Comments on: Reader’s Choice: Ms. Magazine’s Best Feminist Nonfiction http://www.harpyness.com/2011/09/13/ms-magazines-best-feminist-nonfiction/ As narrated by the most charming and vicious women on the internet Fri, 17 May 2013 21:22:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sara http://www.harpyness.com/2011/09/13/ms-magazines-best-feminist-nonfiction/comment-page-1/#comment-73022 Sara Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:33:05 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=21100#comment-73022 Someone probably added it relatively early on, and then everyone who liked the book just clicked the vote button. Since it’s already on the list, people may not think about the criteria for inclusion.

]]> By: annajcook http://www.harpyness.com/2011/09/13/ms-magazines-best-feminist-nonfiction/comment-page-1/#comment-73012 annajcook Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:46:57 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=21100#comment-73012 @Becky I noticed The Handmaid’s Tale as well … perhaps it’s someone’s editorial comment about the way they think the world is headed? But yeah … speculative fiction = still fiction :)

]]> By: BeckySharper http://www.harpyness.com/2011/09/13/ms-magazines-best-feminist-nonfiction/comment-page-1/#comment-72980 BeckySharper Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:20:24 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=21100#comment-72980 I’m confused about the fact that The Handmaid’s Tale is #4 on that list. Despite the best efforts of the Christian evangelical movement, the Republic of Gilead is not a real place. But anyway…

I would add to this list a couple of my favorite Nuyorican memoirs When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago and When the Spirits Dance Mambo by Marta Moreno Vega. Both women have remarkable voices and their life stories make intersectionalities vivid and real in a way that sticks with the reader far more than any academic analysis of the same issues could have.

And sharing Anna’s shout-out to Our Bodies, Ourselves . If I were queen of the world and could make women read one book and one book only, it would be that one.

]]> By: Sara http://www.harpyness.com/2011/09/13/ms-magazines-best-feminist-nonfiction/comment-page-1/#comment-72968 Sara Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:13:26 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=21100#comment-72968 Whipping Girl was the first book I thought of, too – before I clicked “read more” and saw it on your list.

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