The Anhoek School’s FEMINIST READ-A-THON: WHAT IS FEMINIST LITERATURE? (February 2011).
The Feminist Read-A-Thon is part fundraiser/ part class of The Anhoek School. We are attempting to begin answering the question ‘WHAT IS FEMINIST LITERATURE?’ Readers will make their own selections of ‘feminist literature.’ The only guidelines are that the books should be:
- Fiction
- Books that you (the reader) has never read before
Our reasons are both practical and scholarly. A READ-A-THON as fundraiser retains the possibilities of conversation and transmission: each reader potentially discusses what they have read and why with their sponsors and fellow readers. Because the cultural relevancy of books, feminists, and fictions is intermittently under fire, we take this opportunity to investigate. And, more than answers, we hope to discover an even more vexed space in which we can try to talk about feminisms.
The Anhoek School is a nomadic and experimental school currently based out of Brooklyn with small classes (a limit of seven students per class), and teachers who are invested in challenging the power structures inherent in how and what people are taught. We aim to offer these classes free of cost to the students but still pay the teachers fairly for their labor.
You can volunteer to be a reader or to sponsor a reader.
If you have any questions or are interested in being a reader or sponsoring a reader, please contact us at feministreadathon@gmail.com
For more information see: http://www.anhoekschool.org/readathon.html
