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Feminist book recommendations?

Unfortunately I don't really know overly much about feminism - its movements, waves, history, theories or current figures. Hopefully looking to change that but don't quite know where to start. Anyone have any book recommendations? On holidays right now and want it to be at least slightly mais productive than fucking around on reddit and leitura shitty fanfiction, lol.

Some fiction books could be sweet too. Recently read The Handmaid's Tale (which has some feminist themes alongside other flavours likes anti-authoritarianism) and it was absolutely frickin brilliant.

Or if not books, anyone know of some good websites to get a handle on some feminism-101? Honestly I shamefully little lol. Basically looking for any and all tips.

Thanks so much in advance!
 ThePrincesTale posted over a year ago
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misanthrope86 said:
It's tough to recommend stuff because we all access stuff differently and have different priorities... what counts as feminist is extremely varied and eclectic, which has been one of the main goals of feminist movements - to share the complexity of women's lives and negate the homogeneous representations of women as constructed por masculine systems.

So I'm not saying that you'll amor these books or that they will help answer your questions. These are just books that have helped introduce certain ideas or challenge certain ways of thinking for me.

Non-fiction:
- 'Feminism Is For Everybody' por sino hooks
- 'Fat Is A Feminist Issue' por Susie Orbach (outdated, but still important)
- 'Bad Feminist' por Roxanne Gay
- 'The Beauty Myth' por Naomi Wolf
- 'The War Against Women' por Marilyn French
- 'SCUM Manifesto' por Valerie Solanas (this one is controversial and definitely NOT for everyone... its manifestation is extremely fraught and everyone reads it really differently and has really different responses to it... I recommend it to people because it in many places mirrors the things said about women over the course of history, as well as capturing hatred in many forms... it is a complex read to digest...)

Fiction:
Anything por charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Shelley, Angela Carter and Carson McCullers, but these are really just my personal faves.

I haven't personally found any particular websites that I really like. For exploratory purposes, link and link could be helpful (they are a bit Buzzfeed-y, not that I am anti-Buzzfeed necessarily, but it just means that the artigos tend towards the reductionist). link also features some interesting articles, as does link. I tend to post artigos I find interesting (for a variety of reasons!) here as links, and the fórum in this club has some interesting topics too.

Don't be shy to ask questions! I'm happy to try answer perguntas as best I can or suggest things to explore. Feminist thought is incredibly diverse and can be very difficult to navigate, especially as it is often counter to dominant thought. So if my suggestions don't tickle your fancy (or even if they do), perhaps try focusing your energies on a particular topic that is important to you (gender pay-gap, rape culture, mental illness etc) and explore books etc on that topic, as this can contextualise feminist ways of thinking on the topic and help you access and engage with wider feminist arguments/thinking mais broadly.
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Thank you sooo much, this is incredible. Really helpful to have such great direction like this because like you said, it’s such a broad and diverse field… which makes it pretty difficult for someone to know where to start, especially when you’re an indecisive and procrastinating lil shit like me. Thanks for all the fantastic non-fiction recommendations, ‘Feminism Is For Everybody’ in particular seems to be a great starting point among them and one that covers a wide variety of important issues. Re ‘SCUM Manifesto’: I’m really in need (ie. currently lacking) of some reads that challenge so it’s definitely on the list. The crappy young adult novels need balancing lol. As for the fiction, these are also fantastic suggestions (Angela Carter’s retellings of classical fairy tales in feminist, gótico style? Holy shit YES) and it seems the internet agrees (Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s stories have amazing reviews). K so my summer leitura list has doubled in size and undergone a 20-fold increase of ‘worthwhileness’ lol
ThePrincesTale posted over a year ago
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And thanks also for the websites, sort of shocking how many issues fly under the radar of normal media (look at this bullshit linkAlternatively, some of their artigos just frickin entertaining – had a good laugh at this: “The dreaded F word. Feminism. The term has a visceral effect on people, especially those of the older white male variety, the variety that usually equate feminists with clichéd visual imagens of what a feminist might look like: think wild underarm tresses and a lingering smell of patchouli that follows them wherever their Birkenstock-clad feet may lead them on their march to equality, all the while proudly shaking their menstrual bloodied underwear in the air.” And yeah thanks so much for taking questions! Bit confused about the different movements in feminism so was thinking of posting a pergunta about that sometime when I’ve sussed it out more. Good point also about narrowing down on a specific topic to make exploration easier, honestly the way women are treated in the professional world (including but not limited to the pay-gap) has me fuming, so might try and find specific things about that. Thanks again!
ThePrincesTale posted over a year ago
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