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Not Oprah’s Book Club: Out of the Vinyl Deeps
Feminist rock critic Ellen Willis testing an album by dancing in front of the mirror. In 1968, when Ellen Willis was 26 years old and pop music criticism was barely even a thing yet, she was hired as The New Yorker’s very first rock critic. One of the only women in the male-dominated scene, Willis [...]
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Not Oprah’s Book Club: Blueprints for Building Better Girls
The girls and women who animate the stories of Elissa Schappell are so real, so familiar, that there were times that reading her work almost frightened me. It wasn’t so much a clever turn of phrase–although there’s no question that Schappell can write her ass off; it was more the texture and aliveness of her [...]
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Not Oprah’s Book Club: Sister Citizen
We at Feministing have long been fans of Melissa Harris-Perry who has become a voice for young women in politics and specifically for young women of color who were tired of feeling invisible in political conversations. Her political analysis is on point, but she is also unconventionally honest, which sometimes makes her controversial. And she is not [...]
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Not Oprah’s Book Club: F’em!
Jennifer Baumgardner, co-author of Manifesta and Grassroots, and sole-author of Looks Both Ways and Abortion & Life, has a new book out. It’s actually a collection of essays she’s published over the years, with updated epilogues, spliced with interviews with feminists Baumgardner admires. The book is boldly titled F’em! Goo Goo, Gaga and some Thoughts [...]
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Not Oprah’s Book Club: Agorafabulous! Dispatches From My Bedroom