* Feminist Theory from Margin to Center, by bell hooks (really, I’d recommend any bell hooks) * Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape, by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti (Valenti has a number of books on feminism, by the way) * Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, by Ariel Levy * Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, by Julia Serano * Women, Race, & Class, by Angela Y. Davis * Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism’s Work Is Done, by Susan J. Douglas * The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir * Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn * The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood (as well as many of her other novels) * The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi (this is a graphic novel) * The Female Eunuch, by Germaine Greer * The Women’s Room, by Marilyn French * The Vagina Monologues, by Eve Ensler * also consider novels by Marge Piercy, Alice Walker, Charlotte Perkins Gillman and Joyce Carol Oates (especially some of her essays)
~Rosie
Sarah: Well, Rosie’s already said pretty much everything I would have mentioned - especially on the non-fiction front! As a literature student, however, I can add a few more to the fiction list:
* Possession, A.S. Byatt * The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood * Truismes, Marie Darrieussecq (the English translation is called Pig Tales) * The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter * Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte * Anything by Virginia Woolf
I also have to reiterate Rosie’s recommendations of Female Chauvinist Pigs and The Second Sex.
The LIGHTHOUSE: I would also add
* The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard (an excellent introduction, especially to UK feminism but also to the global scene) * Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti (not read but recommended by others) * Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine (reading now and it is MIND-BLOWING)
* Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape, by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti (Valenti has a number of books on feminism, by the way)
* Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, by Ariel Levy
* Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, by Julia Serano
* Women, Race, & Class, by Angela Y. Davis
* Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism’s Work Is Done, by Susan J. Douglas
* The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir
* Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
* The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood (as well as many of her other novels)
* The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi (this is a graphic novel)
* The Female Eunuch, by Germaine Greer
* The Women’s Room, by Marilyn French
* The Vagina Monologues, by Eve Ensler
* also consider novels by Marge Piercy, Alice Walker, Charlotte Perkins Gillman and Joyce Carol Oates (especially some of her essays)
~Rosie
Sarah: Well, Rosie’s already said pretty much everything I would have mentioned - especially on the non-fiction front! As a literature student, however, I can add a few more to the fiction list:
* Possession, A.S. Byatt
* The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
* Truismes, Marie Darrieussecq (the English translation is called Pig Tales)
* The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
* Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
* Anything by Virginia Woolf
I also have to reiterate Rosie’s recommendations of Female Chauvinist Pigs and The Second Sex.
The LIGHTHOUSE: I would also add
* The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard (an excellent introduction, especially to UK feminism but also to the global scene)
* Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti (not read but recommended by others)
* Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine (reading now and it is MIND-BLOWING)
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