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Title: Listen Up 2 Ed: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation by Barbara Findlen ISBN: 1-58005-054-9 Publisher: Seal Press Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.37 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a pleasure to read.
Comment: this is one of the first books i've read about feminism, so i don't proclaim to be an expert, but i really enjoyed reading so many different perspectives about feminism. these women's opinions were interesting to read. i read it straight through one afternoon and was sad to put it down. i particularly enjoyed the essays by curtis sittenfield, abra chernik, nomy lamm, laurel gilbert, jennifer myhre, and cheryl green. the essays seemed a little short to me, though. but my one beef with the book is that every single one of writers was a well-educated woman who had gone at least for her bachelor's. what about women who weren't able to go to college? the book seemed to emphasize varieties of feminism but that varieties of education wasn't taken into account surprised me. there are feminists out there with merely a high school education or even less. i hope maybe someday to see a sequel to this book where those factors are taken into account.
Rating: 4
Summary: a good read for feminists and non-feminists alike
Comment: But you must be interested in women or social politics . . .
Even if you think you know what feminism is all about, one of this book's essays should give you a new perspective. It consists of collections of essays from the many different women that call themselves feminists. From lesbians, straight women, bisexuals, african-americans and caucasians, aerobics instructors to full-time writers . . . there is a lot of variety. One section made me cry and I can't forget what I read in there. Another section made me understand a feminist perspective that I had never understood before. If you are a feminist, some of this book may be self-affirming. If you are not yet a feminist, maybe you will learn that you can be one without losing any of your ideals. There is room for everyone in this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Voices that ring true...
Comment: Profound, eloquent articulate, wrenching. After the first reading, nearly every page has markings, passages I relate to, echoes of my life or thoughts, or points I find myself surprised or ashamed to have missed, overlooked or ignored. There are notes in the margins of every essay, authors or other figures I don't want to forget, awakenings that came at the end of a paragraph sentence, or even mid-sentence.
In the essay by Curtis Sittenfeld, titled "Your Life as a Girl," I saw myself in literally every paragraph, from the early triumph of running the timed mile and beating not only all the other girls, but all but one or two of the boys, to the first time I gave up trying (be it a math problem or the precise spin of a football throw), admitting myself the weaker, slower or less intelligent. The year I spent perpetually chilled, wearing clinging fabrics to show the body I'd "worked" so hard for, while at home I piled on the layers and spent hours in front of the space heater, and nights dreaming of lavish meals I would never eat. The year upon year upon year spent camouflaging the giddy pleasure at being deemed worthy of brief attention by the object of my (temporarily) undying affection, followed inevitably by the crushing voice that convinced me that my poochy belly was the reason for my unrequited devotion. Most nights are now spent dreaming not of romance (at least not the kind they build novels around) or wealth, but of crossing that finish line to sit with the boys and gloat, watching all the rest straggle in after me.
To wit, an essential read for any woman searching for a voice she relates to, but always coming up short of that perfectly articulated match. These are voices you can trust to speak clearly, loudly, angrily, humorously and with integrity and honesty about the challenges we still face.
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Title: To Be Real : Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism by Rebecca Edby Walker ISBN: 0385472625 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Manifesta : Young Women, Feminism, and the Future by Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards ISBN: 0374526222 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 04 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks ISBN: 0896086283 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Live Girls Series) by Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman, Daisy Hemandez ISBN: 1580050670 Publisher: Seal Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism by Leslie Heywood, Jennifer Drake ISBN: 0816630054 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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