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Book ClubsFeminist or Not? - What year should the maximum year be?
Posted July 10, 2024 by starsabove in Books

This poll is now closed.

  • 32%2010
    32%2010
  • 24%2019
    24%2019
  • 44%Other (please comment on which year!)
    44%Other (please comment on which year!)

25 votes

Hello again Ovarit! I do want to apologise for disappearing for a year or two; life got very hectic for me, but hopefully things have settled down enough that I can start posting here again!

One of the things I did here was post a series called Feminist or Not? - in which I pick a book under GoodReads' Feminism tag and ask members if the book is actually feminist or only pretending to be feminist.

I do have a question, however, before I restart. Currently, the books considered have to have been published from 2010 onward. The reason for this - and the reason Feminist or Not? was made in the first place - is because of the influx of books promoting TRA nonsense in the Feminism tag starts to show around this year.

But I've been thinking of changing the maximum year from 2010 to 2019. Looking around GoodReads, it seems that the TRA nonsense comes out in full force this year, to the point where it feels like every other book supports or parrots TRA ideology.

So I've decided to set it up to a poll. Should I keep the maximum year at 2010, or change it to 2019? Of course, if you think a year that isn't 2010 or 2019 would be best, please vote on the "Other" option! I will say that, while any year is fine with me, I would still like for there to be a maximum year. While it is of course important to talk about and remember feminist books across the years, I feel that the title question would not be a question for some older books. I don't think the suffragettes of yore would be too keen on all this TRA rubbish, for example. :P

Edit: Forgot to add! Regardless of what year is picked, should I redo books that have already been covered, or continue going down the shelf?

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