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John McCain's a maverick. Supposedly.


Garth Brooks is a maverick:

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In The Science Question in Feminism, Sandra Harding provides a clear and thorough background in various feminist theories and their relationship with the field of science and, more importantly, makes a convincing argument that science must be interrogated by feminism just as the rest of our culture must be in order to create a more equitable and ( Read more... )

Reading this book immediately following hooks' first book, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism reveals how much a writer and theorist can develop in just a few years. Where Ain't I a Woman suffered because of underdeveloped points and undertheorized intersections of class with race and gender, Feminist Theory from Margin to Center shines. ( Read more... )

Written at about the same time as Angela Davis's Women, Race and Class, bell hooks' Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism covers much of the same ground (the historical exclusion of black women from the feminist movement and the connections between racism and sexism) but with a couple of major differences.

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Angela Y. Davis's Women, Race and Class (1983) is one of the best histories of the feminist movement I've ever read. Most such histories have limited their scope to a particular issue (e.g., reproductive rights, suffrage, housework) and to a particular constituency (women of a particular race or class), but Davis masterfully brings together issues ( Read more... )

Yes, I am still here, even though I haven't been posting. I've even been reading still; I just haven't felt much like writing these books up. I've been reading literary theory and analyses of science fiction and, quite honestly, it's not terribly interesting. So, those of you who actually read my summaries, you're not missing much ( Read more... )

Dan Simmons' Hyperion drew me in slowly but completely. Once I was drawn in to the world Simmons creates--through the combination of the stories of several pilgrims to the planet of Hyperion and the Time Tombs there (a mysterious and dangerous site)--I didn't want the book to end ( Read more... )

Sheri S. Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country is a fascinating exploration of the relationship and differences between men and women. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, The Gate to Women's Country presents a society in which men and women have two very different cultures. The women live inside walled cities, growing food for both the men and the ( Read more... )