My teen boys have to read 3-4 books for school this year… I figure they should be ones that will teach them something. Help me finds the best books to combat this misogyny epidemic thriving on all these social platforms.
the will to change by bell hooks, if you want to get really serious about it
Alice_Dare on
What age teens are they?
Latter_Goat_6683 on
I know this isn’t what you asked for, and hopefully others can address your question more directly, but another idea might be to give them books (depending on what genres they like) which have strong female role models or positive and healthy relationships between men and women. Sometimes stories and the relationships in them (friendship, allyship, family or romantic relationships) stick in our head much longer and more profoundly!
ThemisChosen on
Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett – female protagonist, and it’s a good gateway into the Discworld as a whole
NeighborhoodBroad939 on
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood? Or Handmaids Tale? I also think that books by Jonathan Lethem have really great and complex female characters while not being overtly about misogyny.
JoNightshade on
Give them Terry Pratchett.
owenwgreen on
I think the best advice I could give is find a genre they like and find books by woman and non-binary authors. For example, if they dig sci-fi/fantasy, you can’t go wrong with N.K. Jemisin, Becky Chambers, Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler, Charlie Jane Anders, Annalee Newitz, Martha Wells.
Infamous-Future6906 on
As a young fellow I got a lot from reading books with women/girls as protagonists that were the kind of books I’d be reading anyway. *Equal Rites* in the Discworld series comes to mind, as well as the other Witches books
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the will to change by bell hooks, if you want to get really serious about it
What age teens are they?
I know this isn’t what you asked for, and hopefully others can address your question more directly, but another idea might be to give them books (depending on what genres they like) which have strong female role models or positive and healthy relationships between men and women. Sometimes stories and the relationships in them (friendship, allyship, family or romantic relationships) stick in our head much longer and more profoundly!
Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett – female protagonist, and it’s a good gateway into the Discworld as a whole
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood? Or Handmaids Tale? I also think that books by Jonathan Lethem have really great and complex female characters while not being overtly about misogyny.
Give them Terry Pratchett.
I think the best advice I could give is find a genre they like and find books by woman and non-binary authors. For example, if they dig sci-fi/fantasy, you can’t go wrong with N.K. Jemisin, Becky Chambers, Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler, Charlie Jane Anders, Annalee Newitz, Martha Wells.
As a young fellow I got a lot from reading books with women/girls as protagonists that were the kind of books I’d be reading anyway. *Equal Rites* in the Discworld series comes to mind, as well as the other Witches books
You are doing an awesome job parenting!