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(8,155 posts) Wed Mar 12, 2014, 01:32 AM Mar 2014

Can anyone point me in the direction of some good books on feminist love?

I've decided it is time for me to come out of hiding. I need good, healthy love back in my life again.

And I need to get out of this depressive funk I've been stuck in for months. I'm about to finish Jazz by Toni Morrison and it has helped somewhat.

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Can anyone point me in the direction of some good books on feminist love? (Original Post) Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 OP

I wish you the best in your emerging from hiding. Glad you are feeling it is time! Squinch Mar 2014 #1

Hmm ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #2

I'll keep that in mind. Have you ever read The Female Man by Joanna Russ? Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #3

Long time ago ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #4

Hey here's a list from good reads-- I've read a bunch of them ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #5

Awesome. Thanks! I also found this list... Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #6

I've read a lot-- but by no means all, of those too ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #7

Squinch

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1. I wish you the best in your emerging from hiding. Glad you are feeling it is time!

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Wed Mar 12, 2014, 05:14 PM

Mar 2014

ismnotwasm

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2. Hmm

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Wed Mar 12, 2014, 07:49 PM

Mar 2014

I'm into sci fi for lighter reading; so much of what of feminist is kind of sad. If you like space opera with a gendered twist--the Chauner series by CJ Cherryh. It has a little bit of everything--only one human of importance though. Cool way of playing with gender-- you can make up your own rules

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3. I'll keep that in mind. Have you ever read The Female Man by Joanna Russ?

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Wed Mar 12, 2014, 07:53 PM

Mar 2014

It's been on my list for a while and it's supposed to be actual "feminist sci-fi."

ismnotwasm

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4. Long time ago

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Wed Mar 12, 2014, 08:02 PM

Mar 2014

Let me think for a sec; another one is "Lilith's Brood" by Octavia Butler-- again, it combined aliens and humans-- but in a very unique way. In fact-- anything a Butler writes is good.

I should retread "The female man-- I barely remember it

ismnotwasm

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5. Hey here's a list from good reads-- I've read a bunch of them

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Wed Mar 12, 2014, 08:08 PM

Mar 2014

Not sure they're what you're looking for. If you like urban fantasy, I like Lilith St. Crow's "jill Kismit "series-- it has an interesting romance that takes a backseat to a lot of action

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2792.Feminist_Science_Fiction_Books

Google "feminist love story and you get pages of the disgusting "the feminist and the cowboy " Ick

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6. Awesome. Thanks! I also found this list...

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Wed Mar 12, 2014, 08:11 PM

Mar 2014

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/46.Best_Feminist_Fiction

ismnotwasm

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7. I've read a lot-- but by no means all, of those too

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Wed Mar 12, 2014, 08:16 PM

Mar 2014

I love Memoirs of a a Geisha-- it was written by a man, but the story is incredibly compelling

Oh and I reread "Wuthering Heights last year-- very much a recommend

AND fried Green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe-- awesome book. Waaay better than the movie. In fact, I'd start with that one, because it's periodic and funny and sad and very well written

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