Essential Feminist Literature

[...] irony of it needles me every time I pick up my 1983 paperback edition of Outrageous Acts And Everyday Rebellions. Inside, Gloria Steinem writes about the wastefulness of ‘valuing myself and other women [...]

[...] “Bill Gates and the Beatles are two of Gladwell’s outliers, and he credits both with considerable natural gifts. But just as crucial as their innate creativity, he says, are their circumstances,” is the Independent’s summation. Virginia Woolf Compare: “Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.” Virginia Woolf wrote that in 1928, in the address later published as A Room of One’s Own. [...]

[...] on my list of favourite feminist books is Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Clear, succinct and utterly [...]