@iwashyna@bookstodon Finally my public library had After Sappho on the shelf! #AmReading these smart and beautifully written, challenging, and inter-related 'cascading vignettes' of #women's lives. 'Tho things have changed on the surface, we all need to pay attention to the genitive. The masculine continues as "the patron and the possessor and the proprietor and the patriarch" in too many women's lives.
Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism, by Sheila Jeffreys
The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male, by Janice Raymond
I haven’t read Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier just yet but it’s on my list.
See, unlike radfems who refuse to read trans-positive literature and who refuse to read intersectional feminist books that (gasp) defend men, I am not afraid to read books by people I disagree with.
It’s why I’m able to debate radfems so well – I’ve read their literature. They haven’t read mine, and are often completely unaware of the criticisms of the history of their own movement.
If you would like to read some trans-positive books and intersectional feminism, check out these books:
The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity and Love by bell hooks
On Intersectionality: Essential Writings, by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Stone Butch Blues, by Leslie Feinberg
And, one book that isn’t specifically under the umbrella of intentional intersectional feminism. I include this one because it was so influential on me as a young teen when I read it:
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
If anyone has additional trans-positive or intersectional feminism books they recommend, please put them in the comments below!