Blogger Free Bekah posted a blog saying, in a fantasy, she would like “to teach a class on
Cover of Are Women Human?
contemporary women’s issues. ….My class will be about feminist issues in contemporary discourse
(media, mostly). Which means mostly mommy wars, body issues, and women
in the workplace…if you even consider those to be separate issues.”
Here are some of the books she would assign…. but if, after perusing the list, you’re not up to reading them all, you can click on over to Amazon.com and read a summary and some reviews; Bekah, herself, is a big fan of this kind of condensed acquisition of knowledge which she used, in the form of “coursepacks” at the London School of Economics, where she attended grad school (brainy and adventurous lady):
- “Valenti, J. Why Have Kids? Houghton Mifflen, New York. 2012; Chapter 5: “The Hardest Job in the World”
- Moran, C. How to be a Woman Harper Perennial, New York. 2011;Chapter 2: I Become Furry!; Chapter 4: I am a Feminist!; Chapter 5: INeed a Bra!; Chapter 7: I Encounter Some Sexism!; Chapter 11: I Get into
Fashion!; Chapter 12: Why You Should Have Children; Chapter 13: Why You
Shouldn’t Have Children; Chapter 14: Role Models and What We Do with
Them; Chapter 16: Intervention.
- Martin, C. Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters The BerkleyPublishing Group, New York. 2007; Chapter 2: From Good to Perfect:Feminism’s Unintended Legacy; Chapter 3: The Male Mirror: Her Father’s
Eyes; Chapter 5: Sex as a Cookie: Growing up Hungry; Chapter 6: The
Revolution Still Will Not be Televised: Pop, Hip-Hop, Race and the
Media; Chapter 11: The Real World Ain’t No MTV: How the Body Become the
Punching Bag for Post-College Disappointment; Chapter 12: Spiritual
Hunger.
- Sessions-Stepp, L. Unhooked Riverhead Books, New York. 2007; Section 3: How We Got There; Section 4: Hooking-Up: Why It Matters.
- Barger, L. Callas Eve’s Revenge Brazos Press Grand Rapids. 2003; Chapter 2: The Body is My Alter
I will also include one non-contemporary text, available as a complete book, though it is a collection of essays:
- Sayers, D. Are Women Human? Wm. B. Eerdmens, Grand Rapids, 1971″
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