radfem fiction recommendations?

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Can anyone recommend any novels/ poetry influenced by (radical) feminism? Thanks (not atwood or lessing)

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Yy to Marge Piercy. Also Dietland by Sarai Walker & The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall.

Seconding Woman on the Edge of Time. I still want to live in the little village in the book - I'm being vague as I don't want to spoil it.

A very recent novel is Lissa Evans' Old Baggage. Lissa is GC and the book is set in 1928, featuring two suffragette veterans. It's a great pageturner.

I used to like Angela Carter, particularly her re-writing of fairy stories. As a teenager she was my go-to. Toni Morrison's Beloved is a novel that - I thought - really got to the heart of a woman's experience and our voices.

The Female Man - Joana Russ

Octavia Butler is excellent if you enjoy science fiction (although she hated being described as a science-fiction writer!)

Vox
The Power

Sort of science fiction - y

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I would recommend this short story online btw, 'the husband stitch' granta.com/the-husband-stitch/

The Power by Naomi Alderman

I don’t know if it’s the kind of thing you’re looking for, but Circe by Madeline Miller is absolutely beautiful and completely female-centred.

Lots of feminist Science Fiction. Here's a few:

Sheri S Tepper, The Gate to Women's Country (matriarchy, violence, oppression)

Octavia Butler, Kindred (themes are race, gender, sexuality)

Ursula K LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness (effect of sex and gender on culture and society)

Also

Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (retelling of the Iliad from female POV; unflinchingly showing the effect the actions of men have on women, especially the brutality of war)

Disclaimer: my recommendations are certainly feminist, but can't vouch for radfem POV.

Curveball here, may be me . I am about halfway through jasper fordea early riser and I still haven’t worked out if the lead character is Male or female.

Vox is sort of Atwood lite. I thought The Bees was feminist in a subtle way, the main character really embodied for me what being a mother feels like even though she's not human.

Oh, definitely Toni Morrison RIP

Also, Children of Time is interesting because it reverses male and female roles. It kind of makes the inequalities stand out, like The Man Who on Twitter/Facebook

Aliette de bodard the tea master and the detective , more sci if, has primarily female characters which made me realise how many sci fi books are primarily male characters ( not say8ng much for my observation and critical thinking I know)

Also I just read an Ambrose Perry book and it's feminist in a drawing attention to how shit child birth and not being able to access abortions are.

Another one recommending The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker. A great read

Dora: A Headcase by Lidia Yuknavitch - completely off the wall, funny and heartbreaking, tears apart the horrendous sexism and misogyny of Freudian psychoanalysis.

Also loved Circe!
I’m reading Frankisstein by Jeanette Winterson which is a trans retelling of Frankenstein. Halfway through and certainly no falling into easy gender stereotypes or special pleading so far.

Have you read The Yellow Wallpaper? Seriously horrifying and good!

The Yellow Wallpaper. Is disturbing.

Suzette Haden Elgin - Native Tongue and The Judas Rose