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lizbethborden · 5 months
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Hi again! Yeah, from your bookshelf! You seem well informed and I wanna know the type of stuff you read and might recommend. I don't even know what to tell you for my interests because I feel like I'm just begining. Sorry I'm young and dumb still haha.
#1 you're not dumb and #2 nothing to apologize for :)
Here's some books I've got on my shelves or that I've read:
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, Laura Bates
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, Katha Pollitt
Women, Race, & Class, Angela Davis
American Girls, Nancy Jo Sales
Lesbian Culture: An Anthology, eds. Julia Penelope and Susan J Wolf
Lesbian Studies, Margaret Cavendish
Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall
Against White Feminism, Rafia Zakaria
Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together, eds Joan Nestle and John Preston
Another Mother Tongue, Judy Grahn
Aimee & Jaguar, Erica Fischer
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought, ed. Briona Simone Jones
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
The Mary Daly Reader, eds. Jennifer Rycenga and Linda Barufaldi
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, eds. Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, George Chauncey Jr.
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society, Cordelia Fine
Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Father's Tongue, Julia Penelope
The Resisting Reader, Judith Fetterley
The Double X Economy, Linda Scott
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, ed. Roxane Gay
Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists, Joan Smith
Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin
The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women, Scott Stern
The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory, Marilyn Frye
Only Words, Catharine A. Mackinnon
Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution, Jennifer Block
Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts, Anne Llwellyn Barstow
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, Peggy Orenstein
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado-Perez
Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Values, Sarah Lucia Hoagland
We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement, Andi Zeisler
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, Adrienne Rich
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, Adrienne Rich
Feminism, Animals, and Science: The Naming of the Shrew, Lynda Birke
The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Susan Rubin Suleiman
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldua
Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery, Virginia L Blum
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins
Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality, Gail Dines
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Susan Faludi
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Marilyn French
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, eds. Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua
Seeing Like a Feminist, Nivedita Menon
With Her Machete In Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians, Catriona Reuda Esquibel
The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture, Bonnie J. Morris
Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall, Christopher Nealon
The Persistent Desire: A Butch/Femme Reader, ed. Joan Nestle
The Straight Mind and Other Essays, Monique Wittig
The Trouble Between us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement, Winifred Breines
Right-Wing Women, Andrea Dworkin
Woman Hating, Andrea Dworkin
Why I Am Not A Feminist, Jessica Crispin
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women, Leila J Rupp
I tried to avoid too many left turns into my specific interests although if you passionately want to know any of those, I can make you some more lists LOL
I would suggest picking a book that sounds interesting and using the footnotes and bibliography to find more to read. I've done that a lot :) a lot of my books have more sticky tabs or w/e in the bibliography than in the text so I don't lose stuff I'm interested in.
Hope this helps!
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badthoughtsbegone · 2 years
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medusanevertalks · 4 years
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“I observed the rhinoplasty of an eighteen-year-old girl whose preoperative nose appeared, well, uneventful. It was small, regular in shape, no humps, no bulges. I felt surprised. As it turned out, another surgeon had refused to operate. I can’t imagine anyone twenty years ago performing surgery on this girl’s nose. No, she didn’t have Candice Bergen’s nose, or Christy Turlington’s, or anyone with that very narrow hyper-AngloSaxonized nose that registers perfect on the American aesthetic meter. She had a regular nose. But its failure to be paradigmatic, a “model” nose, somehow disturbed her enough to have it operated on.    This is normal. Twenty years ago the attempted refinement of normal features into perfect ones would have been the province of actors — not ordinary people, who would never expect to be evaluated so closely.”
— Virginia L Blum, Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery; 2003
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"[H]er mother made the appointment, told her to get ready for the appointment, drove her to the appointment, and explained at length to the surgeon what she wanted for her daughter’s nose while the daughter sat in an abstracted silence as if not there or as if just accompanying her body part, her infamous nose. They’ve told me that you need to get her alone so she tells you what she wants for her own nose. They don’t consider that she might want nothing. [Surgeons] see the defect from the other side of the room. The defect [...] hails them, flags them down, implores their assistance. They see, in other words, the need for surgery. They don’t recognize the daughter’s need to be sent home, surgery-free. In part, this has to do with their construction of a particular kind of reality populated with bodies requiring correction."
Virginia L. Blum (2003). Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery.
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letterful · 3 years
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(don’t reblog) i’ve been thinking about the beauty industry (prompted by the discussion that crossed my dash yesterday, the perpetual & not-as-civil discourse happening over on twitter, as well as Heather Widdows’ Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal and Virginia L. Blum’s Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery), as one does, and... frankly, i think we should aim to criticise the beauty industry (and don’t get me wrong, it’s more than deserving of all the criticism and hatred it receives) without accusing those who—for lack of a better word—succumb to the standards enforced by it of betraying the cause (unless they actively shill for it, like all those instagram influencers; but then again, i consider them an inherent part of the industry, not its victims). i doubt that anybody can claim to be truly and completely immune to societal pressure (besides, severe body dysmorphia is not something i would wish on anyone), so suggesting that people who starve themselves to get thinner, or spend thousands of dollars on skincare or dental work, or even let someone cut their face open and remove parts of it, all just to lessen this mental burden, are hurting anybody except themselves is... bizarre. (and smugly “advising” them to work on their internalised misogyny/racism/fatphobia is neither the solution to their body image issues—they’re too deeply rooted for that—nor the feminist praxis that people on here seem to think it is.) we’re all in this hell together, and while some of us are better equipped to cope with it than the others, it doesn’t necessarily grant them the moral high ground. 
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oceanstone · 2 years
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Nonfiction Books about Gender
Theory
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen Ghossee
Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Florence Given
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich
Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis
Woman's consciousness, man's world by Sheila Rowbotham
Gynecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism by Mary Daly
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl by Tiqqun
Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions Ed. Susan Shaw
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
History
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth about Extreme Misogyny and how it Affects Us All by Laura Bates
Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power by Sandra Bartky
Sociology
Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer
Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery by Virginia Blum
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers by Jude Doyle
White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who they Leave Behind by Koa Beck
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Estes
Justice, Gender, and the Family by Susan Moller Okin
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez
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cor-ardens-archive · 3 years
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Hey do you remember this quote you posted maybe about surgery creating a different surface for the body? How the “inside” of the body becomes its “outside?”?”?
i think i know the quote you mean, but i didn't post it. is it this one?
Surgery doesn't really seem to be about the body's interior, because the process, during which the inside becomes another outside, is ultimately topographical. There's no sense of revelation, the stunning moment of making visible what was hidden; rather, there's a realignment of what constitutes the surface.
Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery, Virginia L. Blum
i will reblog a post with the passage. if it's not this one let me know.
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Books
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality
Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women
Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics
Andrea Dworkin, Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women
Andrea Dworkin, Right Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females
Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War zone
Andrea Dworkin, Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women’s Liberation
Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality
Susan Faludi, Backlash
Sheila Jeffreys, Anticlimax: Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution
Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful cultural practices in the west
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and tagged #information
Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer, We are the weather: Saving the Planet begins at breakfast
Paul Shapiro, Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World
Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
Patrizia Romito, A deafening silence: Hidden violence against women and children
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Lynn Phillips, Flirting with Danger: Young Women’s Reflections on Sexuality and Domination
Kate Millet, Sexual Politics
Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men and #men as default
Hartmut Rosa, High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity and #social acceleration
Caroline Knapp, Appetites: Why Women Want
Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
Marya Hornbacher, Waiting
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Ethan Watters, Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
George Orwell, 1984
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
James Davies, Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
Virginia L Blum, Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery
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sumflora · 5 years
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do you have any book recs? (abt social theory & related) i rly like the excerpts you reblog & post
omg im so happy u enjoy them and yes i do! i’m in the process of building a recommended reading list rn but i’ll give u the short version
flesh wounds: the culture of cosmetic surgery, virginia blum - im only halfway thru this but it’s already completely changed my view of the cosmetic surgery industry. it’s such an essential read 
the beauty myth, by naomi wolf - pairs well with the above book and explains how beauty has been utilized as a tool to oppress women 
hunger, roxane gay - i just finished this recently and it was an emotionally difficult read (tw for rape, abuse, assault) but it gave me insight into fatphobia that i didn’t have before
the politics of reality, marilyn frye - the book that got me into feminist text! it’s a collection of essays that provide a foundational introduction to feminism. i can’t find an epub/pdf online but here’s one essay included in the book on oppression. there’s a passage about how chivalry undermines female agency and it fucked me up. in the best way
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jimintomystery · 5 years
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TNG: “Who Watches the Watchers”
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The Bronze-Age culture of Mintaka III knows nothing about spaceflight or life on other planets.  One of them, Liko, chances to discover a hidden Federation research facility, which has been damaged by equipment failure.  In the ensuing commotion, Liko is gravely injured and taken aboard the Enterprise for treatment.  Efforts to suppress his short-term memory fail, and Liko soon tells his village that he was brought back to life by a pantheon of gods ruled by “The Picard.”
A curious detail about this episode is the choice to portray the Mintakans as resembling Vulcans.  Star Trek heavily relies on the conceit (“Hodgkin’s Law”) of aliens that just happen to look like humans, but I believe this is the first time that reasoning has been extended to aliens that look like other, unrelated aliens.  I'm not sure the idea really added enough to this episode to be worth the potential confusion for casual viewers.  It’s pleasing to see the Mintakans apply empiricism to their predicament, but they didn’t have to have pointy ears and blunt bangs to do that.
Speaking of pointy ears, Riker and Troi employ the old “use cosmetic surgery to disguise ourselves as aliens” trick.  The idea that resembling an alien is as easy as visiting a 20th century television studio’s makeup department was introduced on the original Star Trek series, but sparingly--Kirk got some Romulan ears one time, but the other cases involved alien spies under very deep cover.  In the 1990s, though, Star Trek came to overuse this concept, with the implications becoming increasingly disturbing.  Characters would casually switch from one alien look to another as if it just meant switching prosthetic latex foreheads and not, y’know, carving off chunks of bone and/or grafting on new ones.
This episode is arguably Star Trek’s most damning indictment of religion, and belief in the supernatural altogether.  Captain Picard is obviously opposed to the Mintakans believing he’s a god, since it’s not true and they shouldn’t have encountered him in the first place.  But beyond that, he clearly would not approve of the Mintakans adopting supernatural belief of any kind, with or without alien meddling.  I can’t say I agree with that position, but fortunately Picard doesn’t let it color his dealings with the Mintakans.  He is very clear that he is not a god, rather than proclaiming that there is no god.
The fuzzy definition of “god” opens up a plot hole here, in that Picard’s “proof” that he is not divine is to demonstrate that he is human.  Jean-Luc has a pulse, he is “flesh and blood,” he was born, and he can be wounded or killed.  He’s also named after two biographers of a certain miraculous fella who fits those same criteria, so try again.  Later he emphasizes that his people have no power to truly stop or reverse death, but that really only disqualifies him as a particular type of god.  I find all of this questionable because even if humanity someday transcended corporeal form and conquered death, humans still wouldn’t be gods for the Mintakans to worship, for the same reason Picard doesn’t fall on his knees when Q shows up. 
The best evidence that Picard isn’t a god is that he insists he’s not a god, a point which curiously sails over the heads of the Mintakans.  I guess I can conceive of a situation where a god would deny himself to his own worshippers, but my planet has had millennia to dwell on this sort of thing.  “The supreme being is using reverse psychology to test my faith” is an awfully advanced theological concept for a bunch of villagers who just invented religion this morning.
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“The surgeon is in many ways the legitimator of our otherwise embarrassing preoccupation with physical appearance. In the plastic surgeon’s office, you are in the place of unsuppressed narcissism — the place where your otherwise absurd concern with the angle of your chin will feel entirely “normal.” It will feel scientific even, as the surgeon measures and evaluates the arrangement of your features. He will make you feel that all your trivial little obsessions are absolutely justifiable — like any therapist, he’s there to support you. “You know what happens is that, as soon as people start talking about appearance, we immediately equate that with being shallow and superficial”, a surgeon remarked. Then he paused, looked at me, and pronounced the core truth of his professional life: “We can make that comment all we want. But the fact of the matter is, we live in a very visually oriented society. You can talk about all the inner beauty you want, but the fact of the matter is that appearance makes a tremendous difference insofar as sexual appeal or for jobs.”
— Virginia L Blum, Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery; 2003
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Little by little, we are all becoming movie stars — internally framed by a camera eye.
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“Some surgeons go on to say they won’t operate if the daughter says she doesn’t want the surgery. But, in general, the surgeons have surprised me. They’ve said the daughter wants the surgery, that’s why she’s there. Even though her mother made the appointment, told her to get ready for the appointment, drove her to the appointment, and explained at length to the surgeon what she wanted for her daughter’s nose while the daughter sat in an abstracted silence as if not there or as if just accompanying her body part, her infamous nose. They’ve told me that you need to get her alone so she tells you what she wants for her own nose. They don’t consider that she might want nothing. Better still, what if the surgeon were to say, Your nose is really fine; it suits your face. None of the surgeons told me this story. I was hoping for just one. But this isn’t what surgeons do. They see the defect from the other side of the room. The defect (or deformity, as they term it) hails them, flags them down, implores their assistance. They see, in other words, the need for surgery. They don’t recognize the daughter’s need to be sent home, surgery-free. In part, this has to do with their construction of a particular kind of reality populated with bodies requiring correction.”
— Virginia L Blum, Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery; 2003
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