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I have updated my 101 Primer since its original posting two months ago. Nothing has been deleted, but more links have been added (mostly to communities), as well as a new section on "Race and Fandom."

The links to RaceFail posts are by no means even remotely exhaustive, but I tried to pick the ones I thought most appropriate for a 101 primer.

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I purchased the following today, for $.50 a piece!

A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly
Fever Season by Barbara Hambly
A Hunger for Home: Louisa May Alcott's Place in American Culture by Sarah Elbert
Toward a Recognition of Androgyny by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Writing and Sexual Difference edited by Elizabeth Abel
The Wounded Woman by Linda Schierse Leonard
Beyond Anger: On Being a Feminist in the Church by Carolyn Osiek, R.S.C.J.

Doesn't that last one sound amazing?! From the back cover:

What happens to a woman who has a deep faith and ardent commitment to her Church, and yet who because of her honesty and openness to truth becomes more and more convinced of the validity of the feminist critique of insitutional religion?

They must undergo a conversion which will transform them. It consists in embracing the cross, not as passive victims, but as free agents capable of sustaining the liberating and redemptive suffering that is necessary in order that their continuing presence in the Church can effect needed changes according to the pattern of the Gospel.

Comments

[abmann.livejournal.com]

Which Church? Catholic?

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

Yes!

I think that usually when it's capitalized, unless otherwise specified, "Church" refers to the Catholic Church. Of course, I could be wrong!

But this book (and my own issues) are both specifically about the Catholic Church.

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

That last book does sound good. I ordered a copy from Amazon.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

Hopefully it is good! Given the premise, it will either make me chuck it against the wall or love it to pieces.

[were-duck.livejournal.com]

Ooooo, I'm excited to hear your thoughts on the Catholic feminist one! AND what you think of Female Man , because that book is hilarious and out there and I have a special place in my heart for it.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Thirded on the Catholic book. Me, I want to hear what you think about the Heilbrun, because I adore both her and that book in particular.