What we’re about
Our mission is to foster feminist community in Sacramento primarily via a shared love of books, but also through building a community that could include other events such as social meetups, movies, food, etc. We're a social group open to people of all identities who consider themselves feminist and want to expand their feminist network and knowledge. Most meetings involve a book club discussion and then optionally moving to a nearby venue for a drink or food if you have time to hang out.
A $2 donation is requested at all of our events, but definitely not required.
We don’t believe there is one true way to be a feminist. This group is about exploring ideas and learning together. We will read promiscuously from a variety of feminist camps and try to understand the history of feminism and its current struggles. We're going to look at feminism from a big picture perspective and then take a fine-tooth comb and look for the feminism that is hidden under a rock in the corner. We might even read books that are not feminist at all, but then we’ll try to use a feminist lens to understand them.
Books are selected two months out so you have time to read the book (and also get it from the library if you prefer). We vote democratically on which books to read, so think of a book or two you'd like the group to read and bring it up at the meeting.
Yes, it’s OK if you didn’t finish the book.
Come for the awesome books, stay for the awesome feminist friends you’ll make.
We are a sister book club to the San Diego Feminist Book Club.
Upcoming events (2)
See all- June Book Club: All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister3325 Folsom Blvd, Sacramento, CA
We will gather and introduce ourselves and then spend about 70 minutes talking about the book. We try to bring a feminist perspective to every book discussion. And yes, it's OK if you didn't finish the book.
At the end of our time, we'll hold a vote for the book we'll be reading two months from now. Please bring books that you think might be interesting for the group or that you've been hoping to read!
Folks that have the time are welcome to join for a social beverage at a nearby venue.
We are an inclusive group that welcomes everyone who identifies as feminist or is curious about feminism or at least wants to read feminist books.
For this month, we will be reading All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of the Independent Nation.
Book description: The New York Times bestselling investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women is “an informative and thought-provoking book for anyone—not just the single ladies—who want to gain a greater understanding of this pivotal moment in the history of the United States” (The New York Times Book Review).
In 2009, award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started All the Single Ladies about the twenty-first century phenomenon of the American single woman. It was the year the proportion of American women who were married dropped below fifty percent; and the median age of first marriages, which had remained between twenty and twenty-two years old for nearly a century (1890–1980), had risen dramatically to twenty-seven.
But over the course of her vast research and more than a hundred interviews with academics and social scientists and prominent single women, Traister discovered a startling truth: the phenomenon of the single woman in America is not a new one. And historically, when women were given options beyond early heterosexual marriage, the results were massive social change—temperance, abolition, secondary education, and more. Today, only twenty percent of Americans are married by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960.
- July Book Club: Women Who Run with the Wolves3325 Folsom Blvd, Sacramento, CA$10.00
We will gather and introduce ourselves and then spend about 70 minutes talking about the book. We try to bring a feminist perspective to every book discussion. And yes, it's OK if you didn't finish the book.
At the end of our time, we'll hold a vote for the book we'll be reading two months from now. Please bring books that you think might be interesting for the group or that you've been hoping to read!
Folks that have the time are welcome to join for a social beverage at a nearby venue.
We are an inclusive group that welcomes everyone who identifies as feminist or is curious about feminism or at least wants to read feminist books.
For this month, we will be reading Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
Location: Note we are confirming the location in East Sacramento. Check back for the address!
Book description:
Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society’s attempt to “civilize” us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls.In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine.
Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.