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Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership, Shirley Lew and Baharak Yousefi (2017) The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness, Jill Filipovic (2017) The Feminist Reference Desk, Maria T. Accardi (2017) Nasty Women, edited by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding (2017) Women and Power: A Manifesto, Mary Beard (2017)
Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing and defending equal civil, political, economic and social rights for women. It often identifies women's roles as unequal to those of men – particularly as regards status, privilege and power – and generally portrays the consequences to ...
Feminism is now more popular than ever. We've rounded up out favorite 15 books that will bring out your inner #nasty woman. 15 feminist books every woman should read
Feminist children's literature has played a critical role for the feminist movement, especially in the past half century. In her book Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, bell hooks states her belief that all types of media, including writing and children's books, need to promote feminist ideals. She argues "Children's literature is ...
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Perrault's French fairy tales, for example, were collected more than a century before the Grimms' and provide a more complex view of womanhood. But as the most popular, and the most riffed-on, the Grimms' are worth analyzing, especially because today's women writers are directly confronting the stifling brand of femininity they proliferated.
The Feminine Mystique is a book by American author Betty Friedan, widely credited with sparking second-wave feminism in the United States. [2] First published by W. W. Norton on February 19, 1963, The Feminine Mystique became a bestseller, initially selling over a million copies.
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."