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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Children's book about history of feminism?

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feminismforbeginners · 16/01/2023 10:14

Is there such a thing? DD9 is 9, and is currently really into Milli's Hill's (excellent!) 'My Period' book, while I've had to stop reading a Xmas present book about how the lack of interest/plain prejudice against female biology (wandering uteruses causing hysteria et al) has harmed women throughout history and continues to. This is because the poor author has to keep stopping and issuing clarifications to make sure that she doesn't come across as transphobic for talking about how prejudice against women historically has been so linked to female biology.

Is there such a thing as a history of feminism, how it related to female biology, and how the idea of feminism came about, which is suitable for a 9 year old?

DD knows about things like the suffragettes and that historically (and sometimes currently), women weren't expected or allowed to do much except get married and have children, but I wonder if there is anything more about the the 'theory' behind feminism and the idea of patriarchy?

Not expressing this very well, but hopefully the clever posters at FWR know what I mean!

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BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 16/01/2023 23:51

A Mighty Girl has quite extensive book lists on their site - don't know whether they have that specifically, but probably a good starting point.

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 16/01/2023 23:55

www.amightygirl.com/books

It is tilted towards the US, but not exclusively.

Syeknom · 17/01/2023 06:57

www.amazon.co.uk/Suffragette-Battle-Equality-David-Roberts/dp/1509839674

We got this one from the library, it's really good, I enjoyed reading it too!

PizzaNinja · 17/01/2023 11:12

I asked a children’s bookseller this question yesterday, and she said it’s not something she’d ever seen on the shelves for that age group. The closest would be something like the below books on positive role models from history for girls:

Kate Pankhurst

feminismforbeginners · 17/01/2023 14:49

Thanks all - I'm going to go off and look at the Mighty Girl website, and the Kate Pankhurst and Suffragette - Battle for Equality (like the art in that one!) books.

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