No book inparticular but it would have to be the feminist literature I read when I was at Polytechnic.
It really opened my eyes to the way women have been marginilized or forgotton in Art, history, literature, religion, science etc

Also The Road by Cormack McCarthy and The Sparrow. Two books that brought out strong emotions in me.
( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 9:06, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

oooh! you read The Sparrow - isn't it brilliant!
I bloody hated The Road, though. Everyone raved about it, I just wanted them to get the fuck on and die so I didn't have to keep reading
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 9:11, Reply)

Have you read the second book? Can't remember the name.

( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 9:18, Reply)

Das Autobahn?

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 9:18, Reply)

I fucking love Kraftwerk.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 9:20, Reply)

Kommon Sie Bitte
Und listen to Kraftwerk
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 9:23, Reply)

children of God
yes I have. It was out of print until very recently. Not read it for ages as I lent it to someone, but if I remember correctly it was even more traumatic :( In a good way
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 9:19, Reply)

At the same time, men have been marginalised and forgotten in the bearing and raising of children.
Could these two things possibly be related?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 9:14, Reply)

Are you saying that that is women's fault?
It's only recently that men have expressed a desire to help raise the children in a much more hands on capacity.
( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 9:17, Reply)

I'm saying that to a certain extent it's biology's 'fault'.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 9:19, Reply)

'fault' is not so important
so much as working out how to put it right
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 9:22, Reply)

Maybe but only slightly.
For example. When archeology and pre-history was first studied, like many subjects, it was an all male pass time. These male archeologists bought to the subject their rigid sexism and everything that was hypothosized was given a male perspective. To them there was no concept that women could have invented fire, language or the wheel.

I had never thought about that kind of thing before. It began to open my eyes to what I've been taught to believe about history in general.
( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 9:32, Reply)

Fucking women, always fucking moaning.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 9:35, Reply)

and boys just think with their cocks

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 9:37, Reply)

There's three suitable places for women;
The bedroom, the kitchen and the disco.

copyright Ron Atkinson...

perhaps they are marginalised because at the time they were focussed solely on nurturing and invented fuck all of note (although did provide the future of the species).
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Mon 31 Jan 2011, 11:31, Reply)