Stuff I Read...
and think you should too...
Ok, so I do work in a bookstore. And I read a LOT. This page will be updated frequently with new recommendations.
Books:
Promiscuities by Naomi Wolf
Cunt by Inga Muscio
Lonely Planet Japan
The Doctor's Wife by Sawako Ariyoshi
Backlash by Susan Faludi
Dave Barry Does Japan by Dave Barry
Womansword: What Japanese Words Say About Women by Kittredge Cherry
Feminism and Religion by Rita Gross
The Comfort Women by George Hicks
Anything by Dr. Seuss. My favorites include The Lorax, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Yertle the Turtle, The Sneetches, The Butter Battle Book, Oh the Places You'll Go, Green Eggs and Ham, and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
I Never Called it Rape by Robin Warshaw
Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Hiroshima by John Hersey
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
36 Views of Mount Fuji by Cathy Davidson
Takurazuka by Jennifer Robertson
Fire with Fire by Naomi Wolf
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Tofu Tollbooth by Dar Williams
Our Bodies Ourselves by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective
When Abortion was a Crime by Leslie Reagan
Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks
Three Lives for Mississippi by William Bradford Huie
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Japan for Starters by Charles Danzinger
One Thousand Paper Cranes: The Story of Sadako and the Children's Peace Statue by Takayuki Ishii
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future by Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner
Hokkaido Highway blues by Will Ferguson
Any Lonely Planet guide. Don't leave home without one (though reading randon travel guides is something that I admit to doing)
Travelers' Tales Guides, Japan ed. Donald W. George and Amy Greimann Carlson
Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism ed. Sandra Buckley
Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945 ed. Gail Lee Bernstein
The Last Time I Wore a Dress by Daphne Scholinksi
Lonely Planet: Read this First, Asia and India
The Roads to Sata by Alan Booth
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush by Molly Ivins
Prison Writings: My Life is a Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier
There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
A Question of Choice by Sarah Weddington (the lawyer who argued Roe v Wade)
Picture Bride by Yoshiko Uchida
The Accidental Office Lady by Laura Kriska
Underground by Haruki Murakami
Magazines:
Ms.
Mother Jones
The Utne Reader
George
Curve
Bust
The Nation
Good Japanese Language Resources:
Kodansha's Compact Kanji Guide
Nelson's Japanese/English Character Dictionary
A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar by the Japan Times
The Power Japanese Series (Most titles in this series are good. I especially like All About Particles and Read Real Japanese)
Kodansha's Furigana Japanese to English Dictionary
Kodansha's Furigana English to Japanese Dictionary
Current Japanese Intercultural Communication by Yoshiko Higurashi
Kansai Japanese by Peter Tse
That's a start...
Go home.
