30 June 2010

Summer Reading, Having Me a Blast

I have 25 books from the library (yay for free books!) and almost 10 more that I own, all of which I want to read but probably won't finish entirely cover-to-cover. I've read parts of most of them, but during the summer I find it difficult to focus on a single book when it's not required. Too much to learn and ponder (in a social justice framework, not in a colonizing manner)!

Recommendations, reviews, or critiques? Let me know; it's always good to expand my mind through shared knowledge.
  • This Bridge Called My Back: Writings from Radical Women of Color, Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga
  • Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood
  • James Baldwin: Collected Essays, James Baldwin
  • Our Bodies, Ourselves, Boston Women's Health Book Collective
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
  • Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
  • Stonewall: the Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, David Carter
  • Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls, ed. Laura Harris and Elizabeth Crocker
  • Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, ed. Daisy Hernández and Bushra Rehman
  • Built to Win: the Female Athlete as Cultural Icon, Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin
  • Lady Sings the Blues, Billie Holiday with William Dufty
  • the Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction, ed. Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle
  • Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, bell hooks
  • Feminist Theory: from Margin to Center, bell hooks
  • Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings, Zora Neale Hurston
  • Bitchfest: 10 Years of Cultural Criticism, ed. Lisa Jarvis and Andi Zeisler
  • Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace, Serene Jones [Note: I don't currently self-identify as a Christian, but rather am intrigued at proposed intersections between these two fields of thought.]
  • the Winona LaDuke Reader: a Collection of Essential Writings, Winona LaDuke
  • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James Loewen
  • Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde
  • Sexual Politics, Kate Millett
  • Feminism without Borders, Chandra Talpede Mohanty
  • Sisterhood Is Powerful, ed. Robin Morgan
  • Feminist Frontiers, ed. Laurel Richardson, Verta Taylor, and Nancy Whittier
  • the Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class, David Roediger
  • the Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom, Barbara Smith
  • Sleeping Beauty, Indeed, ed. JoSelle Vanderhooft
  • Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde
  • Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England, ed. Jack Zipes
Also on my list to read:
  • Gender Trouble, Judith Butler
  • the Dialectic of Sex, Shulamith Firestone
  • Female Masculinity, J. Halberstam
  • Lover, Bertha Harris
  • Brave New World, Aldoux Huxley
  • the Female Man, Joanna Russ
  • a People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
Finally, I've also read:
  • the Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
  • White like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, Tim Wise

3 comments:

  1. what a collection! We read a little of Zora Neal Hurston's writing in my american studies class, and it was very good - i recommend it.
    also, I would steer clear of the "lies my teacher told me" book if I were you. I know the type, and they tend not to be worth the time. if you want to delve into american history with worthwhile books, I have a pretty good selection of recommendations.

    -Kevin :)

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  2. hey, i have to read brave new world for senior AP english! cool coincidence. i have no suggestions that i think you'd like.

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  3. i LOVE Margaret Atwood. I only read one of her books but it was so well-crafted, i should get around to reading more by her. Sadly, my advanced screenwriting class at USC keeps me very, very busy

    - Brad

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