Discussions & Speakers
Book Discussions
Other Discussions
Book Discussions
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
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
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"
"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.
"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"
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.
"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"
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..
" A FEMINIST MANIFESTO IN 15 SUGGESTIONS"
" A FEMINIST MANIFESTO IN 15 SUGGESTIONS"
" A FEMINIST MANIFESTO IN 15 SUGGESTIONS"
For the May General Membership Meeting, May 28, we will be discussing two books:
"A Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions" and
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"
For the May General Membership Meeting, May 28, we will be discussing two books:
"A Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions" and
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"
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.
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?
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
by Michelle Obama
by Melinda Gates
A Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
by Sylvia Plath
by Virginia Woolf
by Bell Hooks
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
by Bell Hooks
by Kate Bornstein
by Roxane Gay
by Louisa May Alcott
by Rebecca Solnit
by Audre Lorde
How We Get Free: Black the Cobahee River Collective
edited by Keeanga -Yamahtta Taylorand
by Janet Mock
by Audre Lorde
by Angela Carter
Writings of Radical Women of Color In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker
by Eve Ensler
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
by Alice Walker
by Margaret Atwood
by Angela Y. Davis
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
edited by Glory Edim
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