Story time with the feminists...and some trannies

I bought some good books today to help me with my project (and to give me something to read in the five hours sat in Melancholy). I want to look more at stereotypes within gender and hyper femininity/masculinity (I think I mentioned this before) but also hypersexuality, which I believe is the way in which females (not exclusively but more obviously so than males) are portrayed by the media and by ourselves. So I've ended up getting a couple of feminist books of which I've only properly looked at one and so far I've found it really interesting and have enjoyed it. It's called "Living Dolls, The Return of Sexism" written by Natasha Walter, who is also the author of a book called "The New Feminism".

So I haven't finished reading it yet but so far it has prompted some fab ideas for how to move my project on so it seems to have been a good purchase, for me anyway. I'll maybe do a bit of a review when I finish reading it but until then you can see it reviewed here... http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1844087093/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_dg9xpb16PT2XM There's a good mix of positive and negative reviews.

The other book I bought is called "Female Chauvinist Pigs, Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture" by Ariel Levy, I haven't really looked at it yet but again it is reviewed quite well on Amazon... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Female-Chauvinist-Pigs-Raunch-Culture/dp/1416526382/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331681433&sr=1-1

Finally the third book has been purchased from amazon so hasn't arrived yet, I asked at a few book shops but it seems that it went out of print at some point. It's a book by Peter Ackroyd called "Dressing Up, Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession". It's a factual book about the reasons why men feel the need to dress in drag but remain as males, the fetish behind transvetisim, etc. Should be a good read and useful to my work.

I can't really find any reviews on this book that are useful, so maybe I'll do one when I've read it.