Finally done with exams. I’ve been spending the last few days hanging out with the graduating seniors ( 
) and visiting alums, watching anime, and basically being a lazy bum, but I can only do that for so long. Ironically, I look at my summer break thinking, “great! now I can do all this reading that I wanted to do without any academic pressure.”
One thing I really regret about my college education is that I never took a gender studies or queer theory class. (I know, surprising, right?) So I checked out/ordered a bunch of books that I’ve been wanting to read for a while, or were recommended by my lovely Tweeps. 
Here they are:
- Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
- Writing on the Body by Katie Conboy
- The Gendered Society by Michael S. Kimmel
- Queer Theory: An Introduction by Annamarie Jagose
- PoMoSexuals by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel
- A Queer World by Martin Duberman
- Screw the Roses, Send me the Thorns by Philip Miller and Molly Devon
- SM 101 by Jay Wiseman
I might be rambling about some of them, the less academic ones most probably.
I’m also thinking of investing in a good rope bondage instructional/informational book, but not sure which the most appropriate one would be to get. I can see myself very much enjoying the art and aesthetics surrounding rope bondage, once I get over the frustration of sucking at tying knots.
Have you read any awesome books on kink, queerness, gender, sexuality, or what have you? Leave a comment
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I read
Queer Theory: An Introduction by Annamarie Jagose
Screw the Roses, Send me the Thorns by Philip Miller and Molly Devon
SM 101 by Jay Wiseman
Some other great books I read
Bisexuality and The Eroticism of Everyday Life – Marjorie Gabor
The New Bottoming Book – Easton and Hardy
Whipping Girl – Julia Serano (currently reading)
Sexuality – Jeffrey Weeks
Hi, I think you’d like Carol Vance’s classic pro-sex feminist anthology Pleasure and Danger, which includes seminal queer studies essays like Gayle Rubin’s “Thinking Sex.” Also, you might find some goodies here:
http://sublimefemme.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/femme-literary-meme/
Happy reading,
xo
SF
In regards to rope instruction books, I’m pretty sure any of the ones listed on Twisted Monk‘s site would be appropriate, especially any by Jay Wiseman, Midori, or Lee Harrington.
I also bought this nifty little knot book back when I first got into bondage (hah, all those years ago), which is way more knots than anyone needs to know, but I had a lot of fun just learning them, like monkey’s fist and turk’s head knots. Great just for playing around with rope and getting comfortable with it.
Also, don’t you still have a year left? Can’t you fit a gender studies class in there somewhere?
What the person above me said. I gave my boyfriend the book from the knotty boys for his birthday and he seemed quite happy with it, and several friends of mine have it too and gave it good reviews.
I wish I could point you in the direction of more nice gendertheory books, but most classes I had worked with printed out articles from a lot of different sources…
/Nuclear Rainbow
Thanks for the recs!
More like 2 terms (graduating 1 term early)
I could probably audit. I still have a few reqs left and a couple classes I absolutely *must* take (Experimental Videomaking is one of them) so not much space for gender studies sadly