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Postby oneangrygirl » Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:58 am

I guess some slavery feels like freedom.
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Postby bitingbeaver » Thu Nov 10, 2005 12:13 pm

I have to get Pornified. We've already read Female Chauvenist Pigs, can't wait to get my hands on the others.
Thanks for the tip.
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Postby oneangrygirl » Thu Nov 10, 2005 2:03 pm

It rules! In a frightening way, of course.
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Postby oneangrygirl » Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:28 am

i have a gift card from discover with $15 left on it. what book should i buy?
i already have levy, paul, not for sale, russell.
what do i need in my feminist collection?
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Postby sam » Sun Mar 19, 2006 8:08 am

If you don't have "Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress" I highly recommend it. It's the best collection of serious international research on prostitution and it blows apart the ideas of "voluntary prostitution" and legalization as a useful model.

http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/book.html

If you mention the code at the Prostitution Research website you get 25% off the purchase.

This book is one of the top three I would recommend to anyone (Not for Sale and MacKinnon's Only Words are the other two Must Haves for every anti-pornstitution activists.)
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Postby Lost Clown » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:31 pm

awesome, I just ordered it
"One must care about a world one will never see." -Bertrand Russell

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow

"Pornography is to sex what McDonald's is to food." -Gail Dines
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Postby Lost Clown » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:36 pm

Oh and Not for Sale is great. Rape Relief did a lot of publicity about it. I love Vancouver Rape Relief, can I just say that. Rad fems abound.
"One must care about a world one will never see." -Bertrand Russell

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow

"Pornography is to sex what McDonald's is to food." -Gail Dines
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Postby Lost Clown » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:38 pm

*sigh* should have checked amazon first.

You can get Not for Sale and Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress for $35 if you buy them together at amazon.com.
"One must care about a world one will never see." -Bertrand Russell

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow

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Postby resisterance » Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:12 am

i wish that more radfem books were available online.. i do read chapters of books that are available online, and if i like them i buy them coz id rather read in bed or on the sofa. but having limited cash, i like to have a browse through first.

i have thought of scanning in the odd book chapter that i like and putting them up as pdf files. but obviously i dont want to piss off writers. personally i wouldve thought that allowing access to books this way would increase sales rather than harm them, just like if i d/l a tune and like it im more inclined to buy the album. this is especially true for non commercial music and books because without online access i would never get exposed to them in the first place.

where do you all stand on copyright/copyleft?

more info on copyleft: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft

i see access to texts online as similar to access through the library or shops. in a shop i can browse through a book, even sit and read a chapter, and from a library i get access for a month or so. the ones i like i can buy and have permanently. i buy almost all my books from amazon because of the cheaper prices and because my local bookshops, even the indie ones, dont stock much in the way of feminist texts. so accessing a text online for me is very much like browsing in a shop or borrowing from the library.
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Postby resisterance » Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:15 am

to add...

i have found old womens liberation books in second hand shops that arent in print or otherwise available to most people now, and mostly these books contain a selection of articles by different authors. would it be wrong to make the articles/chapters within available online now? if there is no way of contacting the authors, is it better to make the texts available to other readers or to respect copyright?
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Postby oneangrygirl » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:27 am

i bought the farley book from borders/amazon for like 19 bucks.
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Postby alyx » Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:32 pm

Genderberg has exploded since my operation. I'm going to plug it to anyone I know who'd be interested (which unfortunately isn't many people, because it's hard to be against pornstitution these days and people suck, but I'll find someone!)

Anyway, what did I come here for? (I need caffeine--it's early here and I'm always pressed for time, I really need someone to stick a drip in my arm so I can get my morning hit intravenously). Ah, yes. Books!

Has anyone heard of Sheila Jeffreys' new book 'Beauty & Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West?' (I know Laurelin has, 'cuz she wrote about it on her blog). I've got it and it rocks; it explains all about the sexism implicit in cutting up women's bodies (as in cosmetic surgery) to hew to male-approved beauty standards. It also draws an interesting paralell between labiaplatsy surgery and Female Genital Mutilation in Third World countries, and the hypocritical way Western liberals applaud the former but are repelled by the latter (there's lots of really horrific stuff in there, like a porn star with massively augmented breasts--weighing in at six kilos--who underwent increasing cosmetic surgery procedures as a form of performance art, so be warned if you're squeamish.)

There's also a discussion on the radical feminist opposition to transgenderism (I could post this part on the forum that dealt with it, but hey, two birds with one stone) where Jeffreys gives an example of how the MTF notion of womanhood is limited to either embracing 'Whore Chic' or a 1950's style of femininity (and in the case of the latter, the example is of a woman whose husband became a female, and the bio woman was the one who did all the housework, while the husband spent the day trying on frocks and painting his face.) The idea that there's certain behaviours that are called 'masculine' (and that women can't do unless they occupy a male body)is the crux of why radical feminists have been against trangenderism (and why they wanted to abolish gender, not do the pomo thing and create more expressions of it). I know that some of you are against this idea, I'm not completely for it myself, but if you want to know WHY older rad fems aren't all 'yay trans!', then this book explains it in no uncertain terms.

Anyway, it mostly deals with beauty practices and it's a great resource. Totally blows away any liberal fem bull notions of cosmetic surgery being all about choice & agency. I Heart Jeffreys. :)
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Postby sam » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:10 pm

Hey there, alyx! Good to see you. I do have to read that Jeffreys book, but right now I'm going through a fiction book by Gregory Maguire, the sequel to the terrific Wicked, named Son of a Witch. Too much radfem nonfiction all at once makes me go (#$@#!&%$%@, if you know what i mean.

vg1, I'm a big fan of "copyleft" and consider all my writings fair use. As the articles posted here attest, I mock the patriarchal concept of idea ownership and think sharing is caring.

i have thought of scanning in the odd book chapter that i like and putting them up as pdf files. but obviously i dont want to piss off writers.


I've thought the same. I'm a huge D.A. Clarke fan and think her essay "Prostitution for Everyone" in the Not For Sale book is the best essay on why pornstitution is inherently harmful and why the Left has abandoned women's rights. I want to scan all 50 pages of it and put it online because that essay is a brilliant bit of writing, but I don't want to infringe on anyone's rights.

if there is no way of contacting the authors, is it better to make the texts available to other readers or to respect copyright?


I say 'yes', post it, but that's just me. I take the risk reposting copyrighted articles here but that's different because USA Today can bite me and I actually care about radical feminist writers.
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Postby oneangrygirl » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:17 pm

where do you all stand on copyright/copyleft?


as you might guess, i get even more angry when people take my slogans and print them on t-shirts. except "well-behaved women" because that's licensed to laurel and there's nothing i can do about it. and my business name is trademarked with the government.
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Postby resisterance » Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:50 am

ive just this morning recieved a book via amazon, "speaking freely: unlearning the lies of the fathers' togues" by julia penelope. i got it sent from the US via amazon. it looks great.

on copyright:
if a book is old or out of print, i think making it available electronically not only exposes more people to the authors writing and ideas, but may even spur a reprinting, should it prove popular enough.

oag,
but your t shirts arent expensive and you attempt to address problems people may have affording them.
would you be pissed off if you saw your slogans used on a banner at a protest? if you see your slogans in print, quoted in an article for example, would you be ok with it as long as you were credited?

i really want to read "not for sale", but im waiting for a vastly reduced secondhand book to come on sale. i've not seen "not for sale" in any local bookshops and its not available in my library.

i'ld love to have better access to other feminist zines , particularly any from the 70's. sharing them electronically via pdf would be really great.
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NEW Books

Postby sunnysmiles » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:49 am

1) Are Women Human? & Other International Dialogues. Catherine A. MacKinnon.
Belknap/Harvard, $43.75.
With her usual piercing focus and provocative directness, celebrated
feminist scholar Catherine MacKinnon turns her sights on the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights to ask whether, according to its
internationally-recognised precepts, women have yet become human. Looking at
legal test cases from around the world, MacKinnon questions why the
international community has been so slow to recognise acts of war against
women (mass rape, genocide) as crimes against humanity, and she argues
eloquently for changes to existing power dynamics that would bring women
fully into their human rights.

2) WOW - this looks LOVELY! Get the pun? Hook-er - and guess what? You need a hook needle to crochet - as I recently learned... what a cute and sweet little play on words by the lovely folks at bitch!!

Stitch ‘N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker. Debbie Stoller. Workman, $21.95.
Do all your friends already own snuggly scarves, toasty cellphone holders
and chunky jumpers produced by your own fair hands? Have you mastered the
art of the needles and find yourself looking for a new challenge? Maybe it’s
time to get grappling with the hooks! From the woman who launched a new
generation of knitters comes this handy-dandy guide to crochet. Make your
granny proud as you stitch ‘n bitch together.
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Postby sunnysmiles » Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:26 am

Bumping cause no one talked about the Happy hooker - hmmm - maybe I should make it into an action....
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Postby oneangrygirl » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:43 am

i thought you were recommending this!
:shock:
i think debbie stoller works for bust, actually.
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Postby Lost Clown » Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:14 pm

She's an editor IIRC.

Gotta love Bust.i*


*that is a sarcasm point
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Postby resisterance » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:56 am

its a terrible title but i really fancy a look at the crochet book.. im well into knitting and want to give crochet a go, and the stitch n bitch books are quite good..

sorry :oops:
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