Feminist Literature

Hey!!! So I’ve got my GCSEs so this will be for over summer, but as a girl who wants to study philosophy - I really want to get into critical feminist theory. Here’s my list of books I want to read - but I think it needs diversifying, recommendations welcome including fiction around a feminist theme as well as films, podcasts etc.
Foundations of Feminist Philosophy
1. *The Second Sex**by Simone de Beauvoir
2. *The Feminine Mystique**by Betty Friedan
3. *A Room of One’s Own**by Virginia Woolf
4. *The Dialectic of Sex**by Shulamith Firestone
Gender Theory and Social Constructivism
1. *Gender Trouble**by Judith Butler
2. *The History of Sexuality: Volume 1**by Michel Foucault
3. *Whipping Girl**by Julia Serano
Contemporary Feminist Theory and Intersectionality
1. *Sister Outsider**by Audre Lorde
2. *Black Feminist Thought**by Patricia Hill Collins
3. *This Bridge Called My Back**edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
Queer Theory and Contemporary Critiques
1. *Undoing Gender**by Judith Butler
2. *Bodies That Matter**by Judith Butler
3. *Testo Junkie**by Paul B. Preciado
Additional Resources
- *Feminism is for Everybody**by bell hooks
- Podcasts: "Philosophize This!" and "History is Gay"

Judith Butler and Julia Serrano are charlatans. Please read "Material Girls" by Kathleen Stock. There is nothing remotely feminist about gender theory.

Um… Ok so I wanted to include gender theory in my study and no offense you come of as lowkey transphobic and condescending so thanks for the recommendation but um yeah

I am not anything phobic. Please open your mind and read Material Girls. See also The Female Eunuch by Germaine Girls and Sexual Politics by Kate Millett.

If you're looking at critical feminist theory, then I'd recommend books by Angela Davis (She's a Marxist Feminst and offers a Black female feminist perspective), Alexandra Kollontai (Marxist Feminism) and Deborah Cameron (Cameron looks into language, gender and sexuality mainly). If you want, I'd also recommend Friedrich Engels book, "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State".
I'd also recommend you start looking into the topic of Third World Women and Feminism as well as Postcolonial Feminism. With regards to Third World Women and Feminism, as well as Postcolonial Feminism, I'd recommend Ania Loomba, Renia Lewis and Sara Mills, and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Lourdes Torres and Ann Russo.

Ok! Yeah thankyou I was kinda rude, why do you think Judith Butler is a ‘charlatan’?

This article from 1999 has stood the test of time, and Butler has got worse, not better, since then. Butler can fairly be held responsible for some of the harm done to children which has been highlighted by the Cass Review and Hannah Barnes' "Time To Think", because Butler's crackpot ideas have even influenced some doctors.
https://newrepublic.com/article/150687/professor-parody
Butler is a defender of Islamic extremism, even though she would be murdered if she ever foot in an area controlled by Islamic extremists (Butler is gay, and has relatively recently started claiming to be non-binary). Butler's response to the rape, torture, and murder committed by Hamas on 7 October 2023 was to say this -
"I think it is more honest and historically correct to say that the uprising of October 7 was an act of armed resistance. It is not a terrorist attack and it is not an antisemitic attack."
Butler has hailed Hamas, a deeply reactionary and militantly Islamic group which opposes democracy and the rights of women and LGBT people, as "progressive" and "of the left".
Quite apart from her astonishingly bad ideas, Butler writes appallingly -
https://medium.com/paul-austin-murphys-essays-on-philosophy/judith-butlers-pretentious-and-obscurantist-writing-style-65663a5124a2

Wow! Thankyou so much, I have actually read some Martha C Nussbaum and never realised how bad Judith Butler was. I really appreciate you taking the time to explain and sorry again if I was rude - this has opened my eyes. I will read Material Girls! Tyyyyyy 😍

Thanks. I was not offended. I am a barrister, and my skin is thicker than the hide of a rhinoceros.
I regard Judith Butler as being in her own way as much an enemy of feminism as Jordan Peterson. He is at least overt in his misogyny, and he does not deny the existence of sex.
Butler might just be misguided, but her reaction to 7 October 23 suggests to me that Butler is an immoral person.
I think that Butler can fairly be accused of being a charlatan because she purveys ideas which are irrational, wrapped in deliberately opaque language. She relies on the Emperor's New Clothes effect.
She also uses cheap rhetorical tricks by stating as uncontested premises which are highly contentious.
Dr Stock, by contrast, writes clearly, and considers more than one point of view.