Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality Andrea Dworkin E.P. Dutton 1974 From Wikipedia: Dworkin examines the place and depiction of women in fairy tales and pornography (focusing on the French erotic novels Story of O and The Image and the magazine Suck). She then looks at the historical practices of Chinese foot binding and Medieval European witch burning from a radical feminist perspective. The book’s…
Category: History
Feminist Revolution:Redstockings Kathie Sarachild (ed) Random House New York 1975 A history and analysis of key issues in the rebirth years of the Women’s Liberation Movement embodying the principle of radical history–that of seeing our own personal and political experience as history and drawing lessons from it and other movements for future actions. This journal…
For the Record: The makingand meaning of feministknowledge Dale Spender The Women’s Press 1985 For the Record is Dale Spender’s own account of the work of feminist writers and theorists of the last twenty years. Her account begins with the publication of Betty Friedan’s pioneering work, The Feminine Mystique, which blew apart the myth of…
The Subversive Stitch:Embroidery and the Making ofthe Feminine Rozsika Parker The Women’s Press 1984 In the history of embroidery – through the very threads of samplers, firescreens, table runners and dress – can be traced another history: the history of women. In this fascinating study, Rozsika Parker, co-author of Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology,…
Feminist Novelists of theBelle Epoque: Love as aLifestyle Jennifer Waelti-Walters Indiana University Press 1990 Feminist Novelists of the Belle Epoque presents a generation of women writers critical of love and marriage – the central tenets of their culture and society. Jennifer Waelti-Walters has recovered a group of women novelists who challenged the accepted nineteenth-century views…
Women, Resistance andRevolution Sheila Rowbotham Penguin Books 1972 In women, Resistance and Revolution Sheila Rowbotham has produced a wide-ranging survey of the roots of inequality and of the long but sporadic struggle to overcome it. Her narrative extends from the seventeenth century to present-day Vietnam, showing how certain women have struggled, in both revolutionary and…
Women of Ideas & WhatMen Have Done to Them Dale Spender Pandora 1982 With characteristic energy, humour and learning, Dale Spender has dug into the hidden past and uncovered shining examples of women’s creativity and intellectual prowess which has been suppressed or stolen by men. Men have removed women from literary and historical records and…
Complaints and Disorders:The Sexual Politics ofSickness Barbara Ehrenreich,Deirdre English The Feminist Press 1973 In this exciting sequel to their underground bestseller, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English document the tradition of American sexism in medicine before and after the turn of the century. Citing vivid examples, including numerous “treatments” and “rest cures”…
Feminist Theorists: ThreeCenturies of Women’sIntellectual Traditions Dale Spender (eds) The Women’s Press 1983 Feminism was not born in 1968. Yet the work of three centuries of feminist thinkers has been dismissed, distorted or forgotten. Even the names of many of them remain unfamiliar, and few have so much as a mention in history books. Feminist…
Money Sex and Power: Toward aFeminist Historical Materialism Nancy C.M. Hartsock Longman New Yorkand London 1983 Developing the concept of a feminist standpoint rooted in women’s daily, sensuous life activity, Money, Sex, and Power cogently and movingly explores the interweavings of epistemology, community, sexuality, and power. Hartsock examines the worldview-structuring aspects of gender in order…