Check out bell hooks. The will to change is specifically on misogyny. I don’t think Federici or de Beauvoir will help you because they are more about systems of patriarchy rather than individual acts of misogyny.
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bell hooks is a bit weird about trans women 😬
Haven’t heard about that
Just make them read some Leslie Feinberg afterward to even them out. Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue is probably hir most accessible work.
e: updated to an actually free copy of the text, even though the formatting sucks
I have my own issues with feinberg lol
Make them read both hooks and Feinberg, then any bear of a man, six-three in his barefeet, 215 pound in his underwear granite-faced types in the group can read True Allegiance together.
I don’t think Federici or de Beauvoir will help you because they are more about systems of patriarchy rather than individual acts of misogyny.
I even said as much when we were talking. Gonna run The Will to Change by them. Thanks!
There was a book club on menby about The Will to Change half a year ago. Maybe you'll find the discussions interesting. I loved the book as a primer for self reflection.
That's actually why it's in my library lol. I grabbed it but never made it to the discussions.
I don't think Caliban and the Witch is what you're after. Very cool text but it's much more about transition from feudalism to capitalism than about misogyny
i've read some pretty harsh criticism of its historiography too. don't think it's considered as much of a goto recommendation as it used to be
That's sort of what we gathered. I think it's off the table as a rec for this subject at this point.
Angela Davis' Women, race, and class is essential reading I think, and it translates something most people are familiar with, the language and oppression of racism and capitalism, with the perspective of women in the US, or in most settler colonies, for that matter.
The second sex is good, if a bit outdated, but it's such a long and thorough book that unless you find very specific excerpts to fuel discussion, it's going to feel like a slog.
Angela Davis' Women, race, and class
Gonna pass this along and also grab it for myself. Thanks!
Trans/Rad/Fem by Talia Bhatt is really good and explains misogyny, transmisogyny, lesbophobia etc in a materialist manner.
Awesome! Gonna pass it along and also add it to my own library as well! Thanks!
Will check this out, thanks!