In May 2011, two friends were talking about their need to share all the fantastic feminist writing they had read. ‘Why not have a book club?’ one suggested. Fast forward to now and we have celebrated a year of Feminist Book Club and feminist discussion. We have a mailing list, a very active facebook group and the natural move forward is creating a blog and engaging in activism.
The reading list that inspired us:
The Beauty Myth
Living Dolls
The Myth of Mars and Venus
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Women’s Room
Doing the Dirty Work
One Dimensional Woman
Fat is a Feminist Issue
The Dialetic of Sex
A Woman’s history of the World
Female Chauvinist Pigs
We will be posting articles of the books we read from September 2012 and posting discussion questions.
We would love it if more people set up their own Feminist Book Clubs across the UK, so please do!
You can find us here:
The Feminist Book Club 
Hi there, I have written a novel with a pro feminist message and would really like a review, how can I send you a copy and convince you to read it? 🙂
is this site defunct now? what else are you all up to?
My name is Marlene Wagman-Geller and I am contacting you in the hope you will consider writing a review of my fourth book: Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World’s Famous and Infamous. (Sourcebooks/2015)
The premise of the volume is to profile forty women whose lives have been regulated to a mere historic footnote as they were lost in the lengthy shadow cast by their alpha male spouses. A sampling of the historic ladies profiled: from literature, Mrs. Oscar Wilde, from film, Mrs. Alfred Hitchcock, from music, Mrs. Robin Gibb, from politics, Mrs. Mahatma Gandhi.
The opening quotation by Virginia Woolf embodies its concept, “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” It is my hope that my book will take these remarkable women from under the cloak of anonymity, to make the slogan “Behind every great man” more than merely a girl-power chant.
A sample chapter, on Mrs. Nelson Mandela, can be found on: http://womensenews.org/story/our-history/150424/winne-mandela-controversial-mother-the-nation
Warmest wishes,
Marlene Wagman-Geller