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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics.

Bu konu özelinde okuduğum ilk kitap. Bence kitap feminizim ile biraz olsun alakası olmayanlar için değil Başlamadan önce daha az teori ve kısa cümleler bekliyordum ama yanılmışım. Biraz meraktan ve biraz da kendimizi geliştirmek için okunabilecek bir eser. İyi yanı ise feminizimim dününü ve bugününü ele alarak karşılaştırmalar yapması ve konuları bölerek çok karıştırmadan biraz olsun basitce anlatması.  Amerikan toplumuna dair örnekler olsa da örnekler de anlaşılır diyebilirim. Feminizim konusunda kendinizi geliştirmek isterseniz başlangıç için iyi bir kaynak.

Ender Ahmet Yurt

Amr Khater 

Ethan Hussong

It many ways I felt like this book was eye-opening and enlightening for me. It helps to have many things that I feel like I knew sub-consciously brought out into plain and simple words that were (reasonably) well articulated. Over the 123 pages of this book I had 53 notes that I took on my own though of things that I wan't sure of. Things that didn't make sense to me, that I disagreed with, or that I felt needed further investigation or sources before they could be taken for truth.

If nothing else this book served as a great "jumping off" point for me into a more academic look into feminism and certainly opened the doors for me in wanting to have lengthy conversation about the topic. I know that this is subject, much like politics, can cause strong and immediate reactions and now my current two goals are to 1) Find a place to have a civil discussion about the topic where I can be allowed to disagree or question some of the assumptions or comments in this book and 2) Continue to learn more about it with other recommended books. My current list of upcoming titles on Feminism:

Female Chauvanist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
It's (Mostly) His Fault: For Women Who Are Fed Up and the Men Who Love Them
Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire

These titles came as a recommendation from a group of feminist women when asked what their recommendations of the best books for a straight white male were to read to get a better understanding of feminism. This list wasn't one that I randomly put together or that I picked because they seemed particularly appealing to me personally from the outset. I simply took the recommendations and decided to go ahead with reading them based on the recommendations. Feminism is for Everybody was the first suggestion that almost everyone made, and it seems to have served its purpose well. Even if I don't agree with everything in the book outright it has certainly sparked more thought on a regular basis since starting the book.