#feminist books

[meanwhilepoetry]

Sing O goddess, of Hera's rage, how they vilified her for it, even if she was a woman betrayed. Sing O goddess, of Helen's desire, how everyone forgot she was the daughter of the most powerful God and that was what made the whole world burn. Sing O goddess, of Hestia's fires, how she left the cruelty of Olympus for a peaceful life - how she gave Prometheus the idea to steal the sacred flames for the mortal world. Sing O goddess, but not of Odysseus or Menelaus, Achilles or Agamemnon. Sing instead of women full of fire. Sing us the torch song which brings wildfire when Goddesses like you are ignored.

Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses 2

#spilled ink #greek mythology #hera #helen #hestia #greek myth #writing #poetry #words #great goddesses #poem #feminist quotes #feminist literature #feminist books #homer

[out-of-the-forest-i-come]

Feminist Non-Fiction Recs

Because feminism isn't only about your own voice and your own rights, but about the liberation of all women, it's important to uplift the voices of women who are rarely heard. To honour this international day of Women's Rights, here are some recommendations for non-fiction feminist theory books centered on women of colour.

Please note that this is a non-exhaustive list, and that some very important works might not figure on it. Take it as inspiration, not as a binding list of works to have read, and remember that this is only the surface of women of colour's writings on feminism.

all of bell hooks' books, but I would recommend "Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism" to start with intersectional feminism

There Is No Hierarchy of Oppression; by Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider; by Audre Lorde (all of Audre Lorde, actually)

Hood Feminism; by Mikki Kendall

White Tears, Brown Scars; by Ruby Hamad

Mediocre; Ijeoma Oluo

We Should All Be Feminists; by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This Bridge Called My Back; an anthology edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Bad Feminist; by Roxane Gay

I Am Malala; by Malala Yousafzai

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment; by Patricia Hill Collins

Arab & Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, & Belonging; an anthology edited by Rabab Abduhaldi, Evelyn Alsultany and Nadine Naber

Making Space for Indigenous Feminism; an anthology edited by Joyce Green

Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women; by Amal Awad

The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism; by Kyla Schuller

A Decolonial Feminism; Françoise Vergès

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower; by Brittney Cooper

Women, Race, & Class; by Angela Y. Davis

These books really only scrape the surface of an intersectional approach of feminism focused on race, and if you want to discover more works, I would recommend looking at intersectional feminism and decolonial feminism. Also, if you're not a native English speaker or if you speak fluently multiple languages, I recommend looking for feminist books originally written in other languages that may not have been translated to English, as they offer a perspective that is not so American-centered, which I feel is the case in too much of today's feminism.

#international women's day #feminist books #feminist theory #intersectional feminism #decolonial feminism #women of color #non fiction books #book recs #book recommendations

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Kat Stratford Inspired Reads

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Not Here To Be Liked by Michelle Quach

Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

Girls To The Front by Sara Marcus

Grunge Is Dead by Greg Pato

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Taming Of The Shrew by William Shakespeare

This Woman's Work by Sinead Gleeson and Kim Gordon

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Dare

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

Babylon's Burning: From Punk To Grunge by Clinton Heylin

Moxie by Jennifer Matthieu

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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[marbleheavy]

this is out of left field but a book rec list!! specifically, books that have to deal with consumption of women/cannibalism/ecofeminist themes (basically, feminist, food-centric horror)

1. The Vegetarian by Han Kang

This book is SO good but definitely check the trigger warnings. Told from three different perspectives, it follows a woman after she has a life-altering dream that makes her go vegetarian, much to the dismay of her family. The thing that stuck with me most about this book is how it portrays the normalized but profound betrayals by men that women experience. It’s a mix of “The Yellow Wallpaper” and My Year of Meats

2. My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

Another meat-centric book! This one switches between two women, one in America and one in Japan, as they navigate the world of meat consumption and how patriarchy and misogyny are reflected in it. There’s a very mixed-media feel to this as every section starts with a poetry excerpt by Sei Shonogan and one of the main characters, Jane Takagi-Little, is directing a series on American meat consumption to promote eating meat in Japan. All of Ruth Ozeki’s books are wonderful so if you like this, you should read them all.

3. Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterriva

This one is straight up cannibalism. It’s about a man, Marcos, who works at a meat processing plant that makes “special meat” (human) and is gifted a “specimen” for him to eventually slaughter himself. The specimen is a woman, Jasmine, who Marcos eventually forms a relationship with. This one is overtly dystopian and although certainly very dark, a little more palatable because it allows the reader to feel more distant from the reality of the book. Of course, though, there is till some very striking commentary on the abuse and exploitation of animals, women, and people as a whole.

4. What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

This one is different from the others in that the consumption comes from fungus and not literal people, but there’s still a deep-seated sense of rot. The main character, Alex Easton, returns to the ancestral home of their childhood friend as they learn she’s dying. There is a distinct supernatural element to this, but still very heavy with animal and body horror.

5. A Certain Hunger by Chelsea Summers

Dorothy Daniels, the main characters, is a food critic, sex lover, and psychopath. This one, again, explores the relationship between the treatment of women as sexual beings and commercialized consumption. Also, again, cannibalism. However, this one is very White Feminism, so take that into mind.

all of these books are very good but all have very heavy trigger warnings, so please please look them up before reading. happy reading, my pals <3

#book recommendations #book rec #ecofeminism #cannibalism #literary fiction #the vegetarian #my year of meats #tender is the flesh #what moves the dead #a certain hunger #han kang #ruth ozeki #agustina bazterrica #chelsea summers #t kingfisher #feminist horror #feminist books #marble book recs

[samwisethewitch]

Are you tired of anti-choice people telling you that your views on abortion have no historical/religious support?

Me too.

So I wrote a book proving them wrong.

"An exploration of the history of contraception and abortion in witchcraft and paganism.

This celebration of the history and spirituality of reproductive freedom combines thorough research, reflection, and magical practice with an easy-to-understand writing style. Learn about birth control in the ancient world, which gods and goddesses were historically called on to prevent pregnancy, how to cast a spell to find an abortion provider, and more!

Written with an intersectional, trans-inclusive approach, Sacred Choice acknowledges the nuance of reproductive justice and the ways abortion and contraception access is affected by race, gender, ability, and social class."

Release Date: September 22nd, 2022 (Fall Equinox!)

Available for preorder now!

You can preorder the ePUB for $1 USD on Etsy. You will receive a bonus PDF to ensure file compatibility on all devices. Your digital files will be sent to you on the release date.

If Kindle is more your speed, you can preorder the Kindle ebook for $2.99 on Amazon. The ebook will be auto-delivered to your Kindle library on the release date.

You can also preorder the paperback for $6.99 + shipping on Etsy! Physical copies will be shipped on the book's release date, so you will receive them a few days after the 22nd.

Please note that paperback preorders are hard-capped at 100 copies. This is because I am a one-woman distribution team and want to make sure I'm able to fill orders on time. If having a physical copy is very important to you, I recommend ordering as soon as possible to make sure you get one.

I'm really excited about this project, so please do message me with any questions you have about the content, my research, or the release!

#sacred choice #sam wise author #witchcraft books #pagan books #feminist books #reproductive justice books #pro choice books #reproductive justice #reproductive rights #reproductive freedom #pro choice #abortion #birth control #dobbs vs. jackson #dobbs decision #roe v. wave #witch #witchcraft #witchblr #pagan witch #witchyvibes #paganism #paganblr #reclaiming #reclaiming witch #norse pagan #heathenry #inclusive heathenry #queer witch #queer witchcraft

[miiju86]

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#naomi wolf #the beauty myth #beauty culture #beauty standards #feminist books #feminist literature #feminist resources #feminist references #books #download #pdf & epub #feminist library #feminist reading #feminism #systemic misogyny #systemic oppression #female reality

[cock-holliday]

*jigsaw voice* radfems you are the worst thing to happen to feminism. On the table before you is a pile of books on intersectional feminism. Pick one and begin reading. You don’t even need to form opinions on it yet, just read and think about it. If you don’t, the bear trap will go off and the anvil will drop on you and the grenades will explode and you will die forever. The choice is yours.

Book, another book, about books

book list, hey a booklist, more books, poems

about poems, book list, about a book-writer

an essay, more books, take a guess

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#reading list #intersectional feminism #intersectionality #feminism #feminist books #every time a radfem dies in the traps I will add more books

[heterorealism]

#heterorealism #heteropessimism #gender #feminism #internalized misogyny #feminist books #feminist quotes #feminist authors

[sublecturas]

“Brujas, parteras y enfermeras” en la Línea B

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[radykalny-feminizm]

I got these iconic rare Polish feminist books for only 25 zł 😍

#girl on vinted didn't realize how expensive people are selling thsese #chcemy całego życia is available in only ONE library in Kraków sm #oh well good for me #radfem #radical feminism #radfem safe #feminizm #chcemy całego życia #stańmy się sobą #książki #feministyczne książki #books #feminist books #radblr

[littlematchagirlll]

hi i need some help!

i am going to be attending a christian university in the fall. this school is funded by a religion that believes in very traditional gender roles, as well as marriage being between one man & one woman. it's bad enough that you can be expelled if you are found to be dating someone of the same sex.

with that, i know i will not be able to take any classes on gender and sexuality that don't align with those beliefs. but as a closeted queer person myself, i so desperately want to learn more about those subjects. i just have to do it outside the school setting.

if any of you have recommendations for books, textbooks, video essays, free lecture series, etc., on gender, sexuality, or queerness in general that you recommend, i would so greatly appreciate it!!

#gender studies #queer studies #sexuality #feminism #university #college #help #thank you in advance #queer #queer books #feminist #feminist books #trans books #books on sexuality #books on gender #book recs pls #book recs wanted #book recommendations #gender non conforming

[vavuska]

Books similar to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood:

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett and Extasia by Claire Legrand are both distopyas dense of religious fanatism and women's segregation, in which sexism and sexual prejudice are associated with various aspects of religion (e.g. belief, faith, and fundamentalism). This novel shows also how higher religious fundamentalism is associated with internalized misogyny and passive acceptance of traditional gender roles, and both hostile and benevolent sexism.

In The Grace Year the stereotype of a women as source of sin was laid down by the dominant religious authorities before the inception of widespread violence led by women against women, but after all the violence and blood, women learn the importance of sorority, female friendship and start to support and help each others.

The main source of conflicts are ribbons, which, in The Grace Year, are the sign of a women lifestage and the bride's ribbon is a valued price among most of the girls of the age of Tierney, the protagonist. The bride ribbons create a competition between girls to get bachelor’s attention, self-objectification, and humiliation toward each others. Although the competition eventually destroys most of them, this characteristic offers pleasure to those who survived their Grace Year. Tierney learns to survive on her own, learns that the religious values she was thought were wrong and learns also to appreciate her peer's friendship.

Extasia adds witchcraft and supernatural elements, but the main character (Amity) believes deeply in social conservatism—Amity has a preference for stability, conformity and the status quo— which is often a key trait of the religious experience, but also betrays deep feeling of self-hate.

In Extasia, the very patriarchal structures that decry witchcraft – the Puritan church in which the characters lives in and escapes from, the male headship to which the community so desperately cling, the insistence, in the face of repeated violence, on the sin of her mother – are the same structures that inevitably foreclose the options of the lead character, Amity.

To this two, I will mention also The Year Of The Witching by Alexis Henderson. In this novel, Immanuelle, a young woman living in a rigid, puritanical society, discovers dark powers within herself. This book is very similar to Extasia, but not such as good: Amity character is way more believable than Immanuelle and shows way more comprehension of the injustices committed in the name of the religion. The cult in Extasia contains more original elements and believing than the one in The Year Of The Witching, which seems more a copy-paste of mormon radical close-communities, including the elements of racial prejudice. Both Immanuelle and Amity live in the disdain of their own community because of the sins committed by their mother, which were both punished for their love affairs, but when Amity is a girl-of-action and actively search for mercy and witchcraft, Immanuelle is cursed - literally - by passivity and events occurs without her active consents, including the defection of the evil antagonist. Also, female friendship doesn't take place among the main themes and the book suffer a lot of the male love-interest help.

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden.

In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive.

Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life—a society that doesn’t pit friend against friend or woman against woman, but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that it’s not just the brutal elements they must fear. It’s not even the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. Their greatest threat may very well be each other.

With sharp prose and gritty realism, The Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between.

Extasia by Claire Legrand

Her name is unimportant.

All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark her and place the red hood on her head. With her sisters, she will stand against the evil power that lives beneath the black mountain--an evil which has already killed nine of her village's men.

She will tell no one of the white-eyed beasts that follow her. Or the faceless gray women tall as houses. Or the girls she saw kissing in the elm grove.

Today she will be a saint of Haven. She will rid her family of her mother's shame at last and save her people from destruction. She is not afraid. Are you?

The Year Of The Witching by Alexis Henderson

In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet’s word is law, Immanuelle Moore’s very existence is blasphemy. Her mother’s union with an outsider of a different race cast her once-proud family into disgrace, so Immanuelle does her best to worship the Father, follow Holy Protocol, and lead a life of submission, devotion, and absolute conformity, like all the other women in the settlement. But a mishap lures her into the forbidden Darkwood surrounding Bethel, where the first prophet once chased and killed four powerful witches. Their spirits are still lurking there, and they bestow a gift on Immanuelle: the journal of her dead mother, who Immanuelle is shocked to learn once sought sanctuary in the wood. Fascinated by the secrets in the diary, Immanuelle finds herself struggling to understand how her mother could have consorted with the witches. But when she begins to learn grim truths about the Church and its history, she realizes the true threat to Bethel is its own darkness. And she starts to understand that if Bethel is to change, it must begin with her.

#vavuskapakage #goodreads #the grace year #kim liggett #the handmaid's tale #extasia #claire legrand #feminist books #young adult #young adult fiction #young adult fantasy #margaret atwood #Vavuskabooks #lgbtq #book review #book reviews #book recommendations #lgbtq fiction #alexis henderson #The Year Of The Witching #fantasy books #fantasy #horror books #witch books #witchcore

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Jo March: An Inspired Reading Recommendations List

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Furies: Tales Of The Wild, Wicked and Untamed by Various Authors

A Room Of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Jo by Kathleen Gros

Paradise Lost by John Milton

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

The Heir Of Redclyffe by Charlotte Mary Yonge

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Spring Girls by Anna Todd

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Educated by Tara Westover

The Case Of The Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

#books #book blog #booklr #readblr #book reccs #book recommendations #bookaddict #bookblr #bookworm #books and reading #little women #jo march #jo little women #louisa may alcott #feminist #feminist books

[leer-reading-lire]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

March 8: Empowered Women Empower Women

Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #book photo challenge #mary wollstonecraft #feminist books #feminist literature #feminism #books and flowers #books and plants #my books #leerreadinglire #a vindication of the rights of woman

[zootedelephants]

Reading All About Love has been such a journey, I’ve got four more chapters to go and find myself taking very long breaks between chapters to really understand what bell hooks wrote. I found this quote so beautiful that i had to share it.

#all about love #bell hooks #love #feminism #self healing #self love #spirituality #spiritual black girl #healing #healingjourney #feminist books #feminist #quotes #spiritualconnection #spiritual awakening #earthy black girl #black femininity #my post #zooted elephants

[chaos--core]

Intersectional Education Book Recs

*Will be updated as I read more*

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

Discusses the history of systematic racism in the U.S. starting at the end of the Civil War. It was a bit difficult for me to understand at times, but it really is an excellent book that taught me a lot.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Another one that focuses on racism specifically within the US. It, like the next recommendation, talks about the ways that mainstream white feminism has failed women of color, specifically Black women.

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

Though this book has the same basic concept as the previous one, it covers not just Black women but many racial and ethnic groups, and isn’t solely about racism in America. Ruby Hamad is an incredible writer who covers manages to cover a plethora of points while connecting them to each other seamlessly.

#book recommendations #book recs #intersectional feminism #intersectionality #queer history #punk #reading #books #feminism #feminist #feminist books #blm