I'm working on a paper about the reactionary and conformistic nature of pornography. Books include:
The Dialectic of Sex, the case for feminist revolution, Shulamith Firestone
Det kriminelle kjønn (the criminal gender), various authors.
Looking forward to this one, as it's a series of essays saying that female sexuality, and thus women in general, have been controlled both by denying that they possess an independent sexuality, and, hypocritically, by inventing an apparatus of legislature to control said non-existent sexuality.
Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art, Camille Paglia.
Female Chauvinist Pigs - Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, Ariel Levy.
And, if I have the time,
Drood, Dan Simmons
Strange Survivals: Some Chapters in the History of Man, S. Baring-Gould
mnem, Simon Stranger
Om Jesus (About Jesus), Jonas Gardell. Looks fun, a realistic archeological study of Jesus, not as an Aryan Super-Sayan Hippie, but as a toothless man suffering from malnutrition and looking like he's seventy.
The Dialectic of Sex, the case for feminist revolution, Shulamith Firestone
Det kriminelle kjønn (the criminal gender), various authors.
Looking forward to this one, as it's a series of essays saying that female sexuality, and thus women in general, have been controlled both by denying that they possess an independent sexuality, and, hypocritically, by inventing an apparatus of legislature to control said non-existent sexuality.
Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art, Camille Paglia.
Female Chauvinist Pigs - Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, Ariel Levy.
And, if I have the time,
Drood, Dan Simmons
Strange Survivals: Some Chapters in the History of Man, S. Baring-Gould
mnem, Simon Stranger
Om Jesus (About Jesus), Jonas Gardell. Looks fun, a realistic archeological study of Jesus, not as an Aryan Super-Sayan Hippie, but as a toothless man suffering from malnutrition and looking like he's seventy.
*MySmiley*
Indeed, I marry them in their unlawful bed, with an open heart I affirm the true right of any man and woman to their dark slobbering nights which are rare enough, and against which too many laws conspire.
Indeed, I marry them in their unlawful bed, with an open heart I affirm the true right of any man and woman to their dark slobbering nights which are rare enough, and against which too many laws conspire.
What are you reading in November?
- 03/11/2009 04:01:41 PM
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orhan pamuk's snow, and morrison's song of solomon. *NM*
- 03/11/2009 04:11:02 PM
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Mostly feminist theory, actually.
- 03/11/2009 04:23:59 PM
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Storm Front (by Jim Butcher) *NM*
- 04/11/2009 05:35:11 PM
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A Song for Arbonne was fantastic!
- 17/11/2009 08:08:41 PM
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It's pretty difficult to top Tigana. Song is pretty good though. *NM*
- 17/11/2009 08:24:21 PM
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I liked Song better than Tigana and thought Lions of Al-Rasan was better than both. *NM*
- 17/11/2009 08:36:17 PM
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Re: What are you reading in November?
- 04/11/2009 09:22:54 PM
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Hopefully:
- 04/11/2009 10:09:37 PM
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Finished the Virgil, now reading My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk. Interesting so far. *NM*
- 12/11/2009 10:52:51 PM
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So far...
- 12/11/2009 04:19:30 AM
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Have you read..
- 12/11/2009 06:54:44 PM
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Warbreaker also by Sanderson...
- 12/11/2009 08:08:48 PM
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An Autumn War
- 13/11/2009 01:46:46 AM
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