Books by June Jordan
“June Jordan lived her life by fighting all those tentacles of the octopus of oppression. There is a quote from remarks, which she gave at Barnard College, that really gets to the heart of this: ‘That confrontation with heavyweight intolerance carried me through our Civil Rights Revolution and into our resistance to the War Against Vietnam and then into the realm of gender and sexual and sexuality politics. And those strivings, in aggregate, carried me from Brooklyn to Mississippi, to South Africa, to Nicaragua, to Israel, to Palestine, to Lebanon and to Northern Ireland, and every single one of those embattled baptisms clarified pivotal connections among otherwise apparently disparate victories, or among apparently disparate events of suffering and loss.’ “ Read more...
Mona Eltahawy, Journalist
Interviews where books by June Jordan were recommended
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Woman at Point Zero
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This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color
by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (editors) -
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde -
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A Small Key Can Open A Large Door: The Rojava Revolution
by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness -
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Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
by June Jordan
The best books on Patriarchy, recommended by Mona Eltahawy
The best books on Patriarchy, recommended by Mona Eltahawy
If you looked up patriarchy in a dictionary, the definition probably wouldn’t correspond with what most feminists and activists mean by it today. Here, Mona Eltahawy—journalist, activist and author of The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls—explains what it’s all about, why its tentacles are everywhere, and what to read to understand more about it.
