Best book to read

[tenlittledinosaurs]

Keen to know what books the active posters on this board would reccomend- the one that you mention to a friend, or you’ve had to buy a new copy of a few times because you never seem to get it back - that sort of thing

I hope I don’t get sarcastic replies to this! I love wandering into a bookshop and seeing the book reccomendations from the staff

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine

[UpstartCrow]

Backlash by Susan Faludi.

oceanofpdf.com/pdf-backlash-the-undeclared-war-against-american-women-download/

[thebewilderness]

Caliban and the Witch.

[DancelikeEmmaGoldman]

I've just started reading Naomi Wolf's "Vagina: a New Biography", it was first published in 2012, but I just picked up a copy. What I'm finding fascinating is her exploration of the neuroscience around the brain/vagina connection and it's impact on female sexuality. It's not just about the vagina as a body part, but the way a female body is interconnected though the nervous system.

[Summerhillsquare]

Second Vagina. Loved it and just started in the Beauty Myth. Anything by Wolf basically!

[Elendon]

I liked Dworkin's Right Wing Women. Such an interesting insight into why women vote for men who give them so little by way of equal rights.

Download here:

www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Andrea-DWORKIN-Right-Wing-Women-The-Politics-of-Domesticated-Females-19831.pdf

I also enjoyed reading The Female Eunuch and The Whole Woman by Greer. The latter is the update. It's essential reading into why women do feel disenfranchised in life, despite getting the vote and despite protesting for equality.

All books are easy to read and essential to the armoury that is feminism.

[SomeDyke]

Cordelia Fine, 'Delusions of Gender' or 'Testosterone Rex'. As regards Germaine Greer, I appreciate her much more than I did years ago, 'The Female Eunuch' or 'The Whole Woman'. I think reading some older stuff is a good chance to realise how some things have changed, and how some things have not (or even got worse!). Andrea Dworkin, feminist science fiction (Joanna Russ and Alyx stories, The Female Man, Marge Piercy and Woman on the Edge of Time).

[QuarksandLeptons]

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We should all be feminists
(Short, very readable introduction to feminism)

Cordelia Fine: Delusions of Gender
(An award winning neuroscientist discussing scientific evidence that the two sexes have the same brain but socialisation moulds the respective brains over time to create the imbalances we see)

Michelle Goldberg: The Means of Reproduction; Sex, Power & the future of the world
(Brilliant, very readable New York Times journalist, she gives a huge, historic overview of women’s lived realities and the fight for women’s rights over the past 50 years)

(Sorry for the cut and paste from a previous post!)