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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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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.
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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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and if any of you out in the Jezesphere are interested in a feminist take on the Classics, a great secondary source is the book Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome, ed Amy Richlin. I recently wrote a paper on rape in Ovid, and this book gives a pretty good introduction to feminist scholarship in Classics. actually I'm expanding that paper into a new one from a slightly different angle, and it's gonna. be. awesome. on female-on-female violence and metaphorical rape in the Ovid's Metamorphoses. I'm pretty stoked about it, and if you've read this far, thanks! #feministbooks
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Have you read Antigone by Sophocles? Absolutely phenomenal. #feministbooks
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I first read it when I was in middle school (about 15 years ago). It was the perfect introduction to the world of feminist literature.
I've since read a few other novels by Shulman, and they're all excellent. #feministbooks
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Also, these are the books that I devoured when I discovered feminism:
- Manifesta: Young Women and Feminism by Amy Richards
- Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Daizy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman
- To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism by Rebecca Walker.
- Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism by Leslie Haywood
I am sad that I haven't read many of the classics - Feminist Mystique, anything by Audre Lorde, Virgina Woolf, Noami Wolf, etc...love reading these comments for my ever growing reading list! #feministbooks