http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2009/07/19#feminism <a href="hume.html">Hume</a> once said that the doctrine of the real presence of the flesh and blood of Christ in the eucharist was, ``so absurd, it eludes the force of all argument''; and I feel much the same way about those who oppose feminism. <P>I would further point out to those concerned with preserving ``family values'' the well-known result of various experiments with keeping respectable women in their proper sphere: intelligent men were only interested in prostitutes and each other. The fact is that unliberated women are <em>boring,</em> so we penis people can only gain... <ul>Recommended: <li>Betty Friedan, <cite>The Feminine Mystique</cite> [A horror story.] <li><a href="mernissi.html">Fatima Mernissi</a>, <cite>Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World</cite> <li>John Stuart Mill, <cite>The Subjection of Women</cite> <li>Katha Pollitt, <cite>Reasonable Creatures,</cite> and her regular column in <cite><a href="http://www.thenation.com/">The Nation</a></cite>; Pollitt is pretty near the top of my ballot for World Dictator. <li>Janet Radcliffe Richards, <cite>The Sceptical Feminist</cite> ["Some men are quite as capable of logical thinking and scientific investigation as women": p. 4] <li>Virginia Valian, <cite>Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women</cite> [<a href="../reviews/why-so-slow/">Review: Mind-Forg'd Obstacles</a>] </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Azra Asghar Ali, <cite>Emergence of Feminism Among Indian Muslim Women, 1920--1947</cite> <li>Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers, <cite>Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs</cite> <li>Lynda Birke, <cite>Feminism and the Biological Body</cite> <li>Leslie Brody, <cite>Gender, Emotion, and the Family</cite> [<a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/BROGEN.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Henry Etzkowitz, Carol Kemelgor and Brian Uzzi, <cite>Athena Bound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology</cite> <li>Jane Gerhard, <cite>Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982</cite> <li>Mary S. Hartman, <cite>The Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past</cite> [<a href="http://cambridge.org/9780521536691">blurb</a>] <li>Sally L. Kitch, <cite>Higher Ground: From Utopianism to Realism in American Feminist Thought and Theory</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13953.ctl">Blurb</a>] <li>Glenna Matthews, <cite>Rise of Public Woman</cite> <li>Anne Phillips, <cite>Multiculturalism without Culture</cite> [<a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8418.html">blurb</a>] <li>Pollitt, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97nov/pollitt.htm">"Feminism's Unfinished Business"</a> [Piece in <cite>The Atlantic</cite>] <li>Sarah Gwyneth Ross, <cite>The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England</cite> [<a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/ROSBIR.html">blurb</a>] <li>Londa Schiebinger, <cite>Has Feminism Changed Science?</cite> [<a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/S99Books/catalog/has_feminism_sci.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Tavris, <cite>Mismeasure of Women</cite> <li>Griet Vandermassen, <cite>Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin? Debating Feminism and Evolutionary Theory</cite> <li>Kate Weigand, <cite>Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.jhu.edu/press/books/titles/f02/f02were.htm">Blurb</a>] <li>Marlene Zuk, <cite>Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex from Animals</cite> [<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9600.html">Blurb and introduction</a>] </ul>