In this episode, Emma provides an overview of second wave, radical feminism. What does it mean to be a radical feminist, and is this term still useful today? Listen to find out!
Reading list:
Nachescu, Voichita. “Radical Feminism and the Nation: History and Space in the Political Imagination of Second-Wave Feminism.” <i>Journal for the Study of Radicalism</i>, vol. 3, no. 1, 2009, pp. 29–59. <i>JSTOR</i>, www.jstor.org/stable/41887617
Leigh Miller, A History of Radical Feminism https://www.sutori.com/story/a-history-of-radical-feminism–Pf5HsUfrBG26boQJdwtLbWUS
Kathie Sarachild, Conciousness Raising Groups: A Radical Weapon, https://vrrws.seriousotters.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Feminist-Revolution-Consciousness-Raising-A-Radical-Weapon-Kathie-Sarachild.pdf
Carol Hanisch, The Personal is Political, https://webhome.cs.uvic.ca/~mserra/AttachedFiles/PersonalPolitical.pdf
Gillette, Meg. “Modern American Abortion Narratives and the Century of Silence.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 58, no. 4, 2012, pp. 663–687. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24247022
***Trigger Warning: This article is explicit, and speaks about sexual violence***
Andrea Dworkin, Prostitution and Male Supremacy, http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/MichLawJourI.html
Erica West, The Pitfalls of Radical Feminism, https://jacobinmag.com/2017/07/radical-feminism-second-wave-class
Roz Kaveney, Woman Enough, https://www.advocate.com/print-issue/current-issue/2014/07/16/woman-enough
Audre Lorde, The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, from the book Sister Outsider, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32951.Sister_Outsider
Barry, Kathleen. “The Underground Economic System Of Pimping.” <i>Journal of International Affairs</i>, vol. 35, no. 1, 1981, pp. 117–127. <i>JSTOR</i>, www.jstor.org/stable/24357006
Barry, Kathleen. “Female Sexual Slavery: Understanding the International Dimensions of Women’s Oppression.” <i>Human Rights Quarterly</i>, vol. 3, no. 2, 1981, pp. 44–52. <i>JSTOR</i>, www.jstor.org/stable/761856
Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.” <i>Stanford Law Review</i>, vol. 43, no. 6, 1991, pp. 1241–1299. <i>JSTOR</i>, www.jstor.org/stable/1229039. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.