Feminist Radical Thinkers: A Sampler

by Michèle Barrett, Mary McIntosh, Juliet Mitchel

A collection of extracts from leading second-wave feminists, including Michèle Barrett, Mary McIntosh, Lynne Segal, Sheila Rowbotham and Juliet Mitchell

Genres: Nonfiction, Feminism, Politics

232 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2015

Reviews

[Rayyan Mikati · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read with an eye towards the time and place of their production… a good sampling of the intellectual history of feminism, even if some parts don’t feel congruent with my own personal experiences as a feminist, for example.

[Sophie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Currently free from Verso Books - this ebook contains extracts from four radical feminist thinkers. I found this an excellent and concise introduction to their ideas, though it wouldn’t be my recommendation for someone new to feminist thought, as it doesn’t reflect contemporary thinking on LGBTQ+ feminists or nonbinary people, due to when the essays were written. Included are:

•The Anti-Social Family: a socialist critique and evaluation of the nuclear family
•Straight Sex: a manifesto arguing that heterosexual sex hurts women
•Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World: considering the progression of feminist thought in a patriarchy
•Woman’s Estate: a socialist-feminist statement outlining a new world vision