Originally published in French (in two volumes) as Culottées This was such a great read! I was familiar with Bagieu’s work from back when she had her blog (Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante) but had never read one of her books. Needless to say, I am going to remedy that ASAP. Brazen is a collection of graphic bios of women who refused to live according to the rules imposed by society. Some of them are very famous, some of them have been […]
The rhetoric of feminism with its emphasis on resistance, rebellion, and revolution created an illusion of militancy and radicalism…
…that masked the fact that feminism was in no way a challenge or a threat to capitalist patriarchy. This is among the concluding statements to bell hooks’s 1981 text Ain’t I a Woman, which takes the question asked by Sojourner Truth in front of a group of white feminists in 1851. By asking this question, but also coupling that question with specific evidence based in ontological thinking as opposed of prescriptive or descriptive discussions of attributes, qualities, and behaviors (that is: being a woman as a […]
the last of God’s children in a godless world
New Jerusalem is a non-fiction book covering the history of a militant and apocalyptic breakaway Christian sect in the early Reformation. The Melchiorites, named after their founding preacher, were early Anabaptists. A radical offshoot of Lutheranism, the Anabaptists were viewed as heretics by mainstream Catholics and suffered significant persecution. The Melchiorites sought sanctuary in the Lutheran-friendly city of a Munster. A small group of influential men put out a call for the poor to come to Munster for rebaptism as Melchiorites. More appealingly, they also promised […]
This book was the Big Snooze
So, I really don’t know why I picked yet another self-help book, but here we are. Again, Amazon was pumping this book at me, and it seemed more promising than Girl Wash Your Face and I requested them both from the library. They both delivered to my account at the same time and I’m now listening to them back to back. While this book (barely) compares favorably to Girl Wash Your Face, I just couldn’t bring myself to finish it. I’m taking power of my […]