My Name is Lilith
10 best books like My Name is Lilith (Monette Chilson): Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, You Can Heal Your Life, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0895941228 |
in college, in the late 80s and early 90s, i discovered that i had two aunts. this is one (and this is another). aunt Audre intimidated me at first. she was a stern, moody, melancholy woman who had lived a life of so many ups and downs. but as i got to know her, her innate gentleness became clear. this was a woman...
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0895941414 |
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment...
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0896082210 |
A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist Theory: from margin to center argues that the contemporary feminist movement must establish a new direction for the 1980s. Continuing the debates surrounding her controversial first book, Ain't I A Woman,...
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
White male scholars who examined the black family by attempting to see in what ways it resembled the white family structure were confident that their data was not biased by their own personal prejudices against women assuming an active role in family decision-making. But it must be remembered that...
Black Looks: Race and Representation
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0896084337 |
Wide ranging and full of insight, Black Looks critiques the many ways American pop culture exploits, oppresses, and dehumanizes Black people through stereotyped representations. Across twelve short essays hooks examines how pop music, advertising, literature, and, especially, film work in...
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0896086283 |
Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuality, and society in this inspiring and accessible volume. In engaging and provocative style, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience....
| Author | Louise L. Hay |
| ISBN | 8176210773 |
This book is actually dangerous. I can't remember ever having said that about a text?
I read thirty pages of it, before having to shut it and run far away.
Every single copy of it should come with a huge trigger warning for ableism, fatphobia, and victim blaming of every variety.
Louise...
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0415908086 |
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for...
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0743456084 |
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express...
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
| Author | Soraya Chemaly |
| ISBN | 1501189557 |
A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change.
Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why.
We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive, or not sensitive enough. Too...
| Author | Max Dashu |
| ISBN | 0692740287 |
In recent years artists, feminists and scholars in Matriarchal Studies, Women's History and Goddess Spirituality have produced a monumental body of work, and one of these towering and influential figures is Max Dashu, who has spent 48 years excavating the western canon for evidence of women of power...
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0393312372 |
Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity. Her rhythms and accents have the timelessness of a poetry which extends...
All About Love: New Visions
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0688168442 |
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood....
Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom
| Author | Glenys Livingstone |
| ISBN | 1544179650 |
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The story of the greatly misunderstood Goddess, including why she likes snakes. 'My name is Medusa' explores the "scary" dark side, the potency of nature and the importance of dreams.
"Medusa was "once a solar divinity, a great goddess whose very name means 'ruler of humanity'": that is part...
The Morrigan remains one of the most misunderstood goddesses of the Celtic pantheon. Her mythology is a tangled web of various guises, deeds, and battles--and even her name is a bit of a mystery! Dive into the world of the Goddess of Death, and learn about what The Morrigan really has to teach us--and,...
Original Resistance: Reclaiming Lilith, Reclaiming Ourselves
| Author | Trista Hendren |
| ISBN | 1073185656 |
There is, perhaps, no more powerful archetype of female resistance than Lilith. As women across the globe rise up against the patriarchy, Lilith stands beside them, misogyny’s original challenger. This anthology—a chorus of voices hitting chords of defiance, liberation, anger and joy—reclaims...
My Name is Inanna (My Name is... Book 2)
Tamara Albanna weaves the tale of Inanna's despair, strength and triumph—giving children of all ages hope that the dark times in life will pass. Arna Baartz illustrates this journey with gorgeous illustrations of the owls, lions, stars, sun and moon that direct Her. My Name is Inanna is dedicated...
