{"id":21654,"date":"2024-03-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pocolit.com\/?p=21654"},"modified":"2024-12-18T14:56:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T13:56:24","slug":"poco-lit-s-top-5-books-about-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pocolit.com\/en\/2024\/03\/08\/poco-lit-s-top-5-books-about-feminism\/","title":{"rendered":"poco.lit.\u2019s Top 5 books about Feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For Feminist Fight Day, we present some books in which feminism is a central theme and that have left a lasting impression on us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Priya Basil – In the we and now: Becoming a Feminist<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the book\u2019s two parts, \u201cFight\u201d and \u201cSubjects of Desire,\u201d Basil talks about her own politicization and analyses feminist dilemmas in the context of #MeToo. She also reflects on her co-creation of an issue of a leading fashion magazine with numerous other women who form a feminist circle of allies and actually have nothing to do with the fashion world. In some ways, Basil\u2019s book is a serious take on the often tongue-in-cheek statement \u201cI am a feminist, but \u2026\u201d in Deborah Frances-White\u2019s comedy show The Guilty Feminist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natasha A. Kelly – Schwarzer Feminismus: Grundlagentexte<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, Natasha A. Kelly published Schwarzer Feminismus: Grundlagentexte<\/em>, a collection of contributions by Black feminists with Unrast Verlag The book traces the development of the concept of intersectionality, which has increasingly become the focus of feminist debates in Germany in recent years. The majority of the selected essays were translated into German for the first time for this volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rafia Zakaria – Against White Feminism<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the publication of Against White Feminism<\/em>, Rafia Zakaria was accused of dividing the movement in English-speaking regions. With her book, however, she shakes the foundations of a movement that has always been divided. She wants to encourage people, but especially white<\/em> women, to finally listen carefully to women of colour, and she outlines the necessary steps for the future of the feminist movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audre Lorde – Sister Outsider<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorde\u2019s essays speak of the pain that racism and heterosexism cause her. She analyzes the society in which she lives and notices that \u201cthose who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them\u201d (114). Yet Lorde, for all her anger, always remains constructive in her critiques and struggles. She proposes transforming anger into language and action, always insisting on self-definition. Her path is one of self-revelation \u2013 making visible not only unjust structures, but her own vulnerability within those structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexis Pauline Gumbs – Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals<\/em> by Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a strange book\u2013 in an extremely positive way. The way she talks about dolphins, whales, seals and co. in connection with Black experiences might be unusual for readers at first, so it might take time to get into it. But it\u2019s worth it! The chapters have titles like \u201cBreathe\u201d, \u201cBe Vulnerable\u201d and \u201cEnd Capitalism\u201d. Activist and spiritual threads run through the book, and it exercises critique \u2013 but its focus is on love and healing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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