recommended reading
alright, in the heated blog o' the day, sisterstu had the idea of making a recommended reading list for hipmamas. i am all about educating myself, especially lately, and am looking for good books. i've read a a lot of really great ones, and was wondering if you mamas would like to post your favorite race/class/womens issues/human issues books on this thread for future(or present) reference. i would hate to have a really great one slip through the cracks...you know the book that you read and then say "why did i only find this book now!?!?!?!"
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Nietzsche
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hipmama books, by ariel gore.
i'll go ahead and add cunt to the list.
“They think I do not know a buttload of crap about the Gospel, but I do!�
with CUNT, bigger is better.
(sorry couldn't help myself)
* I blame men *
* I'm all fight and no flight *
Word. CUNT is a great book.
I must say I find television very educating. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
~ Groucho Marx
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
~ Groucho Marx
i have tons to recommend, but i'm drawing a semi-blank right now. i'll revisit this thread when i think of more.
i especially recommend Witches, Midwives, and Nurses considering it's relative to you wanting to pursue a career in the male-dominated medical profession.
the military strategy of women and children by butch lee
ain't i a woman by bell hooks (natch)
to be real edited by rebecca walker
night vision by butch lee
more to come...
"If a woman who sleeps with other women is smashing patriarchy, then a woman who sleeps with whomever she wants is just plain anarchy."
-Unknown
"If a woman who sleeps with other women is smashing patriarchy, then a woman who sleeps with whomever she wants is just plain anarchy."
-Unknown
my numero uno book would be Women's bodies Women's Wisdom by Christiane Northrup this would be under "women's issues". I have bought it for all the women in my family.And I refer to it all the time.
One that I really like regarding race and human relationships is Ralph Ellison's Invisible man.
I'll keep thinking. Hey, where ould we keep such a communal "list" so that we all could access it without having to wade through a big long search? I know we have a recipes section, is there a book section?
*non- violent communication- marshall rosenburg
*spiritual midwifery- ina mae gaskin
*everyday blessings- jon/myla kabat-zinn
*autobiography of a blue-eyed devil- inga muscio
Everyday Blessings is great. I read it while I was preggo and just got it back out the other night.
I must say I find television very educating. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
~ Groucho Marx
strange quark recommended it to me- they need to send this home with every new parent.
I agree. I'll be handing them out to all my pregnant friends, if I ever have any. 
I must say I find television very educating. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
~ Groucho Marx
Nickeled and Dimed
Respect In A World of Inequalty
Bobos in Paradise
On Paradise Drive
The Working Poor
Freakanomics
People's History of the United States
Lies My Teacher Told Me
There Are No Children Here (This book will rip your heart out. I think the boys were living in Cabrini Green (sp)
I'll think of more.
I must say I find television very educating. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
~ Groucho Marx
nickel and dimed- totally!
'cuz there are so many great reads out there. here's a few that spring to mind:
sister/outsider by audre lorde
skin: talking about sex,class, and literature and two or three things i know for sure by dorothy allison
black looks and class matters by bell hooks
miscegenation blues edited by carol camper
octavia butler's novels
salt roads by nalo hopkinson
the handmaid's tale by margaret atwood
colonize this! young women of color on today's feminism edited by daisy hernandez and bushra rehman
the mixed blood issue of canadian feminist journal fireweed
without a net edited by michelle tea
when nickels were indians: an urban mixed blood story by patricia penn hilden
last standing woman and all our relations by winona laduke
woman and nature: the roaring inside her by susan griffin
when god was a woman by merlin stone
consensual genocide by leah lakshmi piepzna-samarisinha
"if i pass for other than what i am/do you feel safer?" ~lani ka'ahumanu
www.walkingthewalls.blogspot.com
"dragon knows dragon
"if i pass for other than what i am, do you feel safer?" ~ lani ka'ahumanu
dragon knows dragon
*future shock- alvin toffler
*why people believe weird things- michael shermer
*anything by carl jung
by kate boornstein.
A "boy" grows up and gets a sex change, but "she" finds out that she is not a "man" or a "woman" and a ton of great stuff about genderization. Kate ends up pretty damn happy and amused as hell by her vagina and glad to be a person.
Very illuminating about gender roles. she has a question something like "if you see a person and you cannot tell if they are male or female you wonder what they are, but say you are attracted to them - what does that make you?" She says it better. Sees gender as a spectrum. Invaluable info for raising a kid.
there's also my gender workbook and hello, cruel world by kate bornstein, and in the same theme, stone butch blues, transgender warriors, and transliberation: beyond pink & blue by leslie feinberg.
"if i pass for other than what i am/do you feel safer?" ~lani ka'ahumanu
www.walkingthewalls.blogspot.com
"dragon knows dragon
theorising recommended it a few heated blogs ago...
dh just finished it and i am starting it.
"Here I am. Rock you like a hurricane."
-The Scorpions
"Here I am. Rock you like a hurricane."
-The Scorpions
***the United States is one of only four out of 168 countries studied to not have some form of paid family leave for new moms. We join Swaziland, Papua New Guinea, and Lesotho in not having that policy in place. ***
Aurora Levins Morales-Medicine Stories
Cherrie Moraga-Loving in the War Years
Minnie Bruce Pratt-"Identity: Blood, Skin, Heart" in Rebellion
George Lipsitz-The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
Danzy Senna-Caucasia
This Bridge Called My Back
Grace Chang-Disposable Domestics
Barbara Smith-The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom
i went to check out these books and found another i thought might bring some things to light.
It's the little things, the everyday Interactions that Get under the skin of Blacks and whites by Lena Williams.
talks about the things we see and do everyday that e may have no clue indicate and perpetuate racism. i just started and already love it and have learned some thing.
Jessica
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind~~Dr.Seuss
Jessica
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind~~Dr.Seuss
Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write about Race
edited by Marita Golden & Susan Richards Shreve
This was recommended to me by another hipmama during the last race fracass. I found the essays within to be greatly illuminating, especially the wide range of black women's real life experience with racism. I found myself saying, 'oooh, so that's how it really feels', a lot.
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i'm going to up that by saying the expanded and updated second edition of cunt.
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Nietzsche