 | RESIST: Feminism
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chiminanda Ngozi Adichie is a short book full of smart ideas. I easily read it in under an hour. Adichie, author of both novels and other nonfiction about feminism, was asked by a friend how to raise a...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 9, 2017 | RESIST: Feminism
Last year when I joined Litsy I also discovered graphic novels. I’d always thought they were comic books, which made me think of teenage boys collecting and obsessing. And then I discovered Bitch Planet. It is most certainly not written and drawn for teenage...
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