Hi,
Introducing yourself over the internet to people you'll shortly be talking to in person seems a bit obscure to me (as it can be so easy to accidentally mislead people over the internet) so this will probably be pretty short! I'm also pretty rubbish at getting-to-know-you things because I can never sum anything up in three words let alone tell you my favorite animal or food starting with the first letter of my name. I'm a third year arts/law student which either tells you that I really, really enjoy libraries and doing a lot of late night reading, or that I make silly decisions.
Like most other people in our tute, I haven't done a lot of blogging. I'm more of what you'd call a 'lurker', who reads around without commenting. One blog I check out fairly regularly since I read a great book by Jessica Valenti is Feministing. I also really enjoyed following the Seventeen Magazine Project.
That's all from me...
Hey, I haven't read the book, but apparently there was a lot of criticisms about it by "women of colour" feminist bloggers. Have to hunt down the links for you.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point, there wasn't really much mention of women of colour, and I don't think same sex relationships got a huge amount of attention either. I think it was more intended to be a coffee table feminism book or a stealthy introduction to feminism rather than an all encompassing expose of gender relationships across the board. I also have a feeling that if the (white, middle class, heterosexual) author had tried to tackle those issues in any depth she would have faced criticism there too. IMO, books don't need to be everything to everybody...
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