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more about #margaretatwood buttonflyer: Wise Children by Angela Carter. Any of her work, really. #feministbooks more » whynotshesaid: OH HAI! My new reading list! #feministbooks more » Gavagirl: The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan (1405). It's a classic, but one I rarely see mentioned. Another one I don't see here is The Mis... more » BytheSea: Nekropolis, Maureen McHugh. Future world, middle east. Woman who lives in the necropolis agrees to be genetically programmed to be the perfect kept wo... more » agirlnamedstewart: I'm cowering here, my virtual forearms over my virtual forehead, but...Gone with The Wind. Scarlett is a woman ahead of her time and, I think, a femin... more » Ms Meghan is Reppin' the Triforce: Two essays that PROFOUNDLY changed my life: 1. Imitation and Gender Insubordination by Judith Butler. I have never looked at not just gender identit... more » MargaretMoony: Eve and Adam by Kristen Kvam, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, and Great Speeches by American Women. #f... more » Spiderra: "Age, Race, Class, Sex: Women Redefining Difference," Audre Lorde "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspond... more » La Chica Lucy: Okay, I don't want to get in trouble for promoting every single comment in this thread, so I am just going to suggest that everyone view ALL the comme... more » tiredfairy: Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy Whipping Girl: A Transexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Sterano The Female... more » krismry: Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation by latter day saints excommunique Sonia Johnson is a radical inspiration from 1987 that proves t... more » Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: The Feminine Mystique, Pride and Prejudice*, Our Bodies Our Selves (thanks, Mum), and Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs. Also, in terms of homegrown... more » GirlTakeItEasy: I don't really read 'feminist' books. I do look for books with strong female characters, but I don't know if I've ever read a book explicitly about fe... more » pajanguin: Appetites by Caroline Knapp. It's both a memoir of anorexia, and a critique of the capitalist/patriarchal system of which anorexia is one of many sym... more » Erda: I need to finish The Second Sex, which I started for a feminist & queer theory class but our professor didn't have us read all of it. As well as ... more » andromache: Euripides' Medea. actually it's been interpreted as both misogynistic as well as feminist. either way, it's worth reading. I recommend the Esposito... more » kellieherson: As well as many of the things already mentioned here, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" would be on mine. Every English te... more » doit2julia: I can recommend the pretty obscure Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a novel about three World War I era male explorers who get lost & stumble upon... more » hej hej: I absolutely loved Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, by Alix Kates Shulman. I first read it when I was in middle school (about 15 years ago). It was the pe... more » PoisonPixie: Also, When Woman was God...but I don't know the author.... #feministbooks more » -
#booklearnin
What's On Your Feminist Reading List?
Ariel Levy recommends Andrea Dworkin's Heartbreak and Janet Malcolm's Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice. We'd like to add Hélène Cixous's "The Laugh of the Medusa" and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. You? [The New Yorker] -
#quoteunquote
Margaret Atwood, In 140 Characters
"Twitter isn't writing, it's signaling...It could be writing. In fact, I thought of doing something like John Cage's symphony that will be played over 100 years. You could put a word a day on to the 'twit', or 'tweet'?" [Reuters] -
#feminisms
Is Margaret Atwood A Feminist? Are You?
The Guardian is worried that "if Margaret Atwood isn't sure she is a feminist anymore," feminists might be "an endangered species." But Atwood's take on the f-word is more complicated than the Guardian implies — and so is ours. More » -
#booknotes
Munro Pulls A Heigl
Alice Munro has taken her new collection "Too Much Happiness" out of the running for Canada's prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize, which she's won twice before - thereby ending literary nerds' hopes for a showdown with Margaret Atwood. [NYT] -
#leftovers
Man Accused In Murder Of Neda Soltan • Dude With Woman's Cornea Now Likes Cleaning
• Pro-government militiaman Abbas Kargar Javid has been accused of murdering Neda Soltan, the young woman from Iran who became an international symbol after her death was shown on YouTube. The regime has yet to take action against Javid. • More » -
#truestories
Coming To A Miniscule, Socially-Conscious Art House Near You!
Margaret Atwood's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is going to be made into a documentary. Sources say the film "will probe how the metaphor of indebtedness has shaped societies over time." [THR] -
#margaretatwood
We're Guessing She's Not Into Twitter?
Margaret Atwood: "It's like everyone's blogging about how they brushed their teeth this morning." [NYT] -
#leftovers
Sarah Palin Unhappy With Intimate Biography • Fox Cub Prefers Human Company
• Governor Sarah Palin is speaking out against the "fantasies" published in the newly released "Trailblazer: An Intimate Biography of Sarah Palin." Her camp has accused author Lorenzo Benet of practicing "bad journalism." • More » -
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#margaretatwood
Carrying 'Tales' Out Of School
A Toronto father argues that inclusion of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale on his son's reading list is a violation of schoolboard policy, citing the novel's "foul language, anti-Christian overtones, violence and sexual degradation." [Shameless]
