Happy Reading

Thanks for bringing my attention to Kidd’s other book. I had only read and loved “The Secret Life of Bees” until I read this post. I’ll be interested in reading her autogiography and have it at the top of my To Be Read list.

I am engrossed in the book “The Power of Yin: Celebrating Female Consciousness” written by three influential feminist philosophers of the 1970’s, Hazel Henderson, Jean Houston & Barbara Marx Hubbard. It is a record of discussion they had over a period of time in the 70’s, but their conversations are very relevant to today’s world, 30 years later!

I love reading how these accomplished women have shown intellectual, spiritual and cultural leadership, something most of our male leaders are sorely missing.

Thanks again for the info.

Cheers,
Linda

ruby

I am always recommending The Dance of the Dissodent Daughter to people; it was a hard book for me to read (how did the author live so many years and NOT NOTICE that people – church people particularly – treat women differently?) but so thought-provoking. I like Mink Kidd’s fiction less, but it’s made a huge difference in so many women’s lives.

I’m fond of The Body Project. It’s a great discussion-starter.

Harriet the Spy!

I’m interested in learning more about your journey towards ordination. Let me know if you’ve written about it here and I’ll look at those posts. I spent ten years wrestling with whether or not to go to rabbinical school, and finally decided to be my own damn rabbi – http://bullseyebaby.blogspot.com/2007/09/rabbi-hungry.html

All the best,

xo Jena

I subscribe to Powells.com Review-a-Day but I much prefer your highly selective and very thoughtful reviews.

Even though The Red Tent has almost 1400 Amazon reviews, it was brand new to me. It’s on my reading list now, because of your review, although it will be a few months until I get to it. I loved the link back to your beautiful Birdsong post. (A classic, IMHO. Perhaps you might want to reprint it here as a separate post?)

Thank you for guiding us on our artistic, healthy and feminist journeys.

Its funny, because today I emailed my husband a link to an article I read about how “Feminists (and their partners) Have More Fun,” its all about a scientific study done that shows that Feminists women (and men) and their partners have more rewarding romantic relationships. The conclusion of their article is pretty weak (in my opinion), so I came up with my own: Feminist women and their partners have more rewarding romantic relationships because when a woman loves herself so completely it makes her more capable of loving others more completely. Lucky, lucky for the partners of feminists.

Rachelle

I love you, Rachelle. You’re such an inspiration. You are one of the books that “helped [me] move along the road to a feminist awakening”.

It left me longing for ritual, for sacred connections with other women, for a “tribe” of my own.