Who has the recs?
How the fuck has “Women, Race, and Class” by Angela Davis not been mentioned yet?
One thing I would strongly recommend is being wary of anything that is second wave feminism or earlier. The majority of 1st and 2nd wave western feminist movements were white and cishet centered. They were largely focused on getting access to the power structures of patriarchy and imperialism for white cishet women instead of true liberation.
There are also a lot of issues in second wave feminism around viewing masculinity and men as somehow inherently evil, which is total bullshit and leads to bizarre reactionary concepts like “political lesbianism” and TERFs.
I’m sure there is some interesting work in there if you can read it critically, but I view it as having minimal modern use in comparison to modern intersectional feminism.
Feminism for the 99% if you want I can let you borrow it next time I see you, totally random hexbear user whom I’ve definitely never met in real life.
:meow-hug: That’d be swell! Just started Jakarta Method today, so I’ll be working through that for a bit.
Have you been missing the Hexbear meetups? There’s posters all over Quantico advertising them, they’re hard to miss.
Meat market: female flesh under capitalism
The dialectics of sex
My literacy with feminist theory is low, but Sylvia Federici and Barbara Ehrenreich are both cool
Ehrenreich’s What Is Socialist Feminism is a blassic.
I think Federici’s seminal work is Caliban and the Witch but I haven’t read it.
caliban and the witch is absolutely amazing and i would highly recommend it to everyone. its a fantastic work of steadfastly materialist history that centres the place of women and their labour (as both actors and subjects) in a robust examination of the class struggles between the aristocracy/bourgeoisie/peasantry-into-proletariat in the centuries of transition from feudalism to capitalism in europe, and its both academic and also quite easy to read
I haven’t read Caliban and the Witch either, but have heard good things. It’s on my already too long reading list.
