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Book DownloadEarly and first wave feminist literature
Someone asked me on here last year where to find suffragette writings, and I promised her (I assume it was a her) that I'd provide download links soon, but then I unfortunately forgot about it for I was on the road for months, for which I'm truly sorry. Now as Ovarit is closing, I'm reminded of my promise. To make amends for my forgetfulness and offer a parting gift to fellow Ovarettes, I've decided to include the writings of a few more women, mostly from Britain and the US. I chose to omit Mary Wollstonecraft as she is still well-known today and her works easily accessible. If anyone knows where to find early feminist literature in other languages online, feel free to make a comment. I've recommended the series The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe in the past, but it's not free. You may also want to consult A Celebration of Women Writers to see if it's possible to read a particular woman's writings online.
Mary Astell
Olympe de Gouges (English translations) https://olympedegouges.eu/chronological-works/
Harriet Taylor
While On the Subjection of Women (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27083) is usually attributed to John Stuart Mill alone, he actually credited Taylor and her daughter, Helen Taylor, Mill's stepdaughter, in his autobiography,
The other treatise written at this time was published some years later under the title The Subjection of Women. It was written at my daughter’s suggestion that there should be in existence a written exposition—as full and conclusive as I could make it—of my opinions on that great question. The intention was to keep this among other unpublished papers, improving it from time to time if I was able, and to publish it at the time when it seemed likely to be most useful. As ultimately published it was enriched with some important ideas of my daughter’s and some passages of her writing. But all that is most striking and profound in what was written by me belongs to my wife, coming from the fund of thought that had been made common to us both by our innumerable conversations and discussions on a topic that filled so large a place in our minds.
Emily Davies, The Higher Education of Women https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/69125
Josephine Butler
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34856
Christabel Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst, The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement 1905-1910 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54955
Annie Kenney, Memories of a Militant https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.201549
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, My Part in a Changing World https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000041588074
Lady Constance Lytton, Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/52944
The following, except Cicely Hamilton's Marriage as a Trade, are works of suffrage drama, poetry, and fiction.
Cicely Hamilton
Elizabeth Robins
Evelyn Sharp, Rebel Women https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42136
Constance Elizabeth Maud, No Surrender https://archive.org/details/nosurrender00maudgoog
(Audiobook: https://librivox.org/no-surrender-by-constance-elizabeth-maud/)
Mary Cholmondeley, Votes for Men https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/40947/pg40947-images.html#Votes_for_Men3
Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8642
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Alice Duer Miller, Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11689
Matilda Joslyn Gage, Woman, Church and State https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45580
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper, The History of Woman Suffrage
Alice Stone Blackwell (daughter of Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell), Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Woman's Rights https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206455
For Marxist writers on women's issues, check out the Marxists Internet Archive.
This seems like the kind of book that people will read and rave about to seem woke/current, and only years later will they admit they didn't actually like it and/or couldn't finish it.
And they'll still be loving Harry Potter. ;3
Watched JK Rowling's interview with Oprah the other day. Oprah asked her how she felt knowing that one day, every child will know who Harry Potter is. Sent chills down my spine.
Was never a HP fan but I've always admired JK- even openly talked about it with people for years before all of this. The woman went from single mother on welfare to billionaire all on her own. She's a domestic violence survivor. I don't know why people are surprised that she stands with women. Love her.
The silver lining seems to be getting the idea that people do DE-transition out there more.
The title had me excited, then I read the synopsis. Can I report this book for being a bait and switch? 😆
FYI, the author is a man, so it's likely some weird autogynephilic fantasy.
Update: Yep. Dude is a fucking weirdo. Here's an excerpt description of a novella he wrote:
After a party on the Las Vegas Strip, a young sissy must choose between her internet fantasy of forced feminization at the hands of a mysterious handsome man, or the difficult reality of transition with the help of a sisterly transsexual woman.
once it was about transwomen I knew it was a dude writing. I'd be shocked if it wasn't at least A LITTLE porny.
We are going to see more books like this get published, in the drive for inclusivity.
From the reviews I read it's: a queer, messy, and Trans erotica wrapped in a three-way romantic comedy.
"Beautifully written!"
Highly doubtful 😅!
They might get published, or Amazon "published" but if they don't make money, they won't keep getting published.
But what do I know, it's not like supply and demand apply to these people.
I finally read the WSJ article about getting rid of the Classics in School libraries for children, because they are "problematic."
This is Generation Q. Mediocrity is their brand.
The "reviews" (pandering as anything) reminded me how anyone not trans/queer/special/whatever is meant to be kind and inclusive. One reviewer admitted that "cis people" would not like the book, possibly because they have a grip on reality.
Should have guessed it was written as a fantasy by a man.
My eyes are rolling into the back of my head just trying to read the first few sentences... There's a lot going on there!
Wait what? I need my decoder ring for this... So Reese is a "transbian" TIM...in a relationship with a TIM....who starts to live as a man again... So we're talking about two gay men...and then one starts sleeping with married (straight or not) men in order to ....what? If his guy is back to being a guy, why not just sleep with him? This sounds ripe for some "their wives don't treat them right" BS.
And that's just the first paragraph of the description! Wait until you get to the bit about one of them getting a woman pregnant!
That makes no sense. This man is now in a relationship with a woman...and she is about to have a child that is biologically theirs... but she may not want children. Sooooo...how is this the moment to rope in a random man who is going to be triggered AF around a pregnant woman and has nothing to do with her or this child? "Remember that threeway I mentioned before darling? What if it came with free child care so you don't wear out your lady brain? LOL FOH.
So he’s going to shame a woman into not getting an abortion. That’s not regressive and conservative at all.
To force her to continue the pregnancy and be a surrogate?
One of the reviewers (a TIM) said it was "the best book about womanhood and gender" they'd ever read, and I guess in a horrible way, maybe they're they're right. 🙄
Someone think of the children!
Kids can adapt to almost anything (whether they should have to or not is another convo)... I bet the adults here are significantly more fragile. Kids can be brutal though. That almost inevitable "you can't tell me what to do- you're not my real mom!"... if misgendering is literal violence... I can't imagine how someone that emotionally frail would cope when falling apart isn't an option.