Feminism
02 Sep 2011 14:43Hume once said that the doctrine of the real presence of the flesh and blood of Christ in the eucharist was, ``so absurd, it eludes the force of all argument''; and I feel much the same way about those who oppose feminism.
I would further point out to those concerned with preserving ``family values'' the well-known result of various experiments with keeping respectable women in their proper sphere: intelligent men were only interested in prostitutes and each other. The fact is that unliberated women are boring, so we penis people can only gain...
- Recommended:
- Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique [A horror story.]
- Fatima Mernissi, Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World
- John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
- Katha Pollitt, Reasonable Creatures, and her regular column in The Nation; Pollitt is pretty near the top of my ballot for World Dictator.
- Janet Radcliffe Richards, The Sceptical Feminist ["Some men are quite as capable of logical thinking and scientific investigation as women": p. 4]
- Virginia Valian, Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women [Review: Mind-Forg'd Obstacles]
- To read:
- Azra Asghar Ali, Emergence of Feminism Among Indian Muslim Women, 1920--1947
- Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers, Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs
- Lynda Birke, Feminism and the Biological Body
- Leslie Brody, Gender, Emotion, and the Family [Blurb]
- Henry Etzkowitz, Carol Kemelgor and Brian Uzzi, Athena Bound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology
- Jane Gerhard, Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982
- Mary S. Hartman, The Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past [blurb]
- Nancy J. Hirschmann, The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom [blurb, ch. 1]
- Sally L. Kitch, Higher Ground: From Utopianism to Realism in American Feminist Thought and Theory [Blurb]
- Glenna Matthews, Rise of Public Woman
- Anne Phillips, Multiculturalism without Culture [blurb]
- Pollitt, "Feminism's Unfinished Business" [Piece in The Atlantic]
- Sarah Gwyneth Ross, The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England [blurb]
- Londa Schiebinger, Has Feminism Changed Science? [Blurb]
- Tavris, Mismeasure of Women
- Griet Vandermassen, Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin? Debating Feminism and Evolutionary Theory
- Kate Weigand, Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation [Blurb]
- Marlene Zuk, Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex from Animals [Blurb and introduction]
