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[splash_the_cat]

To any of you academic or armchair intellectual sorts out there: I'm looking for recommendations on any sort of introductory material (books, journal papers, etc.) on post-feminist theory (or general feminist theory, for that matter

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[roane]

I have a text book at home you might find helpful, an anthology of sorts on feminist theory. It was for, surprise surprise, my feminist theory class. I'll look for it when I get home and try to think of other nifty recommendations.

[roane]

OF feminist theory, not ON feminist theory. Although I suppose, technically speaking, it's on feminist theory too.

[merriehaskell]

I've put not a few pieces on e-reserves for feminist theory, and as luck would have it, you're U of M staff and can access any and all of those articles!

Try Anna Kirkland's class:
http://www.lib.umich.edu/reserves/ures/lists/1/fa2003/fa2003WOMENSTD270akirklan.php
and there are plenty of other Women's Studies' classes to poke around:
Last Fall's Reserves
Last Winter's Reserves
Just look for "Women's Studies"--it's the last chunk of classes, usually.

[nostalgia_lj]

Go with the classic! Germaine!

[mylittleredgirl]

I tend to run screaming from anything with the word "theory" in it (I lived with a bunch of semiotics folk for two years and drove them nuts), but I have a number of friends from university who might know stuff... want me to send out emails and poll them? Or have you got enough already?

-- Little Red

[pollylynn]

Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is a must read. And Germaine. A.S. Byatt's scholarly work is, strangely, more readable than her fiction (don't hit or yell! I love her fiction).

Warhol and Herndl's "Feminisms: An Anthopology of Literary Theory and Criticism" is somewhat dated, but still worthwhile.

And if you get pissed off enough with theory, pick up Jack Zipes's Don't Bet on the Prince, a fun-filled collection of feminist retellings of fairytales.