I just hate to see the Feminism lightbulb out, so I thought I'd start us up a thread.

Just off the top of your head, what are some of your favourites in feminist media? i.e. movies, books, magazines, websites, whatever.

I'll put Inga Muscio's book Cunt at the top of my list, and I recently picked up Bitch magazine and really enjoyed it.

Toni Morrison and some of (author who wrote the colour purple whose name is totally escaping me at the moment)'s books are good on the fiction side, though some of her work strikes me as horribly essentialist.

My subscription to Ms. is alternately enlightening and vapid.

It might have been a blip, I guess.

It's Alice Walker you're thinking of. I think she's fabulous. And ditto for Morrison, though some works are better than others, of course. My favourite is Paradise and my least favourite is Beloved, but it's hard to say whether that's based on the novel alone or the blessed awful movie based on it.

Reading Statistics Canada's summary of families where both partners work outside the home, (where 2/3 of the women have partners who do no domestic work or child care); another remaining 30% who do most of the work and whose husbands "help"' and a measly 10% whose husbands take an equal share of domestic work and child care. In my view, this means that 90% of women are abused. Abuse is more than beating or name calling. I believe that men who do not share 50% of the work (thus taking more than their fair share of leisure time) are abusers.

Magnificent sentence. I try to read it as magnificently satirical, although ... It is also a great model to use if you're teaching students about periodic sentence structure.

I shot Andy Warhol is the bio-pic on Valerie Solanis (spelling?), the woman who did shoot Andy Warhol, and who founded SCUM (the society for cutting up men). Starred Lili Taylor as Solanis. Almost inevitably the movie veered from the really interesting stuff (Solanis' attempts to eke out a living and build her society) to focus more on Warhol's fame - it starts to feel like Solanis is a secondary chracter, which if better handled could have made some great points, but it just all kind of fell apart (I have to say it - like Michelle's bread, it started really well, but ended up half baked with smoke streaming out of it).

And since skdadl brought it up, here is the first sentence of the SCUM manifesto:

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Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.

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