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What's on your feminist/women's studies reading list?

What's on your feminist/women's studies reading list?

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Nov 20 2024, 2:36 PM
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I have a huge general reading list, and there is a genre of "women's studies" in there.

For starters, I need to finish the last chapter of Right-Wing Women! I had started that as a bookclub on Ovarit and then I got busy and never got to the last chapter. 🥲 It's so quotable.

Then I have this collection of books that I want to get to:
  • The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner
  • A Brief History of Misogyny by Jack Holland
  • Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez
  • All About Love by bell hooks
  • We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

They're all waiting to be read. 🥲

Do you have any women's studies books you want to read?
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Nov 20 2024, 2:36 PM #1

I have a huge general reading list, and there is a genre of "women's studies" in there.

For starters, I need to finish the last chapter of Right-Wing Women! I had started that as a bookclub on Ovarit and then I got busy and never got to the last chapter. 🥲 It's so quotable.

Then I have this collection of books that I want to get to:

  • The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner
  • A Brief History of Misogyny by Jack Holland
  • Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez
  • All About Love by bell hooks
  • We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

They're all waiting to be read. 🥲

Do you have any women's studies books you want to read?

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Nov 20 2024, 4:28 PM
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I have a whole pile of unread books. The next on the pile is Hags by Victoria Smith.
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Nov 20 2024, 4:28 PM #2

I have a whole pile of unread books. The next on the pile is Hags by Victoria Smith.

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Nov 20 2024, 6:05 PM
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Invisible women is great! I also recommend Who cooked the last supper? by Rosalind Miles.

From my To Read list:
* any of Dworkins books
* When God Was A Woman by Merlin Stone
* Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
* Marxism and the Oppression of women by Lisa Vogel
* All in Her Head by Elizabeth Comen
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Nov 20 2024, 6:05 PM #3

Invisible women is great! I also recommend Who cooked the last supper? by Rosalind Miles.

From my To Read list:
* any of Dworkins books
* When God Was A Woman by Merlin Stone
* Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
* Marxism and the Oppression of women by Lisa Vogel
* All in Her Head by Elizabeth Comen

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Dec 21 2024, 3:40 PM
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"Invisible Women" is literally the next thing I'm reading when I finish a current book. I've read excerpts and I read Caroline's substack here and there, but I want to read the book beginning to end.
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Dec 21 2024, 3:40 PM #4

"Invisible Women" is literally the next thing I'm reading when I finish a current book. I've read excerpts and I read Caroline's substack here and there, but I want to read the book beginning to end.

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Dec 30 2024, 12:40 PM
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Hey, Ive read a couple of the books mentioned here and have a few others on my list as well!

I'm reading Beyond the Periphery of the Skin by Silvia Federici as part of the book club on Ovarit.
I've read some of Invisible Women and need to finish it.
Right Wing Women is also on my list, as is The Creation of Patriarchy.
I'm interested in reading some of Mary Daly's work and some of Sonia Johnson's as well.

I just recently quit school so I'm finally rekindling my motivation to read for pleasure. I've mostly been consuming a lot of thriller/mysteries for the time being, I tend to get seasonal depression and sometimes the monumental task of women's liberation gets me down and discouraged.

On the topic of books, I find I try to spend my money and attention on female authors and if I really want to read something by a man, I try to get it used or at the local library. It's funny how I rarely read anything by a male author anymore.

ETA: On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman by Kajsa Ekis Ekman was very good, obviously that one is on the topic of trans ideology from a gender critical standpoint.
Edited Dec 30 2024, 12:49 PM by ShameMustChangeSides.
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Dec 30 2024, 12:40 PM #5

Hey, Ive read a couple of the books mentioned here and have a few others on my list as well!

I'm reading Beyond the Periphery of the Skin by Silvia Federici as part of the book club on Ovarit.
I've read some of Invisible Women and need to finish it.
Right Wing Women is also on my list, as is The Creation of Patriarchy.
I'm interested in reading some of Mary Daly's work and some of Sonia Johnson's as well.

I just recently quit school so I'm finally rekindling my motivation to read for pleasure. I've mostly been consuming a lot of thriller/mysteries for the time being, I tend to get seasonal depression and sometimes the monumental task of women's liberation gets me down and discouraged.

On the topic of books, I find I try to spend my money and attention on female authors and if I really want to read something by a man, I try to get it used or at the local library. It's funny how I rarely read anything by a male author anymore.

ETA: On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman by Kajsa Ekis Ekman was very good, obviously that one is on the topic of trans ideology from a gender critical standpoint.

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Jan 1 2025, 11:00 AM
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ShameMustChangeSides, I love that you chose that as a username.

"Right WIng Women" is another one I want to read, because I'm hoping it'll help me understand those women more and not be as knee-jerk hostile as I can sometimes be.
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Jan 1 2025, 11:00 AM #6

ShameMustChangeSides, I love that you chose that as a username.

"Right WIng Women" is another one I want to read, because I'm hoping it'll help me understand those women more and not be as knee-jerk hostile as I can sometimes be.

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Jan 1 2025, 12:56 PM
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I started reading Hags! :) Really enjoying it so far. I also need to read Right-Wing Women!

Not sure if they count as specifically feminist books, but I really enjoyed Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender and Testosterone Rex. Would highly recommend to anyone interested in exploring the so-called "scientific explanations" for gender and debunking the "biological/scientific" justifications for sexism.
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Jan 1 2025, 12:56 PM #7

I started reading Hags! :) Really enjoying it so far. I also need to read Right-Wing Women!

Not sure if they count as specifically feminist books, but I really enjoyed Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender and Testosterone Rex. Would highly recommend to anyone interested in exploring the so-called "scientific explanations" for gender and debunking the "biological/scientific" justifications for sexism.

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Feb 12 2025, 2:56 AM
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I recently read "Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self" by Kajsa Ekis Ekman which I highly recommend!

I've got "Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work" by Jenny Brown and "Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference" by Cordelia Fine on my radar too.

I'll be taking some inspiration from this thread 👀✍
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Feb 12 2025, 2:56 AM #8

I recently read "Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self" by Kajsa Ekis Ekman which I highly recommend!

I've got "Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work" by Jenny Brown and "Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference" by Cordelia Fine on my radar too.

I'll be taking some inspiration from this thread 👀✍

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Feb 12 2025, 4:07 AM
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Oldies but goodies:

Reflecting Men at Twice Their Natural Size - Cline and Spender
How to Suppress Women's Writing - Russ

Both quick easy fun reads - I've annotated paper copies of each and sent them off to fellow feminists to do the same - if anyone wants to join the 'chain letter' get in touch.
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Feb 12 2025, 4:07 AM #9

Oldies but goodies:

Reflecting Men at Twice Their Natural Size - Cline and Spender
How to Suppress Women's Writing - Russ

Both quick easy fun reads - I've annotated paper copies of each and sent them off to fellow feminists to do the same - if anyone wants to join the 'chain letter' get in touch.

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Feb 12 2025, 11:42 PM
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I got about a third of the way through Hags and very much enjoyed it before I was forced to put it on pause because of classes and Life Stuff. I remember especially liking chapter 2! ("Beastly Hag")

Because I had Hags on my Christmas wishlist, a feminist-interested (but it's lib/choice/TIM-inclusive ""feminism"") relative also gifted me some books I haven't heard of before: I Belong Deeply to Myself by Dallas Taylor and Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. I've been both hoping and dreading what I'll find inside honestly haha. Has anyone heard of these, and can recommend them (or not)? Still willing to give them a shot either way, sometimes there are a few actual-feminism diamonds you can find in the popular-feminism rough!

(Jan 1 2025, 12:56 PM)komorebi Not sure if they count as specifically feminist books, but I really enjoyed Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender and Testosterone Rex. Would highly recommend to anyone interested in exploring the so-called "scientific explanations" for gender and debunking the "biological/scientific" justifications for sexism.

Thank you for these recs komorebi! :)

As interesting as the philosophical back-and-forth is for pro- and anti-transgender ideology, and as insightful as the gender-critical criticisms of it are for people willing to listen to them, I've always felt that there's a (distressingly big) crowd who will never be convinced out of it so long as they believe they're doing the right thing. (Or "more right thing" a la "trans women are more oppressed than cis women so it's fine to prioritize the former at the expense of the latter".) But it's pretty hard to argue against proven increased risks and rates of osteoporosis, infertility, certain cancers, etc.

(And if that doesn't matter to people, then they're very much a lost cause and can't be helped by any means we currently know of imo. Maybe we should study and interview former anti-vaxxers—if any exist—to figure out how? idk)
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Feb 12 2025, 11:42 PM #10

I got about a third of the way through Hags and very much enjoyed it before I was forced to put it on pause because of classes and Life Stuff. I remember especially liking chapter 2! ("Beastly Hag")

Because I had Hags on my Christmas wishlist, a feminist-interested (but it's lib/choice/TIM-inclusive ""feminism"") relative also gifted me some books I haven't heard of before: I Belong Deeply to Myself by Dallas Taylor and Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. I've been both hoping and dreading what I'll find inside honestly haha. Has anyone heard of these, and can recommend them (or not)? Still willing to give them a shot either way, sometimes there are a few actual-feminism diamonds you can find in the popular-feminism rough!

(Jan 1 2025, 12:56 PM)komorebi Not sure if they count as specifically feminist books, but I really enjoyed Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender and Testosterone Rex. Would highly recommend to anyone interested in exploring the so-called "scientific explanations" for gender and debunking the "biological/scientific" justifications for sexism.

Thank you for these recs komorebi! :)

As interesting as the philosophical back-and-forth is for pro- and anti-transgender ideology, and as insightful as the gender-critical criticisms of it are for people willing to listen to them, I've always felt that there's a (distressingly big) crowd who will never be convinced out of it so long as they believe they're doing the right thing. (Or "more right thing" a la "trans women are more oppressed than cis women so it's fine to prioritize the former at the expense of the latter".) But it's pretty hard to argue against proven increased risks and rates of osteoporosis, infertility, certain cancers, etc.

(And if that doesn't matter to people, then they're very much a lost cause and can't be helped by any means we currently know of imo. Maybe we should study and interview former anti-vaxxers—if any exist—to figure out how? idk)

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