Gillian Branstetter Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Can the Monster Speak?: A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
Paul PreciadoGillian BranstetterPreciado... is trying to illustrate and challenge all the ways in which transgender people’s voices are not taken seriously by the medical establishment, by the media, by the culture.
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Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex
Elizabeth ReisGillian BranstetterWrote about this few months back. Also highly, highly recommend the book Bodies In Doubt by Elizabeth Reis. It's really impossible to separate trans medicine from intersex medicine, especially when the former was born from the latter. https://t.co/fkcaqgGh8Z https://t.co/xukm3q7fCd
Paperback, 2021
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Speak: (National Book Award Finalist)
Laurie Halse AndersonGillian BranstetterSpeak by Laurie Halse Anderson, alongside The Bluest Eye and a litany of books by and about queer and trans people, cited as pornography in school libraries near Des Moines https://www.axios.com/local/des-moines/2022/02/11/des-moines-suburb-districts-book-ban-requests
Paperback, 2011
$12.99Member price:$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism
Melinda CooperGillian BranstetterThis was also a popular notion among neoliberal economists of the 1970s, who connected inflation to moral depravity and "sexual promiscuity" enabled by welfare spending. From Melinda Cooper's Family Values: https://t.co/LeCcFDHISz
Paperback, 2019
$22.95Member price:$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia KobabeGillian BranstetterRight-wing activists completely defunded a Michigan town's only library because the librarians refused to ban Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. https://t.co/Z85quO7QBF
Paperback, 2019
$24.99Member price:$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry Into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley
Adrian DaubGillian BranstetterHighly recommend Adrian Daub's "What Tech Calls Thinking" https://t.co/5KkkTFM3Wv
Paperback, 2020
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
Angela SainiGillian BranstetterFrom Angela Saini's The Patriarchs: Children of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which traces lineage through the mother, frequently swapped "he" and "she" pronouns when learning English because they presumed "he" didn't refer to men but to the "more important gender" https://t.co/OFtKFsbxPp
Hardcover, 2023
$26.95Member price:$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Milk and Honey
Rupi KaurGillian Branstetter“Over the last few months, parts of Texas and Oregon have banned or attempted to ban Milk and Honey from schools and libraries. Why? Because it explores sexual assault and violence experienced by a young woman.” @rupikaur_ https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/rupi-kaur-milk-and-honey-texas-ban
Paperback, 2015
$14.99Member price:$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Janet MalcolmGillian BranstetterThis narrative was perpetuated by Ted Hughes, who ruled over her estate after her death and was intentionally selective and censorious to authorized biographies and media interest. Janet Malcolm's The Silent Woman is a must-read https://t.co/68Zg9HeZcN
Paperback, 1995
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Woman Upstairs
Claire MessudGillian BranstetterFrom "The Woman Upstairs" by Claire Messud https://t.co/pIaKlGWMGp
Paperback, 2014
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book