The 2018 Reading Challenge - #15 - A Book about Feminism
Hello bookworms :)
Choosing a book for today´s category was a hard one...there are so many which sound sooo amazing
and I hardly could cut it down to just one...and there are many books which are on my to read list now ;)
So today's category is: A Book about Feminism.
And the decision was not necessarily hard because I´m a hardcore feminist but because they all just sound sooo great! ;)
And the decision was not necessarily hard because I´m a hardcore feminist but because they all just sound sooo great! ;)
How to Be a Woman
by Caitlin Moran
How to Be a Woman is a 2011 non-fiction memoir by British writer Caitlin Moran. The book documents Moran's early life (from teens until mid-thirties) including her views on feminism.
As of July 2014, it had sold over a million copies.¹
Again a little summary from goodreads:
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"Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do men secretly hate them? Caitlin Moran interweaves provocative observations on women's lives with laugh-out-loud funny scenes from her own, from adolescence to her development as a writer, wife, and mother."
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I´ll give it a 8 out of 10
I enjoyed reading this a lot, such a entertaining, hilarious and interesting read.
This whole category made me think a lot...and think about feminism it self..of cause ;) think about its place and role in today´s society and the heads of everyone, women and men and maybe even children...made me think about the huge differences in definitions and visions and about how different all the generations, cultures and ethnicitys think about this topic.
Everyday...almost...you hear something about this on the news online or wherever you are actually...
...way too much to go into detail on here...also this probably should not become a discussion about feminism, should it ;) its about books and should be fun only ;) nothing overly controversial.
I never saw myself as a hug feminist...of cause points like equality and fairness and such where thoughts and opinions of mine...of cause everyone should be equal...not only men and women btw...
I just...and that might sound bad...really strange or stupid to some...I sometimes think that this is a way to blown up topic when there are so many problems facing our world and society today...problems which so not make differences in gender...problems which face all of us as a human race...like hunger, homelessness, pollution and overpopulation.
So...just in general...because I felt the need of saying that ;) and of cause...don´t get me wrong being or thinking like a feminist is never too bad ;) and this book actually changed that view a lot, especially my own definition of feminism...if you actually want to speak of a definition.
If you would like to chat about it more ^^ there is a huuuge comment section below and I´d love to talk about it ^^
Ok and now back to the book ^^
The first few pages I really loved a lot. But it then took me some pages to get into the book again...as you know that´s always a bit of a downer for me...but you also now I don´t give up that easily ;)
All in all I get why this book is as popular as it is and I really enjoyed reading it and therewith I recommend it to those of you still looking for a book for this prompt ;)
The first few pages I really loved a lot. But it then took me some pages to get into the book again...as you know that´s always a bit of a downer for me...but you also now I don´t give up that easily ;)
All in all I get why this book is as popular as it is and I really enjoyed reading it and therewith I recommend it to those of you still looking for a book for this prompt ;)
For a little more inspiration and some alternatives ^^ and you know...I said there are too many amazing ones
In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman of color while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years and commenting on the state of feminism today. The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture. Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better.
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name. Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of women of color in the southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence
In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her own past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.
- ps. I´m planning this for promt #32 -
- ps. I´m planning this for promt #32 -
"In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poetic licence of a novelist, she makes a bid for freedom, emphasizing that the lack of an independent income, and the titular ‘room of one’s own’, prevents most women from reaching their full literary potential. As relevant in its insight and indignation today as it was when first delivered in those hallowed lecture theatres, A Room of One’s Own remains both a beautiful work of literature and an incisive analysis of women and their place in the world. This Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf features an afterword by the British art historian Frances Spalding. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure."
Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir’s pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as it was sixty years ago, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come
Gloria Steinem—writer, activist, organizer, and one of the most inspiring leaders in the world—now tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of how her early years led her to live an on-the-road kind of life, traveling, listening to people, learning, and creating change. She reveals the story of her own growth in tandem with the growth of an ongoing movement for equality. This is the story at the heart of My Life on the Road.
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
With humor and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century—one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviors that marginalize women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own experiences—in the U.S., in her native Nigeria, and abroad—offering an artfully nuanced explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women and men, alike. Argued in the same observant, witty and clever prose that has made Adichie a bestselling novelist, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman today—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists
...like I said there are so many ;)
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
With humor and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century—one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviors that marginalize women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own experiences—in the U.S., in her native Nigeria, and abroad—offering an artfully nuanced explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women and men, alike. Argued in the same observant, witty and clever prose that has made Adichie a bestselling novelist, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman today—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists
...like I said there are so many ;)
and even more inspiration?
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
I also got a lot of inspiration from the "Our Shared Shelf "Group on goodreads which is Emma Watsons book club all about feminism ^^
Which book did you choose for this category?
Did you read How to be a woman? And what do you think about it?
With lots of love
♥♥♥
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