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coordJune 29, 2024

Maybe it would be equal adding my basics, so I want to replace the chart with:

  • Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly
  • books and articles by Janice Raymond
  • Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy
  • Right Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin
  • SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas
  • Dykes loving Dykes by Bev Jo, Linda Strega
  • Pessimistische Kardinalsätze by Helene von Druskowitz
  • Die Rechtlosigkeit der Frau im Rechtsstaat, and other books and articles by Hannelore Schröder
  • articles by Kerstin Kempker (antipsychology activist and survivor of psycho jail, She doesn't believe in 'feminist therapy')
Lampdarker [OP]July 3, 2024

These are excellent recs, thank you.

brigidstearsMarch 26, 2024(Edited March 26, 2024)

Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici. It is a Marxist analysis of the naturalization of women's reproductive labor during the industrial revolution.

Lampdarker [OP]March 26, 2024

The nitty gritty of the history aspect is on somewhat shaky ground but otherwise, it's definitely a great book from a theoretical perspective.

SyndaballetMarch 26, 2024

I was told not to read this book because it's "transphobic." All the more reason to read it now.

Lampdarker [OP]March 26, 2024

I don't want to monopolize the discussion but aside from the great stuff that's already been mentioned

In no particular order:

  • A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

  • Laugh of Medusa by Helene Cixous

  • Right-Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin.

  • Under Western Eyes by Chandra Talpade Mohanty

befanaMarch 27, 2024

Abdullah Öcalan's book needs to be subtracted. Obviously as a man you can terrify your wife and still write a much-read book about feminism.

TheChaliceIsMightierMarch 26, 2024

The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler, The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

Lampdarker [OP]March 26, 2024

Eisler and Lerner are both excellent authors.

TheChaliceIsMightierMarch 26, 2024

The Chalice and the Blade changed my whole worldview. I was becoming pretty blackpilled

UnicornMarch 26, 2024

This book sounds really nice. I'm adding it to my reading list, thank you for mentioning it!

Lampdarker [OP]March 26, 2024

I'm just now noticing your username.

TheChaliceIsMightierMarch 26, 2024

Yes, that book was the inspiration

nemesisMarch 27, 2024

Women and Economics (1898) by Charlotte Perkins. You can read it on Project Gutenberg here.

CaeruleaMarch 27, 2024

I started reading it. Very interesting! Thanks for the link.

dragonheartMarch 26, 2024

I quite like Zami and Your Silence Will Not Protect you by Audre Lorde; it explores how both class and race intersect with womanhood.

DerpinaMarch 26, 2024

Scum manifest?

[Deleted]March 26, 2024

Our Bodies, Our Crimes by Jeanne Flavin

AmareldysMarch 26, 2024

The First Sex by Elizabeth Gould Davis

somegenerichandleMarch 26, 2024

I think Women's Ways of Knowing and Reproducing Motherhood were pretty influential to me. Alice Jaggar's "Love and Knowlege" too. You can probably see i like epistemology...

I would probably add bell hooks, if her work is too daunting, start with Belonging: a culture of place. And some of the older internationalists like Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands.

I'm surprised to see Engles. Don't get me wrong, he's influential, i'm just not sure he's a feminist.

pennygadgetMarch 26, 2024(Edited March 26, 2024)

I would replace Angela Davis with Ayaan Hirsi Ali and add some Dworken titles

PotionsMarch 27, 2024

Feminine Mystique- Betty Friedan

WatcherattheGatesMarch 26, 2024

The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman.

womenopausalMarch 26, 2024

I think it wants Delphy and Leonard's Familiar Exploitation