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Sunday, 30 December 2012

My Favourite Books of 2012 (Some Spoilers)

Posted on 15:35 by Unknown

I know that everyone does this and blah, blah, blah but I genuinely don't care. I recommend books to everyone, even if they don't actually read books [or pseudo-intellectualise by parroting reviews from the Times Literary Supplement which some men might want to remember is not only available on subscription to those middle aged white dudes with penises. The rest of us can read it too. Just saying].

So, these are my favourite books of 2012:

Lisa O'Donnell's The Death of Bees: It is triggering since it covers the systemic violence against women, particularly against those young girls who aren't considered "proper" victims but it is also beautiful, funny and full of hope.  It is the story of two sisters, Marnie and Nelly, struggling to survive in  a Glasgow housing estate without their parents, who they've just buried in a shallow grave in the backyard. They are victimised and revictimised in every manner possible and left to self-destruct by a welfare state that doesn't give a shit about poor kids from the housing estates. After all, when school is only "a convenient way for all of us to congregate in one place", it is obvious that these are the kids no one cares about (p.47). But, it's more than a litany of abuse. It's about surviving, friendships, the meaning of sisterhood and what really makes a family.

Maggie O'Farrell's The Vanishing Axt of Esme Lennox : It's about families and betrayal and the destruction of generations after one malicious act. It's heart-breaking but beautiful. No redemption but the importance of hearing when someone speaks, even if it seems something innocuous like a nickname.

Julia Long's Anti-Porn: The Resurgence of Anti-Porn Feminism: It's both a critical analysis of the representations of anti-porn feminism, pro-porn feminism and the pro-porn campaign within the media and culture; as well as a history of the anti-porn movement within Britain. Most importantly, it is a radical feminist critique of the debates surrounding pornography [and prostitution]. Far too often the "debates" on porn within the media focus on porn as an empowering tool for women [conveniently ignoring the fact that men are the ones getting rich from porn] and porn as an expression of human sexuality [and ignoring just how much porn dictates a hegemonic, heterosexual, racist sexuality which, in and of itself, is incredibly limited]. Long traces the feminist activism against pornography and illustrates some of the more successful feminist activist anti-porn campaign. Long has given a voice to both the survivors of the porn industries and the grassroots activists fighting against pornographication. She has contextualised the anti-porn feminist movement in the UK within diverse factions of feminism.

Emma Donoghue's The Sealed Letter
Esi Edugyan's Half Blood Blues
Helena Kennedy’s Eve was Framed: Women and British Justice
Maya Angelou's The Heart of a Woman

Maya Angelou's A Song Flung up to Heaven
Maya Angelou's All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou's Gather Together in My Name
Maya Angelou's Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche's Thing Around Your Neck
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche's Half a Yellow Sun
Marilyn French's A Woman's Room 
Andrea Dworkin's Intercourse
Joumana Haddad’s I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman 
Isabelle Allende's Island Beneath the Sea
Ngoni Achebe's Onaedo: The Blacksmith's Daughter

I've also recently discovered Marian Keyes' Walsh Family and M.C Beaton's Agatha Raisin series. I love them both!
These are some of the Feminist Blogs I've discovered and loved this year: 

BottomFace 
Exiled Stardust 
FatFemPinUp  
Feminist Current 
Feminist Revolution 
Frothy Dragon and the Patriarchal Stone  
Glosswatch
HerbsandHags  
Hiding Under the Bed is Not the Answer 

JelliandLilliPlop
No Anodyne 
RadFem Groundhog Day
RadFem Hub
Rage Against the ManChine 
Rmott62  
Salt and Caramel 
Sian and Crooked Rib  
Sisterhood is Powerful
Slendermeans
Smash the P  
Too Much to Say for myself 
Week Woman 

WhatStilliDid
You think I don't understand but I don't believe you


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