Feminist Frictions:Theorizing Radical Feminism
Digital Archive:
Theorizing Radical Feminism
Accompanying Breanne Fahs’s Feminist Frictions essay,
“The Urgent Need for Radical Feminism Today“
Other Digital Archive Page:
General Overviews and Histories
Andrea Dworkin at an anti-porn demonstration in New Orleans (Stoltenberg, with mustache, is at right), mid-eighties. Photo: John Goetz https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/11907/
New York Radical Women, photo: Bev Grant https://www.thecut.com/2017/11/an-oral-history-of-feminist-group-new-york-radical-women.html
Signs Articles
MacKinnon, Catharine A. “Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 8, no. 4 (1983): 635–58.
MacKinnon, Catharine A “Intersectionality as Method: A Note: Intersectionality: Theorizing Power, Empowering Theory.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38, no. 4 (2013): 1019–30.doi/full/10.1086/669570.
Bosley, Jocelyn. 2010. “From Monkey Facts to Human Ideologies: Theorizing Female Orgasm in Human and Nonhuman Primates, 1967–1983.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 35 (3): 647–71.
Diamond, Irene. “Pornography and repression: A reconsideration.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 5, no. 4 (1980): 686-701.
Dominy, Michèle D. 1986. “Lesbian-Feminist Gender Conceptions: Separatism in Christchurch, New Zealand.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 11 (2): 274–89.
Ferguson, Ann, Jaquelyn N. Zita, and Kathryn Pyne Addelson. “Patriarchy, sexual identity, and the sexual revolution.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 7, no. 1 (1981): 158-172.
hooks, bell, and Tanya McKinnon. “Sisterhood: Beyond Public and Private. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 21, no. 4, 1996, pp. 814–29.
Klesse, Christian. 2018. “Toward a Genealogy of a Discourse on Women’s Erotic Autonomy: Feminist and Queer-Feminist Critiques of Monogamy.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 44 (1): 205–31.
Lewis, Sophie. 2017. “Defending Intimacy against What? Limits of Antisurrogacy Feminisms.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 43 (1): 97–125.
Mardorossian, Carine M. 2002. “Toward a New Feminist Theory of Rape.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 27 (3): 743–75.
Petchesky, Rosalind Pollack. “Reproductive Freedom: Beyond “A Woman’s Right to Choose.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 5, no. 4 (1980): 661-685.
Rich, Adrienne. “Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 5, no. 4 (1980): 631-660.
Shulman, Alix Kates. “Sex and power: Sexual bases of radical feminism.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 5, no. 4 (1980): 590-604.
Snitow, Ann Barr. “The front line: Notes on sex in novels by women, 1969-1979.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 5, no. 4 (1980): 702-718.
Taylor, Verta, and Leila J. Rupp. 1993. “Women’s Culture and Lesbian Feminist Activism: A Reconsideration of Cultural Feminism.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 19 (1): 32–61.
Walters, Suzanna Danuta. 1996. “From Here to Queer: Radical Feminism, Postmodernism, and the Lesbian Menace (Or, Why Can’t a Woman Be More like a Fag?).” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 21 (4): 830–69.
Weston, Kathleen M., and Lisa B. Rofel. 1984. “Sexuality, Class, and Conflict in a Lesbian Workplace.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 9 (4): 623–46.
Zita, Jacquelyn N. “Historical amnesia and the lesbian continuum.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 7, no. 1 (1981): 172-187.
Books
Alcoff, Linda. “Rape and Resistance : Understanding the Complexities of Sexual Violation.” Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2018.
Brownmiller, Susan. “Against our will: Men, women, and rape.” Ballantine Books, 1993.
Daly, Mary. “Gyn/ecology: The metaethics of radical feminism.” Beacon Press, 2016.
Daly, Mary. “Pure Lust : Elemental Feminist Philosophy.” Boston: Beacon Press, 1984.
Dworkin, Andrea. “Woman hating.” New York: Dutton, 1974.
Dworkin, Andrea. “Pornography : Men Possessing Women.” Perigee Books, 1981.
Dworkin, Andrea. “Our Blood.” TarcherPerigree, 1981.
Dworkin, Andrea. “Right-wing women: The politics of domesticated females.” Women’s Press, 1983.
Firestone, Shulamith. “The dialectic of sex: The case for feminist revolution.” New York: William Morrow & Co., 1970.
Ferguson, Ann. “Blood at the root: Motherhood, sexuality and male dominance.” 1989.
Ferguson, Ann. “Sexual Democracy: Women, Oppression, and Revolution.” Westview. 1991.
Griffin, Susan. “Pornography and silence: Culture’s revenge against nature.” New York, 1981.
Griffin, Susan. “Rape: The politics of consciousness.” Open Road Media, 2015.
Joyce Antler. “Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices From the Women’s Liberation Movement.” New York: NYU Press, 2018.
Linden, Robin R. and Darlene R. Pagano, Diana E.H. Russell, and Susan Leigh Star, eds.. “Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis.” 1982.
Lorde, Audre. “I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing across Sexualities. 1st ed.,” Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1985.
MacKinnon, Catharine A. “Are Women Human? : and Other International Dialogues.” Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
MacKinnon, Catharine A. “Feminism Unmodified : Discourses on Life and Law.” Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1987.
MacKinnon, Catharine A. “Toward a feminist theory of the state.” Harvard University Press, 1989.
MacKinnon, Catharine A. “Only Words.” Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1993.
MacKinnon, Catharine A. “Women’s lives, men’s laws.” Harvard University Press, 2007.
Millett, Kate. “Kate. Sexual Politics.” Columbia University Press, 2016.
Rich, Adrienne. “Of woman born: Motherhood as experience and institution.” WW Norton & Company, 2021.
Ruddick Sara. “Maternal Thinking : Toward a Politics of Peace; with a New Preface.” Beacon Press.1995.
Stoltenberg, John. “Refusing to be a man: Essays on social justice.” Routledge, 2005.
Wittig, Monique. “The Straight Mind and Other Essays.” Beacon Press, 1992.
Wittig, Monique. 2007. “Les Guerilleres. Translated by David Le Vay. First Edition.” University of Illinois Press.
Manifestos
Redstockings. “Redstockings Manifesto.” July 7, 1969.
Solanas, Valerie. “SCUM manifesto.” Verso, 2004.
Weiss, Penny A., and Megan Brueske, eds. “Feminist Manifestos: A Global Documentary Reader.” New York University Press.2018.
Radicalesbians. “The Woman-Identified Woman.” Duke Digital Collections. 1970.
Baxandall, Rosalyn, and Linda Gordon “Dear sisters: Dispatches from the women’s liberation movement.” Basic Books, 2000.
Firestone, Shulamith “Notes from the Second Year.” Duke Digital Collection. 1970.
Articles
Nazli Akhtari. “Performance as Feminist Historiography: An Interview with Gita Hashemi on Zandokht Shirazi and Early Radical Feminism in Iran.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 21 no. 2 (2021): 277-286.
Brison, Susan J. “Can We End the Feminist ‘Sex Wars’ Now? Comments on Linda Martín Alcoff, Rape and Resistance: Understanding the Complexities of Sexual Violation.” Philosophical Studies 177, no. 2 (2019): 303–9. doi:10.1007/s11098-019-01392-z.
Davis, Angela. “Joan Little: The dialectics of rape.” Ms, no. 2: 37-40, 1975.
Mackay, Finn. “Still Too Hot To Handle? Firebrand Radical Feminism.” Hypatia 37, no. 1 (2022): 216–20. doi:10.1017/hyp.2021.74.
Connell, Noreen, and Cassandra Wilson. “Rape: The first sourcebook for women by New York radical feminists.” New York: The New American Library (1974): 27-28.
Hebert, L. Camille. “How Sexual Harassment Law Failed Its Feminist Roots.” Geo. J. Gender & L. 22 (2020): 57.
Debra Ratterman. “Radical Thought for Women: A National Conference.” Off Our Backs 17 no. 7 (July 1987): 16-19.
Carol Anne Douglas and Alice Henry. “Towards a Politics of Sexuality.” Off Our Backs 12, no. 6 (June 1982): 2-4, 20-21.
Brown, Betsy. “The Art of the Impossible: Some Thoughts on Lesbian Separatist Strategy.” Off Our Backs 25, no. 11 (1995): 8-10.
Kathleen Berry. “Female Sexual Slavery: Understanding the International Dimensions of Women’s Oppression.” Human Rights Quarterly 3 no. 2 (1981): 44-52.
Cohen, Sascha. “The Book That Changed The Way We Talk about Rape.” Time. Time, October 7, 2015.
Gingold, J. “The truth about battered wives.” Ms. 5, no. 2: 51-54, 1976.
Voichita Nachescu. “Radical Feminism and the Nation: History and Space in the Political Imagination of Second-Wave Feminism.” Journal for the Study of Radicalism 3 no. 1 (Spring 2009): 29-59. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41887617
Jones, Beverly, and Judith Brown. “Toward a female liberation movement.” In Radical feminism: A documentary reader (2000): 17-56.
Atkinson, Ti-Grace. “Radical feminism.” Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader (2000): 82-89.
Lorde, Audre. “Age, race, class, and sex: Women redefining difference.” Cultural Politics 11 (1997): 374-380
___ “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.” In Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Berkeley: Crossing Press, 1984.
MacKinnon, Catharine. “Rape: On coercion and consent.” Writing on the body: Female embodiment and feminist theory (1997): 42-58.
MacKinnon, Catherine A. “Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: Pleasure Under Patriarchy.” Ethics 99, no. 2 (1989): 314–46. doi:10.1086/293068.
MacKinnon, Catharine A. “Pornography as Trafficking.” Michigan Journal of International Law 26, no. 4 (2005): 993–.
MacKinnon, Catharine A. “Rape Redefined.” Harvard Law & Policy Review 10, no. 2 (2016): 431–.
Rubin, Gayle. “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex” in Rayna Reiter, ed., Toward an Anthropology of Women. pp. 157-210.
Rubin, Gayle. “Thinking sex: Notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality.” Social Perspectives in Lesbian and Gay Studies; A reader. 1984. pp. 100-133
Videos
ContraPoints. “Gender Critical.” YouTube, March 30, 2019.
Angela Davis “Frameworks For Radical Feminism.” YouTube, June 27, 2019.
Finn Mackey. “Dr Finn Mackay discusses feminist theory, feminist activism and radical feminist theory.” YouTube, December 17, 2021.
Slutist NYC. “Jex Blackmore: Satanic Feminism As Activism.” YouTube, October 31, 2016.
Brut America. “W.I.T.C.H, the Feminist Group That Cursed Wall Street on Halloween.” YouTube, January 30, 2021.
The Laura Flanders Show. “Freedom for Women Requires Abolition Feminism: Suzanne Pharr & Beth Richie.” YouTube. January 23, 2022.