Intro to Feminist Studies

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Feminist Literary Resources - MASTERPOST

Disclaimer: I have not read all of these books and essays. This is not an endorsement of the content of any particular books. I just hoard pdfs and wanted to share. Books I read or am reading are italicized, books that I recommend are bolded.

Full Books 

Outlaw Woman - A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - PDF Link

A Deafening Silence - Hidden Violence Against Women and Children Patrizia Romito - PDF Link

Letters From a War Zone  Andrea Dworkin - PDF Link

Our Blood - Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics Andrea Dworkin - PDF Link

Angela Davis - An Autobiography Angela Davis - PDF Link

Assata (Shakur), An Autobiography Assata Shakur - PDF Link

Beyond the Frame - Women of Color and Visual Representation Angela Davis and Neferti Tadiar - PDF Link

Caliban and the Witch - Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation Sylvia Federici - PDF Link

Feminism Unmodified - Discourses on Life and Law Catharine A. MacKinnon - PDF Link

Only Words Catharine A. MacKinnon - PDF Link

For Her Own Good - Two Centuries of the Experts’ Advice to Women Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English - PDF Link

Going Out of Our Minds - The Metaphysics of Liberation Sonia Johnson - PDF Link 

The Great Cosmic Mother - Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor - PDF Link

Beauty and Mysogyny - Harmful Cultural Practices in the West Sheila Jeffreys - PDF Link

How to Suppress Women’s Writing Joanna Russ - PDF Link

Loving to Survive - Sexual Terror, Men’s Violence, and Women’s Lives Dee L. R. Graham - PDF Link

Beyond God the Father - Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation Mary Daly - PDF Link

Gyn/Ecology - The Metaethics of Radical Feminism Mary Daly - PDF Link

Sexual Politics Kate Millett - PDF Link

Natural Liberty Sage-Femme Collective - PDF Link

Pornland - How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality Gail Dines - PDF Link

Radical Feminist Therapy - Working in the Context of Violence Bonnie Burstow - PDF Link

Right Wing Women  Andrea Dworkin - PDF Link

The Dialectic of Sex - A Case for Feminist Revolution Shulamith Firestone - PDF Link

The Spinster and Her Enemies - Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930 Sheila Jeffreys - PDF Link

The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism edited by Dorchen Leidhodt and Janice G. Raymond - PDF Link

This Bridge Called My Back - Writings by Radical Women of Color editors: Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua - PDF Link

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State Catharine A. MacKinnon - PDF Link 

Trauma and Recovery - The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror Judith Herman, M.D. - PDF Link 

Unpacking Queer Politics Sheila Jeffreys - PDF Link

Who Cooked the Last Supper? - A Woman’s History of the World Rosalind Miles - PDF Link

Why Does He Do That? - Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men Lundy Bancroft - PDF Link

Wildfire - Igniting the She/Volution Sonia Johnson - PDF Link

Woman Hating Andrea Dworkin - PDF Link

Women, Race, and Class Angela Davis - PDF Link

Essays, Pamphlets, Articles, Manifestos, Letters, Shorter Books

Post-Mortems - Representations of Female Suicide by Drowning in Victorian Culture Valerie Messen - PDF Link

Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon Kathie Sarachild - PDF Link

A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century - PDF Link

Ancient Hatred and Its Contemporary Manifestation: The Torture of Lesbians Susan Hawthorne, Ph.D. - PDF Link

Racism, Birth Control, and Reproductive Rights Angela Davis - PDF Link

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses - A history of Women Healers Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English - PDF Link

Bringing Together Feminist Theory and Practice: A Collective Interview PDF Link

The Combahee River Collective Statement PDF Link

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence Adrienne Rich - PDF Link

A Collection of Essays on Feminism and Sexism in the Anarchist Movement PDF Link

Everyday Male Chauvinism - Intimate Partner Violence Which is Not Called Violence - PDF Link

Free Space - A Perspective on the Small Group in Women’s Liberation Pamela Allen - PDF Link

Is Art Creating Patriarchy or is Patriarchy Creating Art? Mary B. - PDF Link

Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought Patricia Hill Collins - PDF Link

Liberalism and the Death of Feminism Catherine A. MacKinnon - PDF Link

Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw - PDF Link

Marx and Gandhi Were Liberals - Feminism and the “Radical” Left Andrea Dworkin - PDF Link

The Subsistence Perspective - Beyond the Globalized Economy Maria Mies and Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen - PDF Link

Off Our Backs - The Feminist Newsjournal - Issue on Mary Daly PDF Link

Disappearing Ink: Early Modern Women Philosphers and Their Fate in History Eileen O’Neill - PDF Link

Hands, Tools, Weapons Paola Tabet - PDF Link

S.C.U.M. Manifesto Valerie Solanas - PDF Link

Sexology and Antifeminism Sheila Jeffreys - PDF Link

Sinister Wisdom - A Gathering of Spirit - North American Indian Women’s Issue PDF Link

Taking Our Eyes off the Guys Sonia Johnson - PDF Link

We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - PDF Link

Why a Materialist Feminism is (Still) Possible - And Necessary Stevi Jackson - PDF Link

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[comehometoyourwomb]

[quinntheestallion]

once you realize literally everything men say is a projection you will be free

[z0ruas]

In analyzing the sex-class system, feminists are accused of inventing or perpetuating it. Calling attention to it, we are told, insults women by suggesting that they are victims, stupid enough to allow themselves to be victimized. Feminists are accused of being the agents of degradation by postulation that such degradation exists.

— Andrea Dworkin

[aalexan]

”women need to be nicer to men!!! women are so awful to men now and that’s the reason they’re all misogynistic dickheads!” oh? so you agree? you agree that the mistreatment of one sex by another is what causes them to turn mean and cynical towards the other sex? so you agree misandry is men’s fault? that feminists being so mean to men is men’s own fault? you agree that women are justified in their judgement and alienation of males?

[animentality]

[hadesoftheladies]

forget the socioeconomic load of being with a man. if men simply having access to us wasn't important and separatism was so inconsequential, we wouldn't be watching men foam at the mouth en mass at divorce, women's independence or just women being single. there wouldn't be slurs for it. there wouldn't be such white hot rage at the idea of women not being with men. marilyn frye was right when she said separating from men is redefining ourselves as not beings that exist for male pleasure or caretaking. i mean, what else is the "male loneliness pandemic" about? if not that men have a right to women? why is it that even the most vile of men keep wanting access to women? since it's so unimportant and trivial.

separatism directly opposes the fundamental misogynistic idea that women inherently belong to and exist for men. if pornography purports that women must yield their access (hence power) to any man at any time bc she is his object, then separatism is meaningful resistance to that idea by refusing male access on multiple fronts.

it's not that separatism challenges nothing. on the contrary, separatism challenges everything by challenging the idea that men should have unconditional access to women. it literally offends everything about patriarchy

as gerda lerner so astutely pointed out in The Beginning of Patriarchy, while male class status was economic, women's class status was explicitly sexual. men were rich or poor. women were wives or harlots - that is belonging to one man or all men. men's rights in the state were contingent on how rich or poor he was and women's rights were contingent on what kind of man she belonged to/had access to her. so daughters/wives of rich men had more rights than whores on the street. their class was dictated by men, while men's class was dictated by capital.

for women to say: "i belong to no man" is a radical statement in patriarchal society. it is a declaration that her humanity is to be considered independent of him and that her societal worth can no longer be dictated by him.

for that reason it is upsetting to the patriarchs and seen as dangerous and radical in patriarchal society.

[velvety-secret]

Tinfoil hat moment but I swear this ‘omg evil SWERFs!!!” nonsense is a psy op bankrolled by the sex industry because in what world is “I think it’s okay for 60 year old men to buy sex from 18 year olds struggling to afford their next meal :)” something you can say with a goddamn straight face. 

[sororise-deactivated20180403]

that’s not even a tinfoil hat moment tbh like ‘turn off the blue light’ was a campaign run by traffickers, the #notyourrescueproject was run by a man who posed as one of the women he trafficked under the name “molli desi”, there’s probably more examples but yeah, that’s 100% what’s going on 

[nirruti]

Red umbrella project was started/run by pimps and traffickers too.

[radkuromi]

Also think about now much modern feminism has to do with “sex positivity” and glorifies PornHub 👀

[femclasscirce]

Also the NSWP, one of the most influential sex work orgs (backed by Amnesty & funded by George Soros) has ties to human trafficking. One of their leaders got sentenced for procuring and trafficking a few years ago

[femclasscirce]

Oh and the IUSW openly takes money from pimps, including Douglas Fox who ran one of the biggest prostitution rings in England

[fictocriticisma-deactivated2022]

Julie Bindel took a trip to Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2015 to visit women who were supposedly apart of a popular and well-funded NGO called “Women’s Network For Unity” (WNU). She was not aware beforehand that a board member would actually be at the meeting. She details in this article that the board member consistently interrupted the prostitutes she came to speak with. When asked about the services they provide for women, she said that “If the women are beaten up by the police, they are given legal training on their rights; if they are arrested, the WNU will provide food during the time they cannot work; and if one of the women dies, they will help to buy the coffin.” When asked by Bindel if the organization was planning to raise money to help women out of prostitution, she replied “No.” When Bindel spoke with the women at the WNU meeting, many told her that they needed hundreds of dollars to obtain identification documents that they would need to seek out other, less dangerous work. Many said they had no idea they were apart of any sex workers union or NGO, which WNU claims to be.

The International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW) is a UK-based union for sex workers, and became a part of GMB, another general workers union and Britain’s third largest union, in 2002 after a vote to become an affiliate. Like @feministclassicist mentioned before me in the thread, Douglas Fox is one of the many donors to the IUSW, and is also a part of Amnesty International, which I’ll address shortly. Fox owns the largest escort service in north-eastern England, and has dedicated a lot of time, money, and resources to lobby for the legalization of pimping, brothel-owning, and sexbuying.

In 2010, Douglas Fox published a post on the official IUSW website, wherein he routinely refers to women who are prostitutes as “whores,” claims that Julie Bindel and other anti-coercive sex industry feminists are not “true feminists”, claims prostitution does “not institutionalise the sexual objectification of women”, and states “the whore challenges social oppression of both men and women by refusing to conform to narrow oppressive role prescriptions.”

These statements are diametrically opposed to the lives and vocalized experiences/desires of the overwhelming majority of so-called “sex workers”, who want to leave these industries and find other sources of labor, but often don’t have the resources to do so. [2] [3]

In 2008, Douglas Fox proposed a motion for blanket decriminalisation of the sex trade at the Amnesty International (AI) Annual General Meeting, a proposal that became international AI policy seven years later.

In October of 2014, Alejandra Gil, the Vice President of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), was arrested for running a massive sex trafficking ring, using APROASE (a proclaimed sex-worker led sex work Union, for whom she was a co-chair member) as a front for her illegal activities. In March of 2015 she was charged. Despite that, the very NSWP article I linked paints Gil out to be a victim, and dismisses her guilt.

“Turn off the blue light” is a primarily European campaign, whose mission is “to raise awareness on the violence, crimes and discrimination against sex workers, a marginalized female group and mobilize public opinion and stakeholders in order to tackle these phenomena” Despite this self-proclaimed mission, the campaign is backed and funded by characters such as Peter McCormick, a convicted pimp who rakes in millions of Euros from his online prostitution service annually. Additionally, his son, who was convicted of running 6 brothels is another advocate for the campaign. TJ Carrol is yet another of these traffickers and pimps who supported the campaign. Carrol ran the largest trafficking/prostitution ring in Ireland, and utilized African gangs to traffick women and sell them into sexual slavery, where oftentimes they were horribly abused and unable to escape. Carrol and his associates used voodoo rituals to terrify African women into staying in the industry, and he also groomed his daughter into the business. Tony Linnane is yet another convicted pimp who backed the campaign. He was also connected to an incident wherein a woman was “threatened with being burned alive after gasoline was thrown on her.” Had enough yet? Mihai Selaru is a brother owner and pimp who plead guilty to beating the prostitutes forced to work for him, and threatened to starve a woman if she did not bring in more business.

Claudia Brizuela, a former leader of Asociacion de Mujeres Meretrices de Argentina (Association of Women Prostitutes of Argentina) (AMMAR) and a founder of the Latin American-Caribbean Female Sex Workers Network (LA-CFSWN), was arrested and charged with sex trafficking. The LA-CFSWN was represented by none other than Gil Alejandra.

Julie Bindel, through her fantastic and diligent research, discovered that the #notyourrescueproject hashtag and campaign, which claimed to be a “sex-worker-led” campaign was actually created and sustained by burner accounts of Dr. John Davies by women he had pimped and trafficked. Primarily, he posed as a disenfranchised woman from the Indian sub-continent named “Molli Desi.” All of the pictures of “Molli” were actually pictures of a woman he had trafficked from Bangladesh. Davies was a Visiting Research Fellow with the Centre for Migration Studies Department of Sussex University, where he routinely hid behind his respectability as a doctor in order to promote trafficking denialism. Davies was also involved in an adoption scheme called the King Solomon Foundation, which operated out of Romania, and where he sold the children of prostituted women for up to $20,000.

Liberal feminists and pro-“sex work” advocates, have you asked yourself who is benefiting from the constant platitudes you throw out? When you forego listening to the experiences of actual women who live in these conditions, the women who have been forever harmed and scarred by these immoral industries, and instead parrot talking points made by child predators, traffickers, pimps, and sexbuyers, who do you think is benefiting? I used to be like you. I used to spout the “sex workers deserve rights, and the way to go about that is through legalization” talking points. That stopped once I started dedicating time to researching the endless campaigns, legislative bodies and lobbyists that end up being the ones who are actively hurting women and selling them into sexual slavery. I started reading theory from women who have dedicated their lives to the protection and advocacy for women who don’t have the privilege of seeking these outlets themselves. Almost one million men, women, and children are trafficked every year alone. Have you ever critically addressed why you support legislation that increases this number? Why you claim we’re “sex-worker” exclusive when our feminism seems to be the only kind that seeks to abolish the sexual violence that pervades still? Empowerment is not commodifying women and selling us into sexual slavery. Empowerment is a state of being that requires that we have the conditions to make choices free of economic or otherwise violent coercion, or ultimatums that force women into inescapable circumstances. Wanting to legalize sexbuying, pimping, or brothel-owning is the advocacy of selling women for men’s sexual pleasure no matter the cost, and attempts to codify into law the types of situations that cause women to become prostitutes or trafficked individuals rather than eradicating the sociocultural, economic, political, and legislative plagues that commodify & objectify women, and force them into scenarios where they must submit to the sexual wills of men to survive.

[fictocriticisma-deactivated2022]

Reblogging because not a whole lot of people were following me when I wrote this out

[antiporn-activist]

someone was looking for this…here it is.

[dontworryfolkswetookallherteeth]

"Several studies have found that women are systematically cited less than men. Over the past twenty years, men have self-cited 70% more than women – and women tend to cote other women more than men do, meaning that the publication gap is something of a vicious circle: fewer women getting published leads to a citations gap, which in turn means fewer women progress as they should in their careers, and around again we go." - Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women

[kiefbowl]

if you're online too much as a young woman and you forget to read books you'll get convinced that the reason you don't have power in your life is because you aren't pretty and that your life is doomed despite living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world with unprecedented freedoms. and it's fine at the end of the day like you're not committing the most egregious thought crimes you possibly could, but just make sure you're partying a little. like once a month maybe.

[z0ruas]

In analyzing the sex-class system, feminists are accused of inventing or perpetuating it. Calling attention to it, we are told, insults women by suggesting that they are victims, stupid enough to allow themselves to be victimized. Feminists are accused of being the agents of degradation by postulation that such degradation exists.

— Andrea Dworkin

[mynowherenothing]

Earth is so crazy we literally have the ingredients of sandwiches here..

[almostno1makesitout]

im like if a poet or perhaps another writer of some sort never wrote anything

[boyfriend-beater]

men will be like. the most attractive thing a woman can be is 15 years old. and expect u to treat them as intellectual equals

[ihatemenandtherearereasons]

Exhibit 2726

[hadesoftheladies]

hey man that's a really neat analysis of structural oppression and discrimination you got there ever wondered what would happen if we applied it to women? you know, for science

[leatherlesbianstuff-deactivated]

Women being shown how to examine themselves at the LA self-help clinic, Bettye Lane, 1972.

Happy International Women’s Day!

We’ve come so far but there’s still so much further to go 💪

Sourced from @womenphotographershistory on Instagram

[bloody-monstrous-wolf]

[theoryfem]

me writing my thesis

[acquiredalias]

THIS PICTURE JUST MADE MY LIFE.