#feminism books

[queen-paladin]

I love you hated female characters. I love you female characters who are flawed. I love you female characters who mess up and try to do the right thing after. I love you female characters who get the undeserved vitriol from fans. I love you female characters who fans completely condemn because of one mistake they made. I love you female characters who fans completely condemn because of one mistake they made as a child. I love you female characters who people blame for ripping apart their ships instead of the larger forces that be. I love you female characters who get all the hate as the male characters who do worse in canon get absolutely none. I love you female characters who get hated on because they told a man “no.”

#feminism #books #female characters #literature #theatre #Amy March #if you can think of any let me know #Sansa Stark #Briony Tallis #cosette fauchelevent #Christine Daae #Lily Evans #nesta archeron #Georgiana Dymov #George Dymov #elain archeron #edwina sharma

[ur-daily-inspiration]

#words #quotes #books #book quotes #love #beauty #dark academia #light academia #aesthetic #chaos academia #books and libraries #motivation #inspiration #vintage #relationship #feminism #mental health #positive

[bluedietcoke]

y’all love the morally gray, snarky, grief stricken characters until it’s a woman. i’ve seen so much discourse regarding female characters who display the exact same character traits as male leads and are criticized for it while the men are praised. let women be cruel and vindictive. let them deal with their grief and trauma in destructive ways. let them be real. give them the same treatment you would give to your favorite male love interest.

#nesta archeron #aelin galythinius #manon blackbeak #ya fantasy #amren #bryce quinlan #zoya nazyalensky #jude duarte #sjmaas #book women #juliette cai #fuck the patriarchy #feminism

[gyudons]

happy international women’s day! apologise to a woman today

#diary of a wimpy kid #international women’s day #iwd #iwd 2023 #feminism #women #books #comics

[liberaljane]

Ban Bigotry, not Books.

digital illustration of a pile of books that read, 'ban bigotry not books’ There’s a cat sitting on top.

#book bans #feminism #feminist #education #graphic #education justice #queer issues

[genderkoolaid]

reading abt pauli murray..... forget he should've been at the club. he should've been on t

#m. #also kind of pissed that ppl have described his identity as ''he ended up identifying as female!'' #and then reading a book on him basically go #yeah when hrt was finally available to people asking for it it would have threatened his career and he couldnt afford that #but god forbid people recognize transmascs involvement in feminism

[tygerland]

Marilyn Monroe 1955, by Eve Arnold.

#marilyn monroe #1950s #books #james joyce #bookworm #icons #lit #ulysses #academia #movies #old hollywood #retro #literature #hollywood #feminism #history #reading #lifestyle #bookish #culture #eve arnold #📸

[sol-em-gemeos]

O (possível) 🫠comodismo🫠 em livros de feminismo

Esse foi um incômodo que senti ao ler a graphic novel “Mulheres na luta: 150 anos em busca de liberdade, igualdade e sororidade” por Marta Breen e Janny Jordahl - mas é algo que me incomoda em >alguns< outros livros feministas introdutórios. “Mulheres na luta” tem a proposta de apontar algumas lutas pelos direitos de meninas e mulheres (e pessoas afab também) nos últimos 150 anos ao redor do mundo. E nesse quesito, ele cumpre seu propósito. Apesar de eu possuir algumas ressalvas em como é bastante focado na luta de mulheres estadunidenses e apenas menciona a luta de pessoas LGBTs e pessoas negras. Obviamente, tecerei comentários nas book redes sobre todas as minhas ressalvas (essas e outras) 👀 De todo modo, enquanto li esse quadrinho, vi um tom de comodismo que não acho que deveria ser feito. Não que precise terminar a história em tristeza e/ou raiva, mas terminar falando categoricamente “não há dúvida de que o mundo é um lugar melhor para as mulheres hoje” e “devagar e sempre, vamos progredindo” é positivo demais… Esse tipo de frase me dá a impressão de conter as emoções e as lutas, assim como fingir que não há direitos sendo cerceados em todo o mundo. Além disso, dá a ilusão de que avanços sociais são naturais de acontecer conforme o tempo passa- quando, na verdade, como diria Simone Beauvoir: “Nunca se esqueça que basta uma crise política, econômica ou religiosa para que os direitos das mulheres sejam questionados. Esses direitos não são permanentes. Você terá que manter-se vigilante durante toda a sua vida.” Inclusive, há direitos tidos como “conquistados” nessa graphic novel lançada em 2018 (!) já foram cerceados…

https://www.instagram.com/p/CgwmucMLioa/

#mulheres na luta #graphic novel #feminismo #comodismo em livros feministas #opinião #feminism books #books

[belle-keys]

I hate how the booktokification of the “unhinged woman” genre has completely reduced the concept of female rage to just “girlboss” without taking seriously how important it is to unequivocally portray female rage.

Throughout the history of literature, we’ve been given countless instances of women in despair and in sadness but save for a few writers (take Euripides, for example), we’ve rarely ever been given angry women who aren’t the villains or the foil for the perfect poised passive princess. Female rage has constantly been subdued and erased or warped into “she’s just batshit crazy” in pretty much every society.

And now that publishing and media marketing has reduced women showing rage in books to the “white hypersexual girlboss with a knife”, instead of uplifting the way women are allowed to have more dimension and sympathy in their visible anger than ever in literature, the media still isn’t taking this subgenre seriously.

#female rage isn’t even supposed to be ‘wow so cool’ #it’s JARRING it’s CONTRARY to traditional womanhood #stop reducing it to just ‘unhinged lol’ #and stop whitewashing it too #books and literature #books #boy parts #eileen #the poppy war #a certain hunger #gone girl #medea #ottessa moshfegh #gillian flynn #bunny mona awad #nightbitch #female rage #unhinged women #feminism #feminist #intersectional feminist #literature

[rockingtheorange]

*Swears*

*proceeds showing the most heart-warming child-punching kick-feetting smile in the Milky Way*

(It's also how I reply to people telling me I've watched RWRB too many times)

#we need the audiobook #my feminism told me its going to sleep on the highway #god save the royals #so we can have an interational cake scandal one day #rwrb movie #nicholas galitzine #red white and royal blue #rwrb #firstprince #henry fox mountchristen windsor #taylor zakhar perez #alex claremont diaz #rwrb book

[jstor]

A post from @asksecularwitch inspired us to do a quick search on JSTOR about witches, and we discovered Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature, an open access book by Justyna Sempruch.

Through a critical re-reading of feminist texts, Sempruch develops a new concept of the witch, one that challenges traditional gender-biased theories linking it either to a malevolent "hag" on the margins of culture or to unrestrained "feminine" sexual desire.

Image: "We Are The Daughters Of The Witches You Didn't Burn," from St Lawrence University's Street Art Graphics collection on JSTOR.

#witches #feminism #gender roles #research #academic research #open access books #open access #jstor

[balkanradfem]

have you read ‘kim ji-young, born 1982’ ?

i just watched the movie based on it and i can’t stop crying. I read that this book was what launched the 4B movement in korea. So i wanted to see it because it takes a lot to radicalize the average woman. No matter how much evil men do, the average woman tries to believe in men’s humanity. So the fact that this book alone radicalised so many women made me think it had to be phenomenal. And it was. I cried a lot. I think every woman should watch it before getting married. There’s no words to explain this movie. It’s painful to watch because it’s relatable but i think every girl should watch it so she doesn’t fall into men’s trap.

No, I haven't read it. Sharing your message for other feminists!

#kim ji young #born 1982 #book rec #feminism

[ur-daily-inspiration]

#words #quotes #books #book quotes #love #beauty #dark academia #light academia #aesthetic #chaos academia #books and libraries #motivation #inspiration #vintage #relationship #feminism #mental health #positive

[katyswrites]

You guys already know what I’m going to fucking say…

#is this what it feels like when real authors get their books made into films #asking for a friend #what the FUCK #I need him in a way that’s soooo concerning for feminism

[liberaljane]

Support Your Local Library!

Here’s 3 easy ways to get started: 1.) Get a library card (it’s free and usually just requires proof of residency!) 2.) Attend your local library’s events and programming. 3.) Advocate for increased support and funding. 

Digital illustration of a redhead fem with cat eye glasses wearing a green sparkly dress. She's leaning on a bookcart next to a tuxedo cat holding a book that reads, 'support your local library.' Behind her are books with titles that are commonly banned in schools.

#art #feminism #feminist #support your local library #library #library cat #cat illustration #tuxedo cat #banned books #book bans #libraries #reading #public library #feminist art #education #education justice

[guulabii]

susan sontag, on women

#susan sontag #on women #literature #beauty #oppression #words #book #essays #feminism