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Recommended
Links:
Filipinas Magazine
Philippine News
Manila Bulletin USA
V-Day Official Website
Project
Sanctuary Official Website
http://www.projectsanctuary.org
Buy Eve Ensler's Book - The
Vagina Monologues
The
Vagina Monologues Official Website
http://www.thevaginamonologues.com
More
About Juarez
ABC
News Article:
Nighmare
in a City of Dreams:
Señorita
Extraviada; Missing Young Women:
Juarez
Women:
El Paso Times; Death
Stalks the Border:
Recommended
Reading
Books
- Fiction
The
Vagina Monologues (Eve Ensler)
Awakening
(Kate Chopin) - the story of a young woman who finds it
impossible to accept that, "for women it is a holy privilege
to efface
themselves as individuals" and fights back in the only way
she knows, and
her solution is extreme
Bastard
out of Carolina (Dorothy Allison) - a semi-autobiographical
and
controversial book about growing up as "poor, white trash"
and experiencing
abuse and rape from childhood
Clit Notes: A
Sapphic Sampler (Holly Hughes) - 5 outrageous performance pieces
The
Color
Purple
(Alice Walker) - a disturbing yet realistic account into the
life of Celie, a young black woman with a tragic, abusive past who
learns
how to survive, how to let go of the past, and most of all how to
love
Dawn
(Octavia
E. Butler)
Laguna
Women
Poems
(Leslie Marmon Silko)
The
Lovely
Bones
(Alice Sebold) - from heaven, a young girl who was brutally
raped and murdered watches her community respond to her death
Necessary
Targets
(Eve Ensler) - a play about a well-heeled New York psychiatrist
and
her younger colleague traveling to a refugee camp intending to help
Bosnian
women "tell their stories" after the brutal war in Yugoslavia
Paradise
(Toni
Morrison)
Possessing
the Secret of Joy (Alice Walker) - a young girl submits to the
ritual
female circumcision and spends the rest of her life trying to understand
its meaning and live with its consequences
Push
(Sapphire)
- a story about an abused girl who learns to cope after growing
up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed
The
Red
Tent
(Anita Diamant) - an insider's look at the daily life of a
biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their one and only daughter
Temple
of
My Familiar
(Alice Walker) - Transcending the conventions of time and
place, Walker's novel moves from contemporary America, England,
and Africa
to unfamiliar primal worlds, where women, men, and animals socialize
in
surprising ways
Woman
Hollering
Creek and House on Mango Street
(Sandra Cisneros) - a collection
of stories, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied
life on
both sides of the Mexican border. The women in these stories offer
tales of
pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.
The
Woman
Warrior: Memoires of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Maxine
Hong Kingston) -
a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up
Chinese
American where a young girls distills the dire lessons of her mother's
mesmerizing "talk-story" tales of a China where girls
are worthless,
tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her
way upward
Books - Non-Fiction
Addiction
to
Perfection:
The Still Unravished Bride: A Psychological Study (Studies
in Jungian Psychology, 12.) (Marion Woodman) - recommended by Eve
Black
Feminist
Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
(Patricia Hill Collins) - the first history and analysis of "Black
women's
ideas" told in a voice that is "both individual and collective,
personal
and political, one reflecting the intersection of my unique biography
with
the larger meaning of my historical times."
Colonize
This!:
Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
(Daisy Hernandez, ed.)
young women of color write about feminism
Conscious
Femininity:
Interviews With Marion Woodman
(Studies in Jungian Psychology
by Jungian Analysts, No 58) (Marion Woodman) - recommended by Eve
Cunt:
A
Declaration of Independence
(Inga Muscio) - tracing the history of the
word cunt with the goal of reclaiming this word for its original
respected
meaning
Cunt
Coloring
Book (Tee
Corinne) - realistic images of cunts to be colored
In
Search
of Our Mother's Garden's
(Alice Walker) - a collection of
non-fiction essays about black women in relation to their families,
mothers, and the world
Manifesta:
Young
Women, Feminism, and the Future
(Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards)
Our
Bodies
Ourselves
(Boston Women's Health Book Collective - a classic book
about women's bodies
Outrageous
Acts
and Everyday Rebellions
(Gloria Steinem) - humorous political essays
Sex
for
One
(Betty Dodson) - a guide to masturbation as a joyful and essential
part of life
Sexing
the
Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
(Anne
Fausto-Sterling)
Straight,
No
Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman
(Jill Nelson)
Sister
Outsider:
Essays and Speeches
(Audre Lorde) - most important: "The Master's
Tools will Never Dismantle the Master's House"
Woman:
An
Intimate Geography
(Natalie Angier)
YELL-Oh
Girls!
Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian
American (Vickie Nam) - anthology of 80 stories told by Asian-American
girls ages 15-22, talking about establishing identity
Recommended
Movies
The
Vagina Monologues - the HBO special
Women
Make Movies's suggestions - films made by women that address
issues of
violence against women
Eat
Drink, Man Woman
Honoring
Our Voices - six Native
women talk about the choices they have made to overcome the hardships
of
family violence and end the cycle of abuse and silence
Rape
Is... - a documentary about a human rights outrage that leaves
millions of women,
children and men in a state of terror and pain
Real
Women Have Curves - the story of
a first generation Mexican-American girl balancing her mainstream
ambitions
and her cultural heritage
Warrior
Marks - poetic and
political film about female genital mutilation
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