Feminist Book Group
This women-only feminist book group is run by members of the London Feminist Network and pro-feminist women are welcome to join us. We meet from 7pm to about 9pm on the third Tuesday of the month near Euston station in central London. For information about how to get involved, see our Join Us page or email lfnbookgroup @ yahoo.co.uk (remove spaces).
We aim to work out the list of books well in advance in order to give time to obtain and then read them. (Scroll down for ideas about how to get the books if you are having difficulty.) Generally we add another book to the list at each meeting, after a short discussion in which everyone is free to suggest books.
Dates and books for 2008
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16 September |
The Politics of Reality by Marilyn Frye |
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21 October |
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde |
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18 November |
Encounters with Strangers: Feminism and Disability by Jenny Morris |
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16 December |
Femicide: The Politics of Woman Killing by Jill Radford and Diana E.H. Russell |
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20 January |
That Takes Ovaries! Bold Females and Their Brazen Acts by Rivka Solomon |
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17 February |
Women of Ideas And What Men Have Done to Them by Dale Spender |
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18 March |
Herland and the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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15 April |
Talkin' Up to the White Woman by Aileen Moreton-Robinson |
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19 May |
Women as Agents of Revolutionary Change by Shere Hite |
Getting hold of the books
If you are having difficulty obtaining the books, you may want to try ordering them online. What I generally do is to go to http://www.amazon.co.uk/ and search for the book there. Once I've found it, I click the "Used" link. This lists independent book sellers who are selling the book second hand, often very cheaply, although there's postage and packing on top. Generally I choose sellers who are based in the UK and who say they can despatch within a couple of days. Alternatively, you could try your local library, if necessary ordering it. However, this sometimes takes some time.
Also highly recommended is The Owl Bookshop, 209 Kentish Town Road, London, NW5 2JU (020 7485 7793). They are open 9.30-6pm Monday-Saturday and noon-4.30pm on Sundays. If they don't have the book in stock, they will try and get it secondhand for an admin charge of about £3, plus postage.
Books we've read
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Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier |
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Right Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females by Andrea Dworkin |
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Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines (The Holdfast Chronicles, Books 1 & 2 - also known as The Slave and The Free) by Suzy McKee Charnas |
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From Where We Stand: War, Women's Activism and Feminist Analysis by Cynthia Cockburn |
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Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography edited by C. Stark and Rebecca Whisnant |
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The Idea of Prostitution by Sheila Jeffreys |
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Femininity by Susan Brownmiller |
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The SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas |
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The Female Man by Joanna Russ |
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Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin |
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood |
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The Creation of Feminist Consciousness from the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner |
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi |
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My Mother My Self by Nancy Friday |
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women by Susan Faludi |
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Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy |
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The Women's Room by Marilyn French |
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Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A MacKinnon |
