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RE: What's on your feminist/women's studies reading list? - magdalyn - Feb 21 2025
Books I have on my TBR pile:
Good and Mad / Rebecca Traister
Women of Ideas, and what men have done to them / Dale Spender
Backlash / Susan Faludi
Who Cooked the Last Supper? / Rosalind Miles
ain't i a woman / bell hooks
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement / Susannah Gibson
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials / Marion Gibson
The Heroine with 1,001 Faces / Maria Tatar
I have read Invisible Women, and it's amazing work.
I also read The Feminine Mystique / Betty Friedan during the pandemic, when my mom and I had a mother-daughter book club for a while.
While limited in scope, I found Friedan's analysis of the lives of middle class American housewives to be very enlightening re: my grandmothers. They were both very troubled women, and exactly of that generation of women that Friedan interviewed and described.
RE: What's on your feminist/women's studies reading list? - Persephone - Feb 22 2025
Seeing all these suggestions, I'll just butt in to ask - Clovenhooves book club when?
RE: What's on your feminist/women's studies reading list? - drdee - Feb 22 2025
'While limited in scope' - sorry, you've triggered a personal pet peeve for me.... Apparently when women write books they have to make sure they're writing about every demographic, particularly ones they don't belong to, or they're being too narrow at best and downright bigoted at worst. What, her analysis didn't address the experience of working-class black lesbian women? Well that was poor judgement on her part, she should have done better. Men, meanwhile, can write about whatever they want without being criticised for not writing about something/someone else.
Just reflecting on this more - I'm guessing it's because women are interchangeable, and all pretty much the same - so a woman writing about women would be expected to be writing about all women. Whereas each man is a separate unique special individual, so he can write about his own experience without the expectation that it should be generalisable to all men.
RE: What's on your feminist/women's studies reading list? - Clover - Feb 22 2025
(Feb 22 2025, 4:18 AM)Persephone Seeing all these suggestions, I'll just butt in to ask - Clovenhooves book club when?That would be really fun! We just gotta pick a book. :)
RE: What's on your feminist/women's studies reading list? - komorebi - Feb 22 2025
(Feb 22 2025, 12:50 PM)Clover(Feb 22 2025, 4:18 AM)Persephone Seeing all these suggestions, I'll just butt in to ask - Clovenhooves book club when?That would be really fun! We just gotta pick a book. :)
I'd be willing to do one for Hags, since that's the book I'm in the middle of! I didn't really like the idea of making a new post for every chapter—felt a bit spammy and decentralized—but I also wasn't sure of a good way to organize it. What do you think, Clover?
RE: What's on your feminist/women's studies reading list? - Clover - Feb 23 2025
(Feb 22 2025, 11:22 PM)komorebi(Feb 22 2025, 12:50 PM)Clover(Feb 22 2025, 4:18 AM)Persephone Seeing all these suggestions, I'll just butt in to ask - Clovenhooves book club when?That would be really fun! We just gotta pick a book. :)
I'd be willing to do one for Hags, since that's the book I'm in the middle of! I didn't really like the idea of making a new post for every chapter—felt a bit spammy and decentralized—but I also wasn't sure of a good way to organize it. What do you think, Clover?
Yeah I wish we could do "sub threads" somehow that would be useful in this case. 😭 I personally did the online bookclubs on Ovarit with a chapter per post because I didn't care about being spammy.
And then at the end I made a "main post" that includes links to all chapters. Another user suggested subforums for each author in The Library. We could make one for Victoria Smith? Then the chapters could be contained in that forum.
RE: What's on your feminist/women's studies reading list? - Joen - Feb 23 2025
Woman and Nature - Susan Griffin (currently reading)
Feminist Revolution - the Redstockings Collective
Women, Race, and Class - Angela Y. Davis