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Feminism is the movement to liberate women from patriarchy. We stand up for the rights of women to control our own bodies as individuals and to control women-only spaces as a class.
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I love how Nutmeg credits Owen Jones for the marketing. His screaming about how hateful it is when he hasn't even seen a copy yet has done the work of a dozen professionals. He is such a weasel.
Thanks for the heads up--I just pre-ordered it! I'm interested to see if Amazon pulls it and refunds our money . . .
Yes I was very grateful to Talcum X (aka Owen Jones) for his tweet REEEEE-ing about how dreadful the book is, since he kindly drew my attention to said book, which I promptly ordered :-)
Oh my god - Talcum X. That's amazing.
It was either Julie Bindel or Julie Burchill or Suzanne Moore that came up with that one! Not 100% who but definitely one of those three godesses!
I'd only ever heard Talcum X referring to Shaun King (who desperately deserves the title imo).
I preordered it, as well! Curious to see if I actually get it or Amazon decides to censor.
Is there anyway to preorder not from Amazon? I don't really want to support them and plus Amazon doesn't even service my country anyways
It's available for pre-order on Foyles https://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/lgbt-gender-studies/trans-when-ideology-meets-reality,helen-joyce-9780861540495
Thanks! Looks like this will work
Does anyone have a list of best gender critical books?
I've found a few on Good Reads. This one looks the best:
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/gender-critical
Unfortunately there's no Radfem library so the people who should be doing this, aren't.
Didn't somone on here have a gender critical bookshelf on goodreads that got deleted? Goodreads seems like they have drunk the gender koolaid, it would be nice to have an alternative.
Christ, censorship on a book website! What the hell have we come to?
Hahaha! Owen Jones is such a ratty little gobshite, I’m glad his tweet benefited this book.
I'm gonna preorder it right now. Thanks for the reminder.
The books I am not supposed to read is now towering over my head.
I hadn't heard of this book! I shall now pre-order it! Thanks! 😃
Aaah, somehow I completely missed this book, preordered now. :)