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History: Bluestockings - The First Women’s Movement Susannah Gibson — How the bluestockings used wit and learning to subvert a deeply misogynist culture

History: Bluestockings - The First Women’s Movement Susannah Gibson — How the bluestockings used wit and learning to subvert a deeply misogynist culture | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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Author Studies: A new book on Octavia Butler and her lost manuscripts

Author Studies: A new book on Octavia Butler and her lost manuscripts | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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Mary Beard’s Radical Feminist Manifesto

Mary Beard’s Radical Feminist Manifesto | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
“There are two things you need to know about it. The first is that what Mary Beard has to say is powerful: here are more than a few pretty useful stones for the slingshots some of us feel we …
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From The Second Sex to The Beauty Myth: 10 of the best feminist texts

From The Second Sex to The Beauty Myth: 10 of the best feminist texts | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Twentieth-century polemical writing that changed the way we think about gender, chosen by Barbara Ellen
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Classic Appreciation: 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)

Classic Appreciation: 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792) | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
This radical text attacked the dominant male thinkers of the age and laid the foundations of feminism
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Classic Appreciation: 'A Room of One’s Own' by Virginia Woolf (1929) - One of the greatest feminist essays of all time

Classic Appreciation: 'A Room of One’s Own' by Virginia Woolf (1929) - One of the greatest feminist essays of all time | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Virginia Woolf’s essay on women’s struggle for independence and creative opportunity is a landmark of feminist thought
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Essay: 'Drawn from history'  by Nicola Streeten - How comic books have treated serious themes, here focusing on narratives of the Nazi genocide, and the role of comics as a platform for women artists

Essay: 'Drawn from history'  by Nicola Streeten - How comic books have treated serious themes, here focusing on narratives of the Nazi genocide, and the role of comics as a platform for women artists | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The comics form, with its strong visual and dramatic ... element, has proven to be effective at helping us to engage with difficult subjects
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A superb, informed and insightful essay by Nicola Streeten, herself an illustrator, graphic novelist and also the first British woman to publish a graphic memoir,  'Billy, Me & You'.
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Feminist Advice: 'Dear Ijeawele' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, bestselling novelist

Feminist Advice: 'Dear Ijeawele' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, bestselling novelist | Writers & Books | Scoop.it

In “Dear Ijeawele,” new in hardcover nonfiction, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie counsels a childhood friend on how to raise empowered girls.

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10 books for your feminist delectation (recommended by NI mag readers)

10 books for your feminist delectation (recommended by NI mag readers) | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
As chosen by our readers... (Some great #Feminist #books to read - check 'em out. No2 is our absolute favourite - How many have you read?
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The Dark Side of Dolls: Orly Lobel's 'You Don't Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment exposed Barbie’s dark side' 

The Dark Side of Dolls: Orly Lobel's 'You Don't Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment exposed Barbie’s dark side'  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Rebecca Asher on the malign aspect of doll-making
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Essay: Feminist Historian Sheila Rowbotham on the Pioneering Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Radical Polemic, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women'

Essay: Feminist Historian Sheila Rowbotham on the Pioneering Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Radical Polemic, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women' | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
An essay-appreciation of  the 18th-century pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, and an extract from Rowbotham's introduction to Wollstonecraft's groundbreaking work A Vindication of the Rights of Women,
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Essay-Review: 'The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography' by Edmund Gordon 

Essay-Review: 'The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography' by Edmund Gordon  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
For the English writer, literature and feminism had the power to upend the fictions that regulate our world
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Gloria E. Anzaldúa: 5 Facts About the Influential Feminist Cultural Theorist and Author

Gloria E. Anzaldúa: 5 Facts About the Influential Feminist Cultural Theorist and Author | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Gloria E. Anzaldúa, an influential cultural theorist and author, is the subject of a Google Doodle on what would have been Gloria Anzaldúa's 75th birthday.
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Gender & Science: New books reviewed by Carol Tavris, renowned social psychologist and author

Gender & Science: New books reviewed by Carol Tavris, renowned social psychologist and author | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
How women are viewed, after people attempt to explain gender differences with both bigotry and biology, and how this should change as gender has changed
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Essay: The World of Adrienne Rich, radical feminist, poet, essayist

Adrienne Rich’s politics developed over many years because she came by them as an artist—which may be what allowed her to become, unusually, both more self-questioning and more combative as she aged.
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Podcast Interview with Laura Beers about her new biography: 'Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist'

Podcast Interview with Laura Beers about her new biography: 'Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist' | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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Profile interview with Roxane Gay, essayist (Bad Feminist), debut novelist (An Untamed State), & assistant prof. of English

Profile interview with Roxane Gay, essayist (Bad Feminist), debut novelist (An Untamed State), & assistant prof. of English | Writers & Books | Scoop.it

She likes pink, will dance to Blurred Lines, occasionally fakes an orgasm… and worries that the sisterhood would not approve.

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Fantastical, Feminist Horror: An Appreciation of Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber' story collection

Fantastical, Feminist Horror: An Appreciation of Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber' story collection | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The Feminist Horror Author You Need to Read Immediately Vulture Her prose is simultaneously ornate and energetic to the point of recklessness, like a cathedral on roller-skates going downhill, and as sensual as fiction can be without getting your...
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