That's so awesome, congratulations!

Jessica,

Congratulations on that endorsement. Since we are slightly behind the eight ball in rates of publication etc in the great white north, I have only been able to recommend your book as complimentary reading to my students (though hope to eventually change that).

I'm a lead TA in a first year literature / cultural studies course, and my students cover all demographic bases, with the one commonality of never having had an exposure to academic feminism per se. I can echo the sentiments expressed by Hugo, when I tell you that my experience with student feedback is similar. More than a few young women, and men, have expressed an almost visceral connection to what you have written, often surprising themselves more than anyone.

I think there is merit in stating that the real substantive value one can place on a book would be in that books readability and application to a readers lived reality. I would suggest these types of responses speak very clearly to the objective value of your book. Congratulations on that!

Well done - you deserve it!! The book is brilliant =]

Don't put away the kleenex yet. A blogger named Holly at "The Pervocracy" just posted her thoughts after finishing FFF. You make a difference in the world, Jessica.

http://pervocracy.blogspot.com/2007/11/full-frontal-feminism.html

figleaf

congrats on the well deserved feedback!

i know that i have written this to you on myspace and such, but i will say it again:

that book, however "primary" some think it may be, really changed the way i looked at a lot of things. i was very much one of the "i am a not a feminist but..." people...and your book kind of brought it home for me. it kind of put definition on a lot of the frustrations i have had my whole life! it was a stepping stone for me...i followed it here, and from here to a whole world of feminism i didn't realize existed beyond the stereotypes!

now i pass it on to all of my friends whom i think might be as misguided as i once was. i know i already told you that i passed it on to my 18 year old cousin, who just started college this past fall, in aviation, a field in which she is one of only about a dozen females out of a few hundred in her class.

so, thank-you. your book really changed my view of myself, and i look forward to whatever you have next. it gave me a foundation to find something that i think i had all along and just didn't know. wherever the praise comes from, it is well deserved!

Hugo teaches at Pasadena City College.. I am from Pasadena! represent!