My most recent lapse in blogging comes to you courtesy of the IRS and
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, in one of his pensive, sexier moments. (He looks much hotter with less mustache. If hot is a word one can ever connect to Bismarck.)
I’ve finished my taxes. (Yay!) They collided in ways both stressful and funny with my mad rush to prep my Nazi class. (For those not following along at home, that’s a class on the history of Nazi Germany, not a class on how to be a Nazi. Though for those inclined toward the latter, may I suggest the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party – no linky-love for them, nosirree, moving right along! – whom I discovered through yet another unsettling google search.)
Anyway, while awkwardly multitasking between class prep and tax prep, I toted up a list of the books I’ve ordered recently. Then I tacked on the books that are literally underfoot. I didn’t manage to squeeze out a deduction for the IRS, but it was still a revealing exercise:
- Sandra Harding, Standpoint Theory Reader
- Sandra Harding, Whose Science?
- Jaclyn Friedman & Jessica Valenti, Yes Means Yes
- Katha Pollitt, Learning to Drive
- Rebecca Kukla, Mass Hysteria
- Eugene Kennedy, Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality
- Kelly Brown Douglas, Sexuality & the Black Church
- Clayton Sullivan, Rescuing Sex from the Christians
- Christine Gudorf, Body, Sex & Pleasure
- Lisa Duggan, Sex Wars
- Alice Echols, Daring to be Bad
- Laura Kipnis, Against Love
- Mama PhD (anthology)
- Shulamith Firestone, Dialectic of Sex
- Simone de Beauvoir, The 2nd Sex
- Judith Walzer Leavitt, Make Room for Daddy
- Carole Vance, Pleasure and Danger
- Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty
- Lisa Jean Moore, Sperm Counts
- Sarah Forth, Eve’s Bible
- Cristina Mazzoni, Maternal Impressions
- Laura Kipnis, The Female Thing
- Margaret Atwood, Flood
- Barbara Ehrenreich, Brightsided
- Julia Serano, Whipping Girls
- Kevin Haworth, The Discontinuity of Small Things (novel of Jewish life under German occupation)
- Michael Kimmel, Guyland
- Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men
- C. J. Pascoe, Dude You’re a Fag
- Eric Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
- Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs
- Joan Sewell, I’d Rather Eat Chocolate
- Deborah Siegel, Sisterhood Interrupted
- Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness
- Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich
- Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis
- Peter Fritzsche: Life and Death in the Third Reich
- Judith Grant, Fundamental Feminism
- Laura Augstin, Sex at the Margins
- Kristin Luker, Sex Goes to School
- Jackson Spielvogel, Hitler and Nazi Germany
- Jeremy Noakes’ four-volume collection of Nazi primary sources
- Jane Caplan, ed., Nazi Germany
- Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality and German Fascism
- Eberhard Kolb, The Weimar Republic
- Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem
- William Allen, The Nazi Seizure of Power
- Maria Hoehn, GIs and Fräuleins
- Nancy Reagin, Sweeping the German Nation
See any patterns there? Have you guessed how Limbaugh’s got me all figured out?
Please leave your verdict in comments. First commenter to guess correctly gets a free copy of the map quiz I’m giving on Thursday on Europe in the interwar years. (But not before Thursday. It is embargoed! Super top secret!) Equally attractive prizes may be awarded for extra-creative wrong responses. We don’t do Rice-A-Roni here at Kittywampus, but we’ve got a mondo supply of Bunny Mac.
Patron cat of Kittywampus (1985-2001)
Why, you’re a “feminazi” of course! The only feminism Limbaugh knows!!
Bingo! You’re the clever winner!
It strikes me that there are probably only several dozen people in the country whose bookshelf looks much like mine … and I probably know most of them personally. Which makes “feminazis” a rare breed indeed.
Yes, your choice of reading material is quite intriguing! In fact, it’s fun to look these up on Amazon and give them a read, although German history isn’t my forte. Thanks for the list!!
What great list, you feminazi;)
I just got Flood, and I am looking forward to it. I am a huge fan of Female Chauvinist Pigs. I found Kukla a little heavy at times, but I have a feeling that you are no stranger to heavy.
Annie, German history was once my forte, but I haven’t taught it in eons. So I’m really having to bone up. It’s been fun to see how much comes back to me, once I put in the work.
Hilary, I am saving Flood for summer, when I’ll have time to truly savor it. I just adore Atwood. I hope she’s still writing at age 100 (for purely selfish reasons!).
Yeah, Kukla managed to stymie me with a few of her words – I can’t recall them anymore, which means I suppose I’m set to be stymied again! But apart from those little vocabulary blips, I didn’t struggle with her because I’ve done enough intellectual history and read enough Rousseau and studied the history of wet-nursing, though not in any systematic way. I really loved her perspective – not rejecting the good that medicine (and maybe even medicalization) can offer, but insisting that good care will be both woman- and infant-centered. I haven’t met her, but I met a bunch of philosophers working in a similar vein at a conference last spring, and wow were they a cool bunch of people. I’d love to have a chance to meet her too.
As for FCP? I read 2/3 of it over winter break, then ran out of time, but had to kick myself repeatedly for not reading it earlier. You know how it’s sometimes easy to think that if you’ve read the buzz about a book – a review or two, maybe an author interview or blog post – you’ve got the gist of it? Well, I was dead wrong on FCP. I found it to be much richer and more nuanced than I’d expected.
Funnily enough, it looks like Feminist Critics has recently had to ban a feminazi. No, I don’t mean a feminist with undesirable views – I mean a fully-fledged Nazi sympathizer. The world is a truly strange place…
Oh wow. I just took a quick glance at the questionable quotations, and yeah, I think Hugh would’ve been remiss NOT to ban her. I think Hugh is too sympathetic to PUA but actual Nazis and anti-Semites are orders of magnitude more problematic.