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Looking for some suggestions for feminism theory and stuff on misogyny

Basically the title. I'm involved in a local leftist group that is organizing but the subject on misogyny was brought up because we've had some issues of men in the group talking over the women in the group or dismissing them. A comrade and I are trying to come up withe some texts for education to address this issue but we've both realized this is a blind spot in our theory knowledge. I suggested Caliban and the Witch and The Second Sex but after that I'm kind of drawing a blank.

Any and all suggestions are appreciated as always. Marxist and anarchist texts are both welcome.

Thanks!

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Check out bell hooks. The will to change is specifically on misogyny. I don’t think Federici or de Beauvoir will help you because they are more about systems of patriarchy rather than individual acts of misogyny.
- bell hooks is a bit weird about trans women 😬
  
  Haven’t heard about that
- I don’t think Federici or de Beauvoir will help you because they are more about systems of patriarchy rather than individual acts of misogyny.
  I even said as much when we were talking. Gonna run The Will to Change by them. Thanks!
  
  There was a book club on menby about The Will to Change half a year ago. Maybe you'll find the discussions interesting. I loved the book as a primer for self reflection.
I don't think Caliban and the Witch is what you're after. Very cool text but it's much more about transition from feudalism to capitalism than about misogyny
- i've read some pretty harsh criticism of its historiography too. don't think it's considered as much of a goto recommendation as it used to be
- That's sort of what we gathered. I think it's off the table as a rec for this subject at this point.
Angela Davis' Women, race, and class is essential reading I think, and it translates something most people are familiar with, the language and oppression of racism and capitalism, with the perspective of women in the US, or in most settler colonies, for that matter.
The second sex is good, if a bit outdated, but it's such a long and thorough book that unless you find very specific excerpts to fuel discussion, it's going to feel like a slog.
- Angela Davis' Women, race, and class
  Gonna pass this along and also grab it for myself. Thanks!
Trans/Rad/Fem by Talia Bhatt is really good and explains misogyny, transmisogyny, lesbophobia etc in a materialist manner.
- Awesome! Gonna pass it along and also add it to my own library as well! Thanks!
  
  https://taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understanding-transmisogyny-part

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