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The Happy Bodies reading list, including thoughts and reviews, is in progress here. Feel free to comment with suggestions!

A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer, Eve Ensler, ed.

Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by Bell Hooks

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States by Rickie Solinger
–Post: Is Choice the Right Question?

The Bigger the Better the Tighter the Sweater, Samantha Schoech and Lisa Taggart, ed.
–Post: Tight Sweaters: Navel Attire

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg.
–Book Review

Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy
–Post: PETA: blurg

“Good Girls”/”Bad Girls”: Women Sex and Power in the Nineties, Nan Bauer Maglin and Donna Perry, ed.
–Book Review

Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip-hop Feminism Anthology by Gwendolyn D. Pough.
–Book Review: Possibly the Greatest Book Ever

The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear, Paul Loeb, ed.

Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body by Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby

The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti
–Post: watch out for da sperminator. (and other constructions of sexuality)
–Post: Quick hit: The Politics of Purity
–Post: “Oral sex is the new goodnight kiss”

The Ultimate Guide to Sex & Disability: For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain and Illness by Cory Silverburg, Miriam Kaufman, and Fran Odette
–Book Review

Whipping Girl by Julia Serano.
–Post: Reconsidering Feminism

The Women and the Men by Nikki Giovanni

Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape, Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti, ed.
–Post: Fat objectification: Fetishism
–Post: Body Sovereignty

Also Check out Carleton’s Gender and Sexuality Center library.

Happy Bodies’s Book Club

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This project began in early 2009 when Becky sent Jill began to talk about bodies. We wanted to talk…

Books we’re currently reading

Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Femin…
by Cynthia Enloe
Start date: September 25, 2011

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