Femme-o-Files

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“I am not an angry girl
but it seems I have everyone fooled.

…I have been fighting the good fight,
and what if there are no damsels in distress;
what if I knew that and I called your bluff?
Don’t you think every kitten figures out how to get down
whether or not you ever show up?

I am not a pretty girl.
I don’t want to be a pretty girl,
no I want to be more than a ‘pretty’ girl.”

Jun 16 2011

Audio tagged as: not_a_pretty_girl ani_difranco

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About me

*scroll down for recommended reading*

I, the curator of this little corner of cyberspace, identify as a female; in my early 20's on the outside, perpetually an old soul on the inside. I am the product of New York City, Puerto Rican parents and grandparents, and a most beloved women's college known as Wellesley. These are the labels that are relevant to my reality.

To what's relevant for the reader: This Tumblr is a collection of media and observations, dedicated to other Femme-o-Philes, and conforming to the following:

A feminist is a person who answers "yes" to the question, "Are women human?" Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men. And it's certainly not about trading personal liberty--abortion, divorce, sexual self-expression--for social protection as wives and mothers, as pro-life feminists propose. It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience. It's about women consulting their own well-being and being judged as individuals rather than as members of a class with one personality, one social function, one road to happiness. It's about women having intrinsic value as persons rather than contingent value as a means to an end for others: fetuses, children, the "family," men. -- Katha Pollitt
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Recommended viewing/ reading material:

"MissRepresentation," a compelling 8-minute documentary on why feminism is relevant (and urgently necessary) today: http://vimeo.com/28066212

Brief overview of the different "types" of feminism (not comprehensive, but a good start): http://feminism.suite101.com/article.cfm/types_of_feminism.

UN Report Focuses on Global Lot of Women: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/world/21nations.html?ref=world

A Fascinating TED talk on the 21st Century's New Global Crisis -Female Economic and Social Disempowerment: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/eng//id/930

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa

Ain't I A Woman? by Bell Hooks

Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
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Not compiled by me, but awesome:

NEW TO FEMINISM?
Manifesta by Jennifer Baumgardner
Feminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
Full-Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti

DIG IN!
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Backlash by Susan Faludi
No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women by Estelle B. Freedman
The Essential Feminist Reader edited by Estelle B. Freedman
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism by Daisy Hernandez
Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy
Feminism Without Borders by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio
Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher
Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes by Lillian Robinson
The Spiral Dance by Starhawk
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft; BUY IT | READ IT ONLINE
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolfe

FEMINISM AND THE BODY:
Unbearable Weight by Susan Bordo
FAT!SO? Because You Don’t Have to Apologize For Your Size by Marilyn Wann
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

FEMINISTS DO IT BETTER.
Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Judy Norsigian and the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti

GET INVOLVED!
Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism by Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards, and Winona LaDuke
Leading the Way: Young Women’s Activism for Social Change by Mary K. Trigg