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What are some radical feminist books?
I have book reports to do for school and I need books. I preferably want a book that fully embraces radical feminism. Any suggestions?
Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly is a good one. She looks at examples of various practices around the world, from foot binding in China to suttee in India to certain surgeries in the US, and shows how all of these practices, while wildly different, all are interconnected in how they serve as a means where men as a class oppress women as a class. It's a great book and while the subject matter is horrific, it's always interesting, and in my opinion, much easier to read than, say, books by Andrea Dworkin (whose writing I also love and admire).
I just published a massive 710-page anthology of current radical feminist theory, including chapters by Sheila Jeffreys, Gail Dines, Raquel Rosario Sánchez, Cherry Smiley, Bec Wonders, Angela Wild, Renee Gerlich, Yagmur Uygarkizi, Linda Bellos, M.K. Fain, Nina Paley, and dozens of other radical feminists! It's called "Spinning and Weaving: Radical Feminism for the 21st Century," and you can read all about the book and purchase it here: https://spinningandweaving.org/
A brand new anthology just went on sale a few days ago! www.spinningandweaving.org
That link doesn't work for me. Do you have more details, please?
Sorry I took so long to reply. It's a newly released collection of radical feminist essays. Hopefully this link works!
I'm the editor of the book. The URL is https://spinningandweaving.org/
Andrea Dworkin's are all available for free at radfem.org as is The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism. One of the essays in Part 4, Sexuality in the Sexual Liberals was so good, and I'm trying to find which one it is.
I've also read Radical Feminism, A Documentary Reader, The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, most of The Female Mystique when I was younger, and the Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer, started Pornland by Gail Dines. I'm starting Women, Class, and Race by Angela Davis and Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation by Mary Daly, which I am super excited for. I am especially excited for the chapter, Transvaluation of Values: the End of Phallic Morality in Beyond God the Father.
Btw lots of books can be read/listened to at scribd.com for $10 a month. Why people use audible instead is beyond me.
u/girl_undone recently wrote a recommended reading list! I'm sure she won't mind if I just copy and paste it for you.
Recommended books:
Carol Anne Douglas:
Shulamith Firestone:
Kate Millet:
Marilyn Frye:
Ti-Grace Atkinson:
Robin Morgan:
Anne Koedt:
Andrea Dworkin:
Right Wing Women
Pornography: Men Possessing Women
Intercourse
Sheila Jeffries:
Susan Brownmiller:
Femininity
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
Dorchen Leidholdt & Janice G. Raymond (editors):
These are all good to great, but so many of them are from so long ago that I read them at uni 30 years ago (and a couple were already 10 or more years old then). Has there really been so little rad fem writing published since then?
Check out this brand new anthology! www.spinningandweaving.org
Just got it in the mail and simply cannot put it down!
The URL is https://spinningandweaving.org/
Oh, right, new books. The ones I've seen are on specific topics e.g. gender ideology or prostitution. Sheila Jeffreys has written a few books since 2000 (beauty and misogyny, gender hurts, the industrial vagina) for example. Julie Bindel wrote the pimping of prostitution in 2017.
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