My ideal menu for the reading group would be wheat-free snacks if at all possible – perhaps wheatfree cakes (I can make some) and Japanese rice crackers and fruit juices and a cafetiere of coffee!
So I’ve chosen two works written by men about strong women.
Dan Graham
Rock my Religion: Writings and Art Projects 1965-1990
Edited by Brian Wallis.
Available here.
The section I’d like to submit begins on page 91 of the hardback edition and starts “she was the Mary Magdalene of Rock…”.
It continues until page 95 and ends “…She speculated on herself as a female GOD”.
Samuel Delany
Wonder Woman 202/203
DC comics
[Delany’s] Wonder Woman comics were controversial in the publication’s history because he wrote her as abandoning her superpowers to become a secret agent. I guess I interpret that decision as a move away from objectification, which I feel echoes much of his science fiction and non-fiction writing.He writes a lot about cruising and his encounters with a lot of men, yet his work doesn’t feel centred around masculinity.
Read more here.
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