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AuthorsHas anyone here read Robin Wall Kimmerer, Julia Steinberger, and Kate Raworth?
Posted August 26, 2023 by [Deleted] in Books

I saw this post on Radblr (the link is in the comments if anyone's interested) that states that Kimmerer, Steinberger, and Raworth are essential radfem reading and that radical feminism will go nowhere unless they become as popular as Dworkin or McKinnon (both of whom the TRAs already like to use against us because of their handmaiden status). So has anybody read their works? Where would one begin if one wanted to check them out?

OP had this to say about them

I picked those three women because they are economists with unique but complementary perspectives. We should not just be thinking and reading about patriarchy all day. We should also learn how systems science, energy, and thermodynamics shape all life. We should be learning about the complex web of life so we can forge a sustainable path into the future. That's the best weapon against an unsustainable system like patriarchy. We should design clever and resilient systems that can sustain women for thousands of years. Patriarchy is collapsing on its own. We need to let it go and embrace the future.

3 comments

samsdatAugust 27, 2023(Edited August 27, 2023)

I’ve read Braiding Sweetgrass but I will look for the others. Where would you start?

ETA: I misread your question, but I will definitely follow this thread!

interventionSeptember 4, 2023(Edited September 4, 2023)

I haven't read their books either, so I'm commenting to follow this thread.

Total agreement with the original post (and thanks to you for sharing it here)!

On my reading list currently are

  • Kate Raworth: Doughnut Economics
  • Linda Scott: The Double X Economy
  • Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass
  • Mariana Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State - Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
  • Mariana Mazzucato: The Value of Everything - Making and Taking in the Global Economy
  • Mariana Mazzucato: Mission Economy - A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

and I hope to read them soon! (although I have a very long reading list...)

Edit: I forgot to add some leads that I took from Caroline Criado Perez's excellent book "Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men", namely the economists Diane Coyle, Susan Himmelweit and the Women's Budget Group (a not-for-profit organisation that monitors the impact of government policies on men and women).