Feminist Reads | Library Finds 📚

Good evening 🍋8️⃣ residents,

Here are some books I found at my uni library that I find interesting. I have been searching for feminist articles and it is easily found under the “woman discourse” section. Before I knew of its existence I usually lurked around “world history” section and it’s where I found these gems:)

1) Language and Silence by George Steiner

Actually I just want to read an essay titled “Night Words” as it centered a worldwide problem: pornography. I have little interest over the other essays but I might also read “The Hollow Miracle”.

2) Feminist Criticism: Women as Contemporary Critics by Maggie Humm

Of course the best course of action is to read this book from start to finish but for starters I am planning to read a chapter that analyses Virginia Woolf’s literary work💕

3) ちょっと見るだけ or Just Looking by Rachel Bowlby

“The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George Gissing and Emile Zola, Just Looking, first published in 1985, addresses itself to a central paradox of the period: the perceived antithesis of the terms "commerce" and "culture" which emerged at a time which saw the actual drawing together of commercial and cultural practices.

Drawing on structural, psychoanalytic and Marxist-feminist theory, Rachel Bowlby retrieves a relatively neglected literary area for contemporary political and theoretical concerns, re-establishing the naturalist novel as a rich source for feminists, literary theorists and cultural historians.” - Routledge

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World history is not just Britain, France and US but okay maybe it was a different section 😅

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