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A review by emmaby
The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing by Hannah Dawson
5.0
finally finished!! absolutely loved this and think everyone should read it. so eye opening and introduced/reinforced a lot of dif perspectives and ideas. however i would have loved for some contexts/mini-blurbs about the pieces (especially smth like 'this piece is regarded as one of the seminal/first works on X' - for the pieces which i googled, this extra context was v helpful). also wished that some of the excerpts (e.g comphet by rich) were longer!! but that is to be expected ig. (also i really wish there was a queer version of this book!! ie. queer theory/works anthology)
my faves were:
17 - the woman question; eleanor marx
30 - birth control - a parents’ problem of woman’s?; margaret sanger
39 - the second sex; simone de beauvoir
40 - an end to the neglect of the problems of the negro women; claudio jones
42 - reborn: earlier diaries 1947-1963; susan sontag
45 - the feminine mystique; betty friedan
46 - SCUM manifesto; valerie solanas
47 - the woman-identified woman; radicalesbians
56 - wages against housework; silvia federici
58 - of woman born; adrienne rich
60 - our blood; andrea dworkin
72 - compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence; adrienne rich
79 - challenging imperial feminism; valerie amos and pratibha parmar
84 - borderlands; gloria anzaldua
88 - riot grrrl manifesto; bikini kill
90 - mothers of our nations: indigenous women address the world; winona laduke
95 - feminism is for everybody; bell hooks
96 - gender violence and the prison industrial complex; incite! women, gender non-conforming, and trans people of colour against violence
107 - we should all be feminists; chimamanda ngoni adiche
116 - feminism, interrupted; lola olufemi
my faves were:
17 - the woman question; eleanor marx
30 - birth control - a parents’ problem of woman’s?; margaret sanger
39 - the second sex; simone de beauvoir
40 - an end to the neglect of the problems of the negro women; claudio jones
42 - reborn: earlier diaries 1947-1963; susan sontag
45 - the feminine mystique; betty friedan
46 - SCUM manifesto; valerie solanas
47 - the woman-identified woman; radicalesbians
56 - wages against housework; silvia federici
58 - of woman born; adrienne rich
60 - our blood; andrea dworkin
72 - compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence; adrienne rich
79 - challenging imperial feminism; valerie amos and pratibha parmar
84 - borderlands; gloria anzaldua
88 - riot grrrl manifesto; bikini kill
90 - mothers of our nations: indigenous women address the world; winona laduke
95 - feminism is for everybody; bell hooks
96 - gender violence and the prison industrial complex; incite! women, gender non-conforming, and trans people of colour against violence
107 - we should all be feminists; chimamanda ngoni adiche
116 - feminism, interrupted; lola olufemi