From the Editors
October 2015. Here’s the first
Feminist Collections issue of the year.
It’s a double (Winter–Spring), and it
will be followed by another double
(Summer–Fall) in a couple of months.
We’re aiming to get back to a more
predictable publishing schedule in
2016.
Gay’s Bad Feminist, an essay collection
that Emily finds “[f ]resh, pithy, cynical, and brilliant.” Intrigued? Check
out Gay’s other writings, too: they
include a blog, a mixed-genre book
about Haiti, and a novel; see www.
roxanegay.com/writing.
L
ongtime readers may recall that
over the years, many editions of the
radical classic from the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective — Our
Bodies, Ourselves, often referred to by
the shorthand OBOS — have been reviewed in FC. Most recently (in v. 33,
no. 2, Spring 2012), Nancy Worcester
reviewed the ninth and newest edition
for us, calling it “not your mother’s
OBOS.” On pages 1–3 of this issue,
graduate student Kadin Henningsen
reviews the first-ever edition of Trans
Bodies, Trans Selves (TBTS), which
definitely isn’t your mother’s — or anyone’s mother’s — Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Kadin does, however, refer to OBOS
as the “feminist foremother” of this
amazing new resource for trans people
and their allies. And editor Laura
Erickson-Schroth — who, by the way,
first read her mother’s OBOS at the age
of 12 — honors that classic when she
says, in her preface to TBTS, “We have
endeavored to make [this volume] as
radical as its predecessor.”
On pages 4–5, our office’s former
student assistant/social media coordinator, Emily Wessing, reviews Roxane
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ancestors through my less-rigid (at least
in their own estimation) twentiethcentury Baptist parents, and in my
own ways I have moved rather far
afield from the faith of my upbringing. I think this topic is important, not
only because these stories of the past
are so emotionally resonant, but also
because today’s feminists need to be
more aware of the real dangers posed
by the Christian fundamentalism of
today. To further that awareness, I also
strongly recommend a title I cite in an
endnote to the review: Kathryn Joyce’s
Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement (Beacon Press, 2009). I
found it sobering, even terrifying.
How and where do you read
T
he third feature in this issue’s
book section is my own review of
“ex-fundamentalist-Christian” memoirs — stories of feminists who took
their leave of the authoritarian religious
environments in which they’d been
raised. I myself come from a long line
of Christian leave-takers, from my
sixteenth-century Swiss Mennonite
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