Sophie Lewis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Sophie Lewis

I wrote about Mallory O'Meara's "Girly Drinks." "The persecution of Europe’s witches, by this account, becomes in part a way of disciplining a class of semi-autonomous beer producers into accepting the work and gender order of the domestic household." https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n22/sophie-lewis/shebeen-queens https://t.co/hUeqChsZPd

Sophie Lewis

"We appear as grotesque abominations, but this is only because our beauty and care is no longer for them." We'll be live in 3.5 hours, discussing @StepfordDotter's book STEPFORD DAUGHTERS: WEAPONS FOR FEMINISTS IN CONTEMPORARY HORROR: https://t.co/ypu7eFcwy2 (w/ @InfraBrutalism)

Sophie Lewis

I've begun listening to @iycrtylph read aloud @BigMeanInternet's "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" and so can you. 1h in and I'm already as excited as I was when I read Planet of Slums. Also, dang I've never heard you talk like that, Patrick! Dreamy.

Sophie Lewis

For @BostonReview, I wrote (at length!) about gendered class rage in commodified housework and the Cinderella/Pamela narrative genre. It's pinned to "Maid" by Stephanie Land/Netflix, "Women's Work" by Megan Stack, and "The Perfect Nanny" by Leïla Slimani. https://bostonreview.net/arts-society-gender-sexuality/sophie-lewis-how-domestic-labor-robs-women-their-love

Sophie Lewis

Take time and read this easy by S.L. Lim on the fakeness of "No Document" by Anwen Crawford, & the realness of art that is actually bound up in anticolonial struggle. Also covered: carceral unions, settler solipsism, treachery to whiteness, class suicide. https://t.co/kftKgoLMXI

Sophie Lewis

For @BostonReview, I wrote (at length!) about gendered class rage in commodified housework and the Cinderella/Pamela narrative genre. It's pinned to "Maid" by Stephanie Land/Netflix, "Women's Work" by Megan Stack, and "The Perfect Nanny" by Leïla Slimani. https://bostonreview.net/arts-society-gender-sexuality/sophie-lewis-how-domestic-labor-robs-women-their-love

Sophie Lewis

In 1811, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué published a Romantic tale about a mermaid, Undine, who marries a human knight in order to gain an immortal soul. 25 years later, Hans C. Andersen riffed on Undine in composing his far more famous allegory for gay pining, “The Little Mermaid.” https://t.co/WqM7b3zB4P

Sophie Lewis

For @BostonReview, I wrote (at length!) about gendered class rage in commodified housework and the Cinderella/Pamela narrative genre. It's pinned to "Maid" by Stephanie Land/Netflix, "Women's Work" by Megan Stack, and "The Perfect Nanny" by Leïla Slimani. https://bostonreview.net/arts-society-gender-sexuality/sophie-lewis-how-domestic-labor-robs-women-their-love

Sophie Lewis

I've begun listening to @iycrtylph read aloud @BigMeanInternet's "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" and so can you. 1h in and I'm already as excited as I was when I read Planet of Slums. Also, dang I've never heard you talk like that, Patrick! Dreamy.