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i'm not on a recruiting drive ;D, but i often get asked about radfem stuff to read, or what radfems believe, and i found a good reading list, so thought id post it up for those who are or might be interested.

so here it is, nicked off another site.

Radical Lesbian Feminist Theory
Spinster and Her Enemies, Sheila Jeffreys
A Passion for Friends, Jan Raymond
Call Me Lesbian, Julia Penelope
The Lesbian Heresy, Sheila Jeffreys
The Lesbian Body, Monique Wittig
Politics of Reality, Marilyn Frye
Willful Virgin: Essays in Feminism 1976-1992, Marilyn Frye
Lesbian Ethics, Sarah Hoagland

Radical Feminist Theory - General/Collections
Sister/Outsider, Audre Lorde
Love and Politics, Carol Anne Douglas
The Dialectic of Sex--The Case for Feminist Revolution, Shulamith Firestone
Sisterhood is Powerful, Robin Morgan, ed.
Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader, edited by Barbara A. Crow
Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, Renate Klein and Diane Bell
Feminism Unmodified, Catharine MacKinnon
Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf
Sexual Politics, Kate Millett
Radical Feminism, Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, and Anita Rapone, eds. On Lies, Secrets and Silence, Adrienne Rich
Beyond Power: On Women, Men and Morals, Marilyn French
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law, Catharine MacKinnon
Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression, Sandra Bartky
Women, Culture, and Politics, Angela Davis
Life and Death, Andrea Dworkin
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga, eds.
The Whole Woman, Germaine Greer
Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution, Sonia Johnson
Right Wing Women, Andrea Dworkin, New York
Homegirls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Barbara Smith ed.
Fugitive Information, Kay Leigh Hagan
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black, bell hooks
Deals with the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot, Pearl Cleage
"What is Feminism?" De Clark, Feminista!, vol 3, no 10
http://www.feminista.com/archives/v3n10/clarke.html
Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes, Maria Lugones

Feminist Theory - Specific Areas

Prostitution

Female Sexual Slavery, Kathleen Barry
"Women, Lesbians, and Prostitution: A Workingclass Dyke Speaks Out Against Buying Women for Sex," by Toby Summer, in Lesbian Culture: An Anthology, Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe, eds.
"Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution," Jan Raymond
http://sisyphe.org/article.php3?id_article=691
"The Legalisation of Prostitution : A failed social experiment," Sheila Jeffreys
http://sisyphe.org/article.php3?id_article=697

Pornography

Pornography: Men Possessing Women, Andrea Dworkin
Pornography: Evidence of the Harm, Diana Russell
Pornography and Sexual Violence: Evidence of the Links (transcript of Minneapolis hearings published by Everywoman in the UK)

Rape
Against Our Will, Susan Brownmiller
Rape In Marriage, Diana Russell

Incest
Secret Trauma, Diana Russell

Battering/Domestic Violence
Loving to Survive, Dee Graham

Lesbian Sadomasochism

Unleashing Feminism: Critiquing Lesbian Sadomasochism in the Gay Nineties, Irene Reti, ed.
The Sex Wars, Lisa Duggan and Nan D. Hunter, eds.
"Sex, Lies, and Feminism" Charlotte Croson, off our backs, June 2001
www.questioningtransgender.org/sexlies.htm

Separatism/Women-Only Space

"No Dobermans Allowed," Carolyn Gage, in Lesbian Culture: An Anthology, Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe, eds.
For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology, Julia Penelope & Sarah Hoagland, eds.
"Women-Only Spaces: An Alternative To Patriarchy," Jennie Ruby http://www.questioningtransgender.org/WomOnlySpace.htm
"Exploring the Value of Women-Only Space," Kya Ogyn
http://www.questioningtransgender.org/support.htm

Medicine

Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
The Hidden Malpractice: How American Medicine Treats Women as Patients and Professionals, Gena Corea
The Mother Machine: Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to Artificial Wombs, Gena Corea
Women and Madness, Phyllis Chesler
"Women, Health and the Politics of Fat," Amy Winter, in Rain And Thunder, Autumn Equinox 2003, No. 20.

Motherhood

Of Woman Born, Adrienne Rich
The Reproduction of Mothering, Nancy Chodorow
Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace, Sara Ruddick

Marriage/Heterosexuality
The Sexual Contract, Carol Pateman
"A Radical Dyke Experiment for the Next Century: 5 Things to work for Instead of Same-Sex Marriage" Betsy Brown in off our backs, January 2000 V.30; N.1 p. 24
http://www.offourbacks.org/MorFeat.htm#ARadical
Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin, Touchstone, 1997

Transsexuality/Transgender/Queer Politics
The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male, Janice Raymond
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Judith Butler
Unpacking Queer Politics, Sheila Jeffreys
"Men in Ewes' Clothing: The Stealth Politics of the Transgender Movement," Karla Mantilla in off our backs April 2000
www.questioningtransgender.org/stealth.htm
"Teena Brandon: The Unmaking of a Lesbian," Carolyn Gage
www.questioningtransgender.org/brandon.htm

Language

Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Father's Tongues, Julia Penelope
Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary, Mary Daly

Feminist Theology/Spirituality/Religion
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, Mary Daly
The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe, Marija Gimbutas
Woman, Church and State, Matilda Joslyn Gage
The Women's Bible, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Pure Lust, Mary Daly

Backlash
The War Against Women, Marilyn French
Backlash, Susan Faludi

History/Memoir
Surpassing the Love of Men, Lillian Faderman
AntiClimax, Sheila Jeffreys
Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicles of a Feminist, Robin Morgan
The Creation of Patriarchy, Gerda Lerner
The Creation of Feminist Consciousness, From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy, Gerda Lerner, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993
Why History Matters, Gerda Lerner
A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft, ed.
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches by Ellen Carol Dubois (Editor), Gerda Lerner, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Suffragette Movement, Sylvia Pankhurst
In Our Time: Memoirs of a Revolution, Susan Brownmiller
Women, Race and Class, Angela Y. Davis

Science/Gender
Myths of Gender, Anne Fausto-Sterling

Economy
If Women Counted, Marilyn Waring
For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange, Genevieve Vaughn

Fat/Body Image
Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression, Lisa Schoenfielder and Barb Wieser
The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Susan Bordo
The Invisible Woman: Confronting Weight Prejudice in America, Charisse Goodman

Disability

With the Power of Each Breath: A Disabled Women's Anthology, Susan E. Browne, Debra Connors, and Nanci Stern

and here's a list of online sources compiled by me smile

feminist reprise
check out the article archive, and another booklist. also, amy blogs

i blame the patriarchy
highly amusing blog by twisty faster

mad sheila musings
blog

a view from a broad
gulf vet and movie fan ginmar - radical feminism mixed with rants about horror movies

kirsten anderberg
anarchist and radical feminist

laurelin in the rain
blog from laurelin

screaming into the void
blog from amananta

sparkle*matrix
"musings of a mad geordie woman"

trash talks back
blog

well i'll go to the foot of the stairs
blog

the primary contradiction
"influenced by radical feminism, Marxism, post-colonial theory, and anti-imperialism"

feminista
ezine which hasnt been updated for a long time but has great archives

anyway, theres tons of links on all of those, but thats a decent selection for anyone wanting to find out more about radical feminism.

i'm cross posting this elsewhere.

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