Federation is excited to announce the launch of our very own statewide book club!
The suggestion for a book club came from our members, wanting to have a space to connect with like-minded teachers and have rich discussions about texts.
The club will run via Zoom, after school hours. This means you can get a group together for wine and cheese (if you so wish).
We know teachers’ workload demands are high and don’t leave much time for the things they love, so our book club will meet just once a term.
How the book club will work
In each edition of Education Quarterly we will announce the next book for discussion.
Interested members need to register for the next book club meeting via our online form (below), then read (or listen) to the book (you will need to source your own copy).
An email with the date, time and zoom link for the book club meeting will be sent in week 4 to those who have registered.
Our first book: How to Suppress Women’s Writing by Joanna Russ
By the author of The Female Man, How to Suppress Women’s Writing is a provocative survey of the forces that work against women who dare to write.
“She didn’t write it. She wrote it but she shouldn’t have. She wrote it but look what she wrote about. She wrote it but she isn’t really an artist, and it isn’t really art. She wrote it but she had help. She wrote it but she’s an anomaly. She wrote it BUT…”
How to Suppress Women’s Writing is a meticulously researched and humorously written ‘guidebook’ to the many ways women and other minorities have been barred from producing written art. In chapters entitled “Prohibitions,” “Bad Faith,” “Denial of Agency,” Pollution of Agency,” “The Double Standard of Content,” “False Categorisation,” “Isolation,” “Anomalousness,” “Lack of Models,” Responses” and “Aesthetics”, Joanna Russ names, defines, and illustrates those barriers to art-making we may have felt but which tend to remain unnamed and thus unsolvable.
Register your interest today