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Discussions & Speakers

Book Discussions

Other Discussions

Book Discussions

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Every month we have a book discussion related to feminism, racism, climate change and any one of our other issues. When we have a speaker or something else of import, we may delay a book discussion to the following month.

See below.

speakers

Other Discussions

Book Discussions

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The Chapter likes to have speakers on our issues so we can learn more about them or what is happening around them. We only have speakers when we are assured there will be enough members.

Other Discussions

Other Discussions

Other Discussions

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The Chapter has other discussions and learning at each meeting as time permits. They range from Bylaws review, to event and action planning.

Jim Crow - White Fragility - Talk About Race

"The New Jim crow: MASS iNCARCERATION IN AN AGE OF COLOR BLINDNESS"

"The New Jim crow: MASS iNCARCERATION IN AN AGE OF COLOR BLINDNESS"

"The New Jim crow: MASS iNCARCERATION IN AN AGE OF COLOR BLINDNESS"

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"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in The Age of Color Blindness" is a tour de force. It is as valid now as it was 10 years ago. Unfortunately, we have made little progress on mass incarceration of Black men and boys since it was first released.

This book is dense, full of facts and quality research. We are shooting or locking up our 'hated' minority "and then making them convicts and felons who are OK to hate and keep out of society.

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"White Fragility"

"The New Jim crow: MASS iNCARCERATION IN AN AGE OF COLOR BLINDNESS"

"The New Jim crow: MASS iNCARCERATION IN AN AGE OF COLOR BLINDNESS"

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Charlotte Kendall, a speaker on "White Fragility", led us in a discussion of the book and its key points. It is a book that deals with  uncomfortable issues like white privilege and that we are all racists. We have to strive to be Antiracists (See "How To Be an Antiracist:).


CLICK HERE FOR RACE-RELATED BOOKS.



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"So You Want To Talk About RACE"

"The New Jim crow: MASS iNCARCERATION IN AN AGE OF COLOR BLINDNESS"

" A FEMINIST MANIFESTO IN 15 SUGGESTIONS"

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Whites have to educate whites on racism and factors of race.. Blacks shouldn't have to educate us. They have tried for hundreds of years. And, there are innumerable good books that deal with our awful history of race and racism. We will be discussing "So You Want To Talk About Race" at our April 23rd General Membership meeting.. 

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" A FEMINIST MANIFESTO IN 15 SUGGESTIONS"

" A FEMINIST MANIFESTO IN 15 SUGGESTIONS"

" A FEMINIST MANIFESTO IN 15 SUGGESTIONS"

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For the May General Membership Meeting, May 28, we will be discussing two books: 


"A Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions" and 

"We Should All Be Feminists".


For a preview of "A Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions" click here

"WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS"

" A FEMINIST MANIFESTO IN 15 SUGGESTIONS"

"WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS"

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For the May General Membership Meeting, May 28, we will be discussing two books: 


"A Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions" and 

"We Should All Be Feminists".


For a preview of "We Should All Be Feminists" click here. 


SEE BELOW FOR FEMINIST BOOKS



POSSIBLE NEXT BOOKS

" A FEMINIST MANIFESTO IN 15 SUGGESTIONS"

"WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS"

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The book we will read for our June Meeting (2nd in our series of 3 Feminist books) are , "The Moment of Lift" by Melinda Gates. Please email greateronow@gmail.com with any suggestions to conduct a future book discussion at a General Membership meeting. Any book that addresses one of our Chapter issues that you believe is a significant book, we want to hear about it.

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Book Discussions

We have discussed 

"The New Jim Crow--Mass Incarceration in an Age of Color Blindness", with Debbie Deland


"White Fragility" with Charlotte Kendall


"So You Want to Talk About Race"


Upcoming are 

,"The Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions" 

and "We Should All Be Feminists".

What book would you like to read and discuss?


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Books With a feminist perspective

Books with a feminist perspective. Not in any order

Click here for race-related books.

Please email us to add to either list greateronow@gmail.com 


Becoming

 by Michelle Obama


The Moment of Lift

by Melinda Gates


A Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


We Should All Be Feminists

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath


A Room of One’s Own

by Virginia Woolf 


The Yellow Wallpaper

by  Charlotte Perkins Gilman 


Feminism is for Everybody 

by Bell Hooks 


Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

by Bell Hooks


Gender Outlaw 

by Kate Bornstein 


Bad Feminist Essays

by Roxane Gay


Little Women 

by Louisa May Alcott 


Men Explain Things to Me 

by Rebecca Solnit  


Sister Outsider 

by Audre Lorde 


How We Get Free: Black the Cobahee River Collective

edited by Keeanga -Yamahtta Taylorand


Redefining Realness 

by Janet Mock 


Sister Outsider 

by Audre Lorde 


The Bloody Chamber 

by Angela Carter 


This Bridge Called My Back

Writings of Radical Women of Color In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker 


The Vagina Monologues 

by Eve Ensler


In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens 

by Alice Walker


The Handmaid’s Tale 

by Margaret Atwood


Women, Culture, and Politics 

by Angela Y. Davis 


Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

edited by Glory Edim



The Golden Notebook 

by Doris Lessing 


Woman and Nature
by Susan Griffin  

Moving Beyond Words
by Gloria Steinem
 

Sewing Good Seeds
(Susan B. Anthony biography) by Tom Edwards  

Bright Star in a Big Sky
(biography of Jeannette Rankin, our first congress woman ever)  

Women's Ways of Knowing
by Field Belenky, McVicker Clinchy, Rule Goldberger, & Mattuck Tarule

The Challenge of Local Feminists
(Women's Movements in Global Perspective) edited by Amrita Basu
 
Man Made Language and Women of Ideas (And What Men Have Done to Them)
by Dale Spender

Reflections on the Archetypal Feminine
(women in myth and literature) by Nor Hall

The Feminization of American Culture
by Ann Douglas

By a Woman Writt
(women's literature of six centuries) edited by Joan Goulianos

The Female Eunuch
by Germaine Greer

The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir

The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan

The Vindication of the Rights of Woman
(1791) by Mary Wollstonecraft 

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