Feminism

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Hume once said that the doctrine of the real presence of the flesh and blood of Christ in the eucharist was, "so absurd, it eludes the force of all argument"; and I feel much the same way about those who oppose feminism.

I would further point out to those concerned with preserving "family values" the well-known result of various experiments with keeping respectable women in their proper sphere: intelligent men were only interested in prostitutes and each other. The fact is that unliberated women are boring, so we penis people can only gain...

Recommended:
• Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique [A horror story.]
• Fatima Mernissi, Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World
• John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
• Katha Pollitt, Reasonable Creatures, and her regular column in The Nation; Pollitt is pretty near the top of my ballot for World Dictator.
• Janet Radcliffe Richards, The Sceptical Feminist ["Some men are quite as capable of logical thinking and scientific investigation as women": p. 4]
• Virginia Valian, Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women [Review: Mind-Forg'd Obstacles]

To read:
• Azra Asghar Ali, Emergence of Feminism Among Indian Muslim Women, 1920--1947
• Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers, Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs
• Lynda Birke, Feminism and the Biological Body
• Leslie Brody, Gender, Emotion, and the Family
• Henry Etzkowitz, Carol Kemelgor and Brian Uzzi, Athena Bound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology
• Jane Gerhard, Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982
• Janet Halley, Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism
• Mary S. Hartman, The Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past
• Nancy J. Hirschmann, The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom
• bell hooks
  Feminism is for Everybody The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love
• Christopher F. Karpowitz & Tali Mendelberg, The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions
• Sally L. Kitch, Higher Ground: From Utopianism to Realism in American Feminist Thought and Theory
• Glenna Matthews, Rise of Public Woman
• Anne Phillips, Multiculturalism without Culture
• Pollitt, "Feminism's Unfinished Business"
• Sarah Gwyneth Ross, The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England
• Sheila Rowbotham, Dreams of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century
• Londa Schiebinger, Has Feminism Changed Science?
• Christine Stansell, The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present
• Tavris, Mismeasure of Women
• Griet Vandermassen, Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin? Debating Feminism and Evolutionary Theory
• Kate Weigand, Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation
• Martin King Whyte, The Status of Women in Preindustrial Societies
• Marlene Zuk, Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex from Animals