Well, this is a pleasant surprise, in that usually when I tell someone they need to look up intersectionality they're pissed as hell at me. :d
Ishmael was an amazing book, as are the sequels, and it provided me with a lot of useful tools of understanding when I came to learn about anti-racism and similar progressive efforts to untangle the various ways humans shit on each other while pretending they're pudding wrestling.
If you've never encountered it, bell hook's wonderful Feminism is for Everybody is a fabulous little handbook on feminism from an intersectional perspective, including a brief history of how ignoring intersectionality has affected the history of mainstream feminism. bell hooks in general is marvelous, but if you want things broken down into generalities with lots of references to other source material, that's the best tool in my box.
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on 2009-07-29 10:49 pm (UTC)Ishmael was an amazing book, as are the sequels, and it provided me with a lot of useful tools of understanding when I came to learn about anti-racism and similar progressive efforts to untangle the various ways humans shit on each other while pretending they're pudding wrestling.
If you've never encountered it, bell hook's wonderful Feminism is for Everybody is a fabulous little handbook on feminism from an intersectional perspective, including a brief history of how ignoring intersectionality has affected the history of mainstream feminism. bell hooks in general is marvelous, but if you want things broken down into generalities with lots of references to other source material, that's the best tool in my box.