Archive for September, 2009
Some Thoughts on Persepolis
Hi there! My name’s Amanda, but you may also know me as The Undomestic Goddess, or simply @TheUndomestic for those on Twitter. I just finished reading Persepolis (I got my hands on the book a little late) and would like to offer the following questions up for discussion: – In which instances is sex a [...]
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Tags: Persepolis
October Book Announcement
The readers have spoken! The results of the polls for October’s book selection marked Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center* by bell hooks as the winner. In this beautifully written and carefully argued work, hooks maintains that mainstream feminism’s reliance on white, middle-class, and professional spokeswomen obscures the involvement, leadership, and centrality of women of [...]
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Tags: bell hooks
Persepolis Discussion
Hi all. My name is Laura and I primarily blog at Adventures of a Young Feminist. I’m one of the book club bloggers and I thought I would get things started on the discussion surrounding our book for September, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Warning: there are some spoilers. Persepolis is the memoir in graphic novel [...]
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Tags: feminism, Iran, Persepolis, relationships
Voting for Book Selections
Posts about Persepolis will be up shortly (I think many of us bloggers had a delay in getting our hands on the book), but I wanted to update you all on the book selection process. Because a lot of us need to search through local bookstores and put books on hold in the library and [...]
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It’s history lesson time!
Hi there, radical readers! I’m Chally from Zero at the Bone and am one of your bloggers here. I’m thinking that probably most of us are still scrambling around for a copy of Persepolis or just starting to read. So while we’re getting going, here’s a post on some aspects of Ancient Persian history that [...]
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Tags: history, Iran
This month’s book
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
