Books

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  SCUM Manifesto

  by Valerie Solanas

  Avital Ronell reconsiders Solanas in light of her social milieu.

  14 posts

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  Beyond the Pale

  by Vron Ware

  Pioneering study of how ideas about white women have shaped the history of racism

  35 posts

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  Separate and Dominate

  by Christine Delphy

  An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures

  59 posts

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  The Anti-Social Family

  by Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

  Sensitive but uncompromising socialist-feminist critique of the nuclear family

  29 posts

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  Straight Sex

  by Lynne Segal

  A manifesto of sexual liberation, from the leading feminist thinker

  31 posts

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  Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World

  by Sheila Rowbotham

  Groundbreaking examination of the birth, development and impact of Feminist consciousness

  34 posts

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  Woman’s Estate

  by Juliet Mitchell

  Classic statement of socialist feminism, from one of its leading thinkers

  37 posts

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  Feminist Radical Thinkers

  by Michèle Barrett, Mary McIntosh, et al.
  A collection of extracts from leading second-wave feminists, including Michèle Barrett, Mary McIntosh, Lynne Segal, Sheila Rowbotham and Juliet Mitchell

  7 posts

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  Women’s Oppression Today

  by Michèle Barrett
  “This book is a school of thought.” – Frigga Haug, Das Argument

  26 posts

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  Playing the Whore

  by Melissa Gira Grant
  “An important contribution to debates around sex and work ... deserves to be read.” – Nina Power

  42 posts

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  Women, Resistance and Revolution

  by Sheila Rowbotham
  “A key figure of the second wave.”–Melissa Benn, The Guardian

  31 posts

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  Fortunes of Feminism

  by Nancy Fraser
  Charts the history of women's liberation and calls for a revitalized feminism.

  49 posts

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  The Metamorphoses of Kinship

  by Maurice Godelier

  A masterwork of the anthropology of kinship by the heir to Levi-Strauss.

  5 posts

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  The Erotic Margin

  by Irvin C. Schick

  Reviewing the large, disparate, and often contradictory western discourse on gender and sexuality of the Other

  4 posts

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  Dreamers of a New Day

  by Sheila Rowbotham
  The acclaimed exploration of the women who revolutionized American and British life.

  31 posts

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  Edward Carpenter

  by Sheila Rowbotham
  Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize: The acclaimed biography of the pioneering advocate of free love, gay rights and women’s suffrage.

  11 posts

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  Gender Equality

  Edited by Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers
  An urgent call for real-world solutions to gender inequality.

  11 posts

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  Red Velvet Seat

  Edited by Antonia Lant
  A compendious anthology of women's writing on film.

  4 posts

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  Lust For Life

  Edited by Carla Harryman, Avital Ronell, et al.
  Scholars and artists on the transgressive twentieth-century literary icon.

  4 posts

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  Sexuality in the Field of Vision

  by Jacqueline Rose
  Feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.

  10 posts