I recently came across this article on twitter: www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2016/08/anorexia-breast-binding-and-legitimisation-body-hatred
Specifically this quote "To really, truly get to the heart of what is wrong with female flesh, why it feels so hateful and alien to so many of us, we need to relate our alienation to the uses and abuses to which this flesh is put.", and something clicked, and I understood my own (past) eating disorder and gender dysphoria differently, as a reaction to how I understood society viewed my female body.
I have always called myself a feminist, because of equal pay, equal rights, but reading this made me understand that feminism is not just about equality in law, but about how society is structured (I can be slow on the uptake). I am probably being horribly imprecise explaining or even understanding this, and my head is rather spinning with new thoughts right now.
I know many women have thought more deeply and coherently about this than me, and I could really benefit from reading their thoughts, but I am struggling to find any entry-level text. Online, things seem either written for feminist academics who have a whole vocabulary I don't understand, or are aimed at feminism 101, which covers much of what I thought I already understood feminism to be.
Probably I am just not used to googling this subject, and don't know the right key words to use. Could anyone suggest some intro-level texts that tackle these ideas without using too many subject-specific words?