Episode 170 - Gender Theory & Gender Studies

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about Gender Theory & Gender Studies! We discuss theory vs studies, memes, feminism, books that should exist but don’t, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde
• Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson
• Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
• Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele
• Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
• A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G. and J.R. Zuckerberg

Other Media We Mentioned

• BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine edited by Lisa Jervis & Andi Zeisler
• Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image edited by Ophira Edut
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
• Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam
• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
• Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
• The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
• All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman
• For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
• X-Gender, vol. 1 by Asuka Miyazaki
• A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson
• Feminism is For Everybody by bell hooks
• Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne
• A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution edited by Karen Green & Tristan Taormino

Links, Articles, and Things

• A small sample of Bibliocommons user-curated lists:
  • Early Feminism Through 1847
  • Feminist Classics: Third Wave Feminism, the 1990s
  • Trans Classics: important books about the many trans experiences
• Very Short Introductions (Wikipedia)
• TERF / FART / “Gender Critical”
• Transgender Childhood Is Not a ‘Trend’ by Jules Gill-Peterson
  • Gill-Peterson is one of 1,000+ contributors to the New York Times who signed an open letter condemning the anti-trans bigotry in their coverage. Read it here.
• Hark! Episode 330: Fucking Pie

20 Gender Theory/Studies books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
• The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions by Paula Gunn Allen
• Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa
• Decolonizing Trans/Gender 101 by b. binaohan
• The Crunk Feminist Collection edited by Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, & Robin M. Boylorn
• Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? by Heath Fogg Davis
• Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
• Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill
• Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence by Nimmi Gowrinathan
• White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
• Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
• But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull
• Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration edited by Robert Alexander Innes and Kim Anderson
• Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa
• Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism edited by Bushra Rehman
• I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton

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