I think it is important that you educate yourself about the issues that concern you. I have compiled a book list and a link list.
Pro- Choice America- This is a great non-profit site that has information reproductive rights as well as violence agianst women. They can help you contact your goverment officials about your concernes..
Feminism and the Net (HTML) - This this is a site that help web feminist like myself get a better understanding of maintianing a page it also has imformation of creating and joining web rings.
Feminist.com - This is a non- profit organazation that has a lot oof articles , essays and more links for you.
The Witness - This is a Christian Feminist web site. Intresting prosprective. I'm looking for all types of feminsit prospectives on the web. This is the frist of the theological ones.
With No Immedediate Cuase- this is a very powerful poem by Ntozake Shange written in 1978. It will make the coolest of soul boil in rage or erupt in tears.
My Book List
Respect: Women and Popular Musicby Dorothy Marcic - You`ll never look at Jay-Z the same again
Sl*t! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation -- by Leora Tanenbaum - A truly empowering book for those of us that had to hear that word one to many times in High school.
Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Sl*t -- by Emily White- the same vein as the last book but it focuses a bit more on female social groups and less on our Culture as a whole.
The Yellow Wallpaper -- by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, forward by Elaine Hedges- this is a classic that deals with feminine struggle against a binding society. Literary masterpiece.
God and the Victim: Theological Reflections on Evil, Victimization, Justice, and Forgivenessby Lisa Barnes Lampman- This book has a very interesting chapter on women and patriarchy.
Race Matters-- by Cornel West , this has to be one of the most profound true candid books on race relations and our current society.
Surviving The Silence- Black Women's Stories of Rape.-by Charlotte Pierce-Barker- This is a very moving book about survivors and in the African American community as well as the men in thier lives.
Agianst Our Will-by Susan Bromwiller- This is a book that explians the history of rape laws and looks at the crime in a sociological and feminsist way.
