Book Club

YWTF-NYC hosts a monthly book club at Tea Spot in the West Village. Our July 2009 book will be Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement by Kathryn Joyce. Contact us if you'd like to join!

We have featured the following books in the past:

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The She Spot by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen
Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity by Robert Jensen
Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories by Katha Pollit
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America by Cristina Page
When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone
Your Money and Your Life: The High Stakes for Women Voters in '08 and Beyond by Martha Burk
Jane Sexes It Up edited by Merri Lisa Johnson
The Meaning of Wife by Anne Kingston
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz
Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters by Jessica Valenti
The F Word: Feminism in Jeopardy--Women, Politics, and the Future by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy
Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide by Maureen Dowd

If you are interested in joining the Book Club Committee, please contact Alexandra Zimmermann and/or Jessica Perl.

Here are some of YWTF-NYC membership's other favorite books:

Fiction
The Vagabond by Colette
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian

Non-Fiction
Self Made Man by Norah Vincent
Couldn't Keep It To Myself by Wally Lamb
Look Both Ways by Jennifer Baumgartner
A Common Secret by Sue Wicklund
Potential by Ariel Schrag
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters by Courtney E. Martin
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays by Ellen Willis

To submit book ideas, for this page or for the book club, please email us.