Suzette Haden Elgin's The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense series of books are excellent.
David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years is available online for free, although not in the most readable format.
James W. Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me and Sundown Towns are both wonderful US history books.
Henry Jenkins's Textual Poachers is about transformative fandom; it's one of the earliest (and still one of the few) academic looks at the fanfic world.
Joanna Russ's How to Suppress Women's Writing covers many of the common excuse for making sure young women don't decide "author" is the career for them.
John Taylor Gatto's Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling expands on the concepts in his article, The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher.
Lewis Hyde's The Gift (which is currently subtitled "reativity and the Artist in the Modern World" but when I first read it, it was "Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property") is a terrific exploration of the cultural side of economic norms.
Paul Williams (not that Paul Williams) Das Energi is a 70's "self-help"-ish philosophy/hippie-ish-thoughts book in the same genre as Be Here Now, whatever that is; there's a handful of segments of this that are still ringing in my head years after I first read them.
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Date: 2017-08-17 07:27 pm (UTC)David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years is available online for free, although not in the most readable format.
James W. Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me and Sundown Towns are both wonderful US history books.
Henry Jenkins's Textual Poachers is about transformative fandom; it's one of the earliest (and still one of the few) academic looks at the fanfic world.
Joanna Russ's How to Suppress Women's Writing covers many of the common excuse for making sure young women don't decide "author" is the career for them.
John Taylor Gatto's Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling expands on the concepts in his article, The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher.
Lewis Hyde's The Gift (which is currently subtitled "reativity and the Artist in the Modern World" but when I first read it, it was "Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property") is a terrific exploration of the cultural side of economic norms.
Paul Williams (not that Paul Williams) Das Energi is a 70's "self-help"-ish philosophy/hippie-ish-thoughts book in the same genre as Be Here Now, whatever that is; there's a handful of segments of this that are still ringing in my head years after I first read them.