Books, Brothers and Birthday Presents

[eumelia]

So I ordered three books from Amazon.com (I stupidely got them shiped to Israel, but never mind I had a gift card so it was no big deal in any event).
One of them uber-geeky - Sex And The Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer For The Buffy Fan by Lorna Howllet.
And two by Judith Btler - Bodies that Matter and Gender Trouble.
Again, yeah I know it was silly to ship them home instead of here as it would have saved me money, but you live and learn right?
*sigh*
I feel like a dum-dum.

In happier notes, got my birthday gifst from Robbie (who arrived safe and sound, you can read his most recent entry on hemlock_sholes) - Got me two books; one which I've started reading: זהויות במדים: גבריות ונשיות בצבא הישראלי ע"י אורנה ששון לוי in English it's titles Identities in Uniform: Masculinities and Femininities in the Israeli Army by Orna Sasson-Levy. It's very academic, but it's not written in a boring way and I haven't asked anyone to explain new words to me, so I'm feeling fairly intelligent reading this.
The other book is לא רוצות להיות נחמדות: המאבק על זכות הבחירה וראשיתו של הפמיניזם החדש בישראל ע"י חנה ספרן which in English is Don't wanna be nice girls: The struggle for suffrage and the new feminism in Israel by Hannah Safran.

All in all not a bad selection of new books, I think I'll need a new bookshelf for all my new books.
I'm really proud of them all, especially since I was a very late comer to the world of reading, my first "real" book was Jane Ayre which I read for the first time when I was twelve. That's not an early age to become a bookworm, when all your siblings were big readers since they... well since they could actually read!

Comments

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I still feel like a dum dum... But a happy one none the less.

[orcabee.livejournal.com]

as long as you're happy. it's all that matters :)