What books would you buy?

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I've just discovered a stash of book tokens I'd forgotten about. Whoopee! I'd like to support authors who have been vilified or even lost their publishers for their feminist beliefs. Also of course latest and best feminist books.

I've already bought "Irreversible Damage" by Abigail Shrier and "Trans" by Helen Joyce. And I have Holly Lawford-Smith’s “Gender-Critical Feminism” on my shopping list.

I'm also planning to buy some of Rachel Rooney's children's books, and can anyone remember the name of the children's writer whose publishers caved in to transactivist pressure and cancelled her, so she's now a lorry driver?

Thanks. All recommendations welcome!

invisible women

Material Girls - Kathleen Stock, is a must!

Gillian Philip is the lorry driver.

Ooh I just came on to say invisible women too. Have to admit I’m taking a break from it as it was making me too cross (not cross at the book, just cross at the fucking patriarchy!)

I’ll be watching this thread as I want to up my game in feminist literature.

I love the fiction of Lissa Evans who is a fine supporter of women's rights. By the way, she also produced Father Ted.

The power is not strictly a feminist book but its a story of what happens in society when women start getting electrical powers! Its thought provoking and has red cover! 😘

Wow, so many ideas already -- thanks!

I hadn't heard of The Power or Lissa Evans though I loved Father Ted so those are interesting new paths to explore. Kathleen Stock is a hero and I'll be glad to read anything she writes.

I might try ordering Gillian Philip and Rachel Rooney books from a local bookshop to see if I can raise a bit of consciousness.

I have to go food-shopping now but look forward to more later.

Onjali Rauf is a children’s author who has been targeted for the crime of saying that refugees need single sex spaces.

Jane Harris was booted off twitter for a long time.

Jane Clare Jones' blog posts are coming out as a book, too. The Annals of the Terf Wars is fantastically funny, so I have pre-ordered the book.

I discovered two excellent and new to me novelists during lockdown, brought to my attention on MN because of treatment meted out to them by gender activists: Jane Harris and Amanda Craig. 'Gillespie & I' by Jane Harris is a slow burn but I found it very rewarding. Amanda Craig's 'The Lie of the Land' and 'Hearts and Minds' are real page turners.