Feminist Book Club Glasgow

We are an informal book club with a focus on feminist authors and books. Future reads are set by the group. You should be able to get a copy via Glasgow Libraries.

• Author Visit. Come and hear May East talk to us about her new book What if Women Designed the City. 33 leverage points to make your city work better for women and girls. Included are many examples of Glasgow and Cllr Holly Bruce's introduction of Glasgow being a Feminity City. Thursday 18th April at 6pm (TBC) in The Mitchell Library's Let's Talk space on hte ground floor.

• Scotland Herstory. The Nation's History by the women who lived it. Edited by Rosemary Goring. Tuesday 7th May at 6.30pm in The Mitchell Library's Let's Talk space on the ground floor

• Social Night. Tuesday 11th June. Join anytime from 6pm until 7.45pm in The Mitchell Library's Let's Talk space on threground floor.

• Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park and Translated by Anton Hur. Tuesday 9th July at 6.30pmin The Mitchell Library's Let's Talk Space on the ground floor. (if its sunny we'll meet in a local park!)

Sometimes a little trip to the pub after for anyone wishing to join.

Previous reads include Beloved by Toni Morrison, Being Emily by Anne Donnovan, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez, Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Becoming by Michelle Obama, The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo, Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay, The Burning by Laura Bates, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy, Watermelon by Marian Keyes, A Decolonial Feminism by Françoise Vergès, Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, Black on Both Sides: A Racial history of Trans Identity by C Riley Snorton , All About Love by bell hooks and Against The Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa and I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, Feminist City by Leslie Kern, Mask Off-Masculinity Redefined by JJ Bola, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, You Made A Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi, Bunny by Mona Awad, Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir.

Feel free to contact us with any questions via feministbookclubglasgow@gmail.com or on Instagram @Feministbookclubglasgow

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