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Dale Spender's works, especially 'Women of ideas' - great for banishing the notion that women have only recently made major contributions to literature, culture, and so on. Explains mechanisms by which women's writing was eliminated from canon between generations of academia.
Sarah Hrdy 'Mother Nature'; ethologist writing about infanticide and other manifestations of evolution in motherhood.
Jack Holland's 'A brief history of misogyny, the world's oldest prejudice'. I found this truly shocking and enlightening - and he mentions that some of the men he encountered whilst writing it assumed he was excusing or minimizing misogyny.
Barbara McClintock's 'A feeling for the organism', biography, an inspiring biological scientist of the last century. She seems to me to be uncompromising in her commitment to her own approach: that attitude cn be difficult to achieve when 'male = normal = correct' in so many science working cultures.
SARK, colourful gentle playful encouraging art/journalling books.
Lara Owen's 'Her blood is gold', about getting a positive attitude to menstruation, and using the powerful creativity of premenstrual days constructively.
Laura Kaplan Shanley's 'Unassisted childbirth'. She's an American woman who chose to believe in herself and her body, and birth her children alone. She created a truly positive harmonious birth experience, inspiring thousands of others.
Deborah Tannen's work, on gender and how it affects verbal communication. She has the numbers on whether women really 'talk too much'.
Julia Cameron's 'The Artist's Way' and other works: creative development course - good for believing in yourself. Not explicitly feminist but I think it's a hugely beneficial text given how little most of us were trained to overcome criticism and negativity and give ourselves permission to create. |
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