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Another one I don't see here is The Mismeasure of Woman by Carol Tavris. Really good defense of egalitarian feminism as well as a good smackdown of biological reductionism.
If anyone can recommend a good biography of Hildegard of Bingen, I would appreciate it muchly. #feministbooks
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Scarlett is a woman ahead of her time and, I think, a feminist. A racist, vain feminist, but her racism (which is very disapproved of in the book and is used as an indicator as how far away from her goal of being a lady she goes as the novel progresses) and vanity don't take away from the fact that she constantly stresses that she can do anything a man can do, and most likely better. She shuns motherhood, runs two successful businesses in VERY male dominated worlds (a general store and a wood mill), manages a huge plantation, finds food for her family when there is none, constantly scorns society's notion of what she should and should not do because of her gender... I could go on for pages. The book is not the movie! The book is wonderful! #feministbooks
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Yes, the book contains criticisms of white women's expected roles in antebellum society, and Scarlett's rebellions against those roles are a big part of continually driving the story forward. But to make an argument against Scarlett as a feminist icon: she marries her sister's fiance to save her home. She's not exactly about female solidarity, even with other white women. She's really just about herself. I mean, if the character inspires you, fab, but I wouldn't call her feminist. #feministbooks
11/14/09
Thank you for posting this! #feministbooks
11/13/09
1. Imitation and Gender Insubordination by Judith Butler. I have never looked at not just gender identity but identity the same way ever again.
2. La Conciencia de la Mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness by Gloria Anzuldua. I felt a profound loss when I found out she had passed away.
Books:
-The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order
-The Weetzie Bat books, but especially Witch Baby
-Jane Eyre
-Awkward: A Detour by Mary Cappello. I had the privilege of being her student and the fate of being a person in a fluctuating state of awkwardness. This book is fantastic.
-Anything by Julia Alvarez or Isabel Allende
-Meridian by Alice Walker
-UnLunDun by China Mieville and Coraline by Neil Gaiman for their kickass girl protagonists, but especially UnLunDun because it is just so brilliant.
-My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
-The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
-Fun Home by Alison Bechdel #feministbooks
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"White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies," Peggy McIntosh
"Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective," Donna Haraway
"Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality," Gayle Rubin
"Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots," Jasbir Puar and Amit Rai #feministbooks
11/13/09
I would also HIGHLY recommend Femininity by Susan Brownmiller, as well as her Against Our Will: Men, Women & Rape. Backlash by Susan Faludi and Abortion & the Politics of Motherhood by Kristin Luker, while written in the '80s, still ring extremely true. In fact, I may just re-read them (after I tackle some of the recommendations here). Thanks all!
ETA: I really can't recommend Femininity enough - the writing is fun and the history is fascinating.
11/13/09
Whipping Girl: A Transexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Sterano
The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity, and Sexualy by Lynda Nead.
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Wolf
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett (or any of the Witches books)
Also poems by Dorothy Parker, though I'm not sure she ever identified as feminist. #feministbooks
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Those are the ones I lend out/make everyone promise to read, anyway.
(*and hey, my reading list, my choice!) #feministbooks
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Also, after reading The Handmaid's Tale, I would get drunk at parties in college and tell people I was going to tattoo 'Pen Is Envy' on my arm to remind myself of the Bush administration's anti-woman agenda. Needless to say, I was an annoying drunk. #feministbooks
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Evan is a female sci-fi writer turned detective and utterly bad ass. Love them...especially since mystery or detective stuff can be full of men rushing to save the little lady... #feministbooks
11/13/09
Reviving Ophelia by... someone awesome! I listened to this on tape on the drive to campus during my junior year of high school, and it made me SO. MAD. to hear about how the situation not only sucked as much as I thought it did-- it, in fact, sucked even worse.
Contact by Carl Sagan. It got me into science, and plainly discussed the problems the sexism agains female scientist cause the field. And the herione is a blazingly smart and fashionable physicist! Le Awesome!
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I'm also in the middle of Hanne Blank's Virgin: The Untouched History. I recently bought Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks and I think I'm putting Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch on my Christmas list.