Hello comrades, after the success of our Will to Change book club, I'd like to host another reading group here on /c/menby. hooks' work on anti-patriarchal masculinity was hugely insightful for many of us and I'd like to delve further into gender and feminist theory.

The main book I was looking at was Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici, however other users pointed out that the book suffers from very poor historiography that significantly weakens the arguments she makes, despite having great ideas. If you've read Caliban and still believe it would be an great read, please let me know below.

Please leave any other suggestions for our next book in the comments.

And if you'd like to be added to the ping list for this, let me know.

I look forward to learning about what everyone else has or would like to read!

  • OgdenTO [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    Please add/keep me on the ping list! I don't have a book suggestion, unfortunately, but I am interested in reading in the book club on this.

  • Ath3ro [none/use name]
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    3 days ago

    I recommend Beyond Machismo. Good book that I think pushes a bit more into Bell Hooks points about how our patriarchal is not beneficial for men either. Also please add me to the ping list

  • glans [it/its]
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    3 days ago

    The main book I was looking at was Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici, however other users pointed out that the book suffers from very poor historiography that significantly weakens the arguments she makes, despite having great ideas.

    I was thinking about the tension between Caliban being a useful sort of allegory and the wrong historical info. If it is still a thing people are interested in, I wonder if it would be worthwhile to invite the reddit user /u/sunagainstgold who wrote the linked critiques to participate. She is Cait Stevenson and I don't think it is 100% out of the realm of possibility that she might do so. Before reddit died I was always a fan of hers on there, she has a good POV on many topics and very generous with her time. Or maybe she would know someone else who would be interested.

  • glans [it/its]
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    3 days ago

    As regards to feminist masculinity, I quite liked reading butch women.

    • lil_tank [any, he/him]
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      3 days ago

      It's a short book, and it is written in a very clear and straightforward manner. I missed it too but I was able to catch up pretty easily and now I can't stop talking about this book to everyone