- alex [they/them] ( @alex@beehaw.org ) English9•11 months ago
So many, but that’s a really really wide topic and also different “levels” and I don’t know if you’re looking for introductions or for very specific stuff!
Here’s a small selection of things I enjoyed reading, though:
Books
Nonfiction
- Pretty much everything by bell hooks, especially Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center for a general overview and The will to change specifically aimed at men
- The Guilty Feminist (also a podcast)
- Whipping Girl, specifically about trans women
Fiction
- The first woman, on the birth of modern feminism in Uganda
Essays
- Lionir [he/him] ( @Lionir@beehaw.org ) English3•11 months ago
I’ve been meaning to read The Will to Change by bell hooks but I’m not a consistent reader…
- alex [they/them] ( @alex@beehaw.org ) English3•11 months ago
I haven’t read that one yet (my partner just finished it so I’m hoping to steal it from them next time I see them!), but if it’s anything like the other books I’ve read by her, it’s made up of short chapters so you can finish a chapter in one go and then forget you own the book, then go back to it for another chapter a few months later, etc.
Thanks! I think I’ve got a decent grasp of most basic ideas, but I haven’t read much theory, so I was curious what other people read
- alex [they/them] ( @alex@beehaw.org ) English3•11 months ago
Ah fair! In that case yes my big recommendation is bell hooks’s work (both super foundational and surprisingly easy to follow) and Whipping Girl.
- GodzillasPencil ( @GodzillasPencil@beehaw.org ) English3•11 months ago
I recommend Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde. Her essays blew me away and explained intersectionality in a way that made sense to me for the first time, although she didn’t use that word because it’s an older work. It was one of those books I got from the library and about 30 pages in I knew I wanted my own copy.
- Lilacwitch17 ( @Lilacwitch17@beehaw.org ) English2•10 months ago
Definitely bell hooks Just finished The Trouble with White Women by Kyla Schuller
Reading Judith Butler right now Undoing Gender