What are you reading?

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I took a photo of my current feminist reading for a weird thread that went poof.
So I'm starting a thread instead.

I'm really into Liz Stanley and Patricia Hill Collins just now.

I also want to see if I can work Marilyn Frye into an essay I'm writing.

Not anything feminist st the moment. I decided it was time to attempt Oliver Twist.

My feminist are all about women who did things, not theory. I hate theory.

Currently I am reading “Why women are blamed for everything” by Dr Jessica Taylor

Before that

“We should all be feminists” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Next

“The Origins of Totalitarianism” by Hannah Arendt

After that Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell which I hope will be light relief!

I've got Jessica Taylor's book on my to-read list.
I love Hannah Arendt for conceptualising violence.

I stopped reading books by men for about 10 years (so I could catch up on all the ones by women I'd missed) but am currently reading fiction by men - Bernard Cornwell for escapism and Robert Tressel's Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.

Then probably back to women again, mostly.

I want to re-read Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions then the next two in the trilogy

Cynical Theories; Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsey
The Coming of Neo Feudalism; Joel Kotkin
Despised; Paul Embery
The Five; Hallie Rubenhold
Mistakes Were Made (but not by me); Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson
The Madness of Crowds; Douglas Murray

Snap! I enjoy reading The Last Kingdom series by Bernard Cornwall for escapism but I usually prefer to read books written by women.

Talkin' up to the white woman (indigenous women and feminism) by Aileen Moreton-Robinson

I finished Caitlin Moran's More Than A Woman a couple of days ago. Most of it was beautifully written and thoroughly enjoyable, but there was some rubbish about girls being able to get their colours done if they feel ugly, a bit of poor men whining that didn't actually address her own theory and a really annoying pile of bollocks where apparently she thinks us awful feminists with our polite, straight-talking opinions are worse than men dishing out rape threats.

Most recent books I've finished are Viv Albertine's memoir To Throw Away Unopened and Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage. Currently reading National Populism: the Revolt against Liberal Democracy. All interesting reads in their different ways.

I’m pretty uneducated about feminism and trying my best to catch up, so it’s good to see some books to look at. I’m limited for time, space and money so I’m really wary of choosing an author who then turns out to believe a load of stuff that I don’t believe.

Really annoyingly I’ve put my copy of Invisible Women down somewhere and I can’t find it. So I’m starting the JKR/RG Strike series I was bought for Christmas.

Currently reading Shattered: Modern Motherhood & the Illusion of Equality by Rebecca Asher

All the Andrea dworkin books are available as pdf online.
Life and Death or Letters from a war zone are great.
If you don't like them, sn0tnose, you're no worse off.
Gail dines uses them in her sociology courses.

I also love Marilyn Frye and usually you can find 'oppression' and 'separatism and power' online.

I'm currently getting into Dorothy Smith and Patricia Hill Collins but I started down the feminist reading rabbit hole about 11 years ago and I think if I had started with them I might have given up.

Just finished 2+2= 5 and the equality illusion. Invisible Women next.