The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order
10 best books like The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order (Marcelle Karp): Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers and Magical Rebels on Summoning the Power to Resist, Play It As It Lays, Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation, Superflirt, How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time, Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer, Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise, Edie: Girl on Fire
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
| Author | Jennifer Baumgardner |
| ISBN | 0374526222 |
A powerful indictment from within of the current state of feminism, and a passionate call to arms
From Lilith Fair to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the WNBA--everywhere you look, girl culture is clearly ascendant. Young women live by feminism's goals, yet feminism itself is undeniably at a crossroads;...
Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
| Author | Lisa Jervis |
| ISBN | 0374113432 |
In the wake of Sassy and as an alternative to the more staid reporting of Ms. Magazine, Bitch was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple zine covering the landscape of popular culture from a feminist perspective. Both unabashed in its love for the guilty pleasures of consumer culture and...
A nonfiction book of deeply personal essays by marginalised people using the intersection of feminism, witchcraft, and resistance to summon power and become fearsome in a world that would prefer them afraid. With contributions from twenty witchy femmes, queer conjurers, and magical rebels, Becoming...
| Author | Joan Didion |
| ISBN | 0374529949 |
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil - literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren...
Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation
| Author | Barbara Findlen |
| ISBN | 1878067613 |
this was one of the best, most inclusive feminist anthologies i’ve come across! i have been feeling kind of isolated lately, because i have been feeling like every feminist/pro-woman thing i say gets challenged, debated, mocked, etc, even when i’m not looking for a debate. reading this book basically...
| Author | Tracey Cox |
| ISBN | 0789496518 |
Fresh, chatty, and filled with Tracey Cox's personal tips and hilarious anecdotes, Superflirt takes the reader through the fundamentals of body language, then shows you how to express the messages you want to send and how to read what other bodies are saying to you. Packed with intimate photographs...
| Author | Kara Jesella |
| ISBN | 0571211852 |
For a generation of teenage girls, Sassy magazine was nothing short of revolutionary—so much so that its audience, which stretched from tweens to twentysomething women, remains obsessed with it to this day and back issues are sold for hefty sums on the Internet. For its brief but brilliant run from...
Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer
| Author | Riki Anne Wilchins |
| ISBN | 1555837980 |
A one-stop, no-nonsense introduction to the core of postmodern theory, particularly its impact on queer and gender studies. Nationally known gender activist Riki Wilchins combines straightforward prose with concrete examples from LGBT and feminist politics, as well as her own life, to guide the...
Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise
| Author | Paul Monette |
| ISBN | 0156002027 |
...I've been visiting my own grave for years now--pre-need, as they call it--and I don't require any further vigil from anybody. Unless it is some kind of safety zone. And as long as there's no piety in the gesture. I don't like flowers, but the deer do. Keats and Lawrence and Stevenson all died of their...
| Author | David Weisman |
| ISBN | 0811855260 |
Now in paperbackthis is the real story of Edie Sedgwick: model, film star, socialite, friend, lover, and addict; first "it" girl of Andy Warhol's Factory and later muse to Bob Dylan. David Weisman filmed Edie for the last years of her life in his cult film Ciao! Manhattan. After uncovering lost footage,...
| Author | Elizabeth Engstrom |
| ISBN | 0688041752 |
Sally Ann is a bright and bubbling farm girl, still caught in the thrill of a brand-new husband and a shining future ahead. When a careless exploration leaves her trapped underground, she learns to live again in the absence of everything she once knew. Even driven by love and light, Sally Ann finds the...
