I just bought Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781580052016&itm=2) by Jessica Valenti and Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780743287968&itm=1) by Courtney E. Martin. I'm telling you this so you don't buy them. You can totally borrow them (or maybe even keep them...i need less books) once I've read them. Ironically, I purchased these books with the shipping funds I was repaid for mailing books to people so that I would have less books in the house. i need to go to book rehab.
in other news, i re-read about 98% of Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs last night. I think I've got like 15 pages left now. It's such a quick read. The first time I read it I (think I) read it concurrently with Kipnis' The Female Thing. They went well together. I may have to re-read the Kipnis now too.
When the Valenti book arrives, I think I will sandwich it on my bedtable between a Dworkin book and a Brownmiller book. ;-)
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I just bought Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781580052016&itm=2) by Jessica Valenti and Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780743287968&itm=1) by Courtney E. Martin. I'm telling you this so you don't buy them. You can totally borrow them (or maybe even keep them...i need less books) once I've read them. Ironically, I purchased these books with the shipping funds I was repaid for mailing books to people so that I would have less books in the house. i need to go to book rehab.
in other news, i re-read about 98% of Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs last night. I think I've got like 15 pages left now. It's such a quick read. The first time I read it I (think I) read it concurrently with Kipnis' The Female Thing. They went well together. I may have to re-read the Kipnis now too.
When the Valenti book arrives, I think I will sandwich it on my bedtable between a Dworkin book and a Brownmiller book. ;-)