Feminism resources

Again there is much too much to read, if you want a comprehensive understanding of the feminist contribution to political thought. Do try to get through the first three items listed below, and whatever else you have time for.

1. A very brief piece everyone should read if they haven’t already is:

Sojourner Truth speaking in 1851

http://www.feminist.com/resources/artspeech/genwom/sojour.htm

2. I wish there was an entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia for “Feminist Political Thought”, but there isn’t, so we have to make do with Rosemarie Tong’s article on “Feminist Ethics” at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-ethics/. Tong discusses many of the other writers we are reading this week, including Wolstonecraft, Mill, and Bartky, and she discusses in some detail the thinkers whose views are criticized by Katha Pollitt in the next listed piece.

3. Katha Pollitt, “Marooned on Gilligan’s Island: Are Women Morally Superior to Men”

http://womhist.binghamton.edu/era/doc35.htm

and replies: http://womhist.binghamton.edu/era/doc36.htm

4. Susan Moller Okin, “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?”

http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR22.5/okin.html

A variety of replies to Okin (and her response) are indexed at http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR22.5/

5. . Eleanor Holmes Norton, “Notes of a Feminist Long Distance Runner”

http://www.feminist.com/resources/artspeech/genwom/notes.html

6. Katha Pollit, “Feminism’s Unfinished Business”

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97nov/pollitt.htm

7. For an uncompromisingly radical version of feminism, you can sample many of the writings of Andrea Dworkin (and some of her frequent collaborator Catherine MacKinnon) at http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/OnlineLibrary.html.

8. For a feminist utopia (something like “Looking Backward”) see Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland, online at http://www.artemispress.com/cpgilman2.html.