Daily Kos - As The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent notes in a recent look at the growing fallout from Iowa’s book-banning law, a lot of indispensable titles are getting caught up like dolphins in the tuna net—because the measure oafishly excludes any book that contains a “sex act.”
This week, the Iowa City Community School District released a list of 68 books that it removed from schools to comply with the law. Among the titles: “Ulysses” by James Joyce, “Nineteen Minutes” by Jodi Picoult, “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood and “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison.
The Iowa law requires K-12 schools to remove materials that depict any one of a series of sex acts that include intercourse and other types of genital contact. The law also bans instruction on gender identity or sexual orientation before seventh grade.
Beyond Iowa City, the Des Moines Register reports that school districts across the state have removed hundreds of books from their school libraries, also in response to that law. Among these titles: “1984” by George Orwell, “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut and “Forrest Gump” by Winston Groom.
2 comments:
I checked the list.
1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Days Of Infamy, and The Rape Of Nanking should be on the list of Required reading. And not to be pedantic but the book ‘1984’ is not spelled ‘1,984’.
Others, like Corn Goddess you might think would be wildly accepted in Iowa.
Flowers For Algernon, Forrest Gump, Memoirs Of A Geisha, Slaughterhouse-Five, Sold, Sophie's Choice, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Handmaid's Tale, and possibly Wicked may not all be ‘light-reading’ but do school districts want their students to be like Woody Boyd from Cheers?
Will TFG's biography be 'Banned In Iowa'?
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