The Bell's Jars.

Finnegans Wake

>>2080414
I assume you mean the Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath? Why?

Mein Kampf.

Does it need to be fiction?

If not, read Cunt, because then you'll get to say 'cunt' a bunch of times.

>>2080421
actually it should probably not be fiction, and no.

>>2080422
A Room For One's Own

>It has to do with gender and society
Teacher speak for "write a report on feminism"

>>2080422
Why not? It's a decent book.

Anyway, if you want something more srs, you could take a look at something by Havelock Ellis.

>>2080426
Exactly. She is a total bitch, and goes on rants about how gender equality doesn't exist in America.

>>2080428
The only gender equality feminists want is being able to eat their mates like that spider does.

>>2080431
It's true. I want to argue with her and shut her the fuck up, but I also want a good grade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryx_and_Crake

Post-apocalypse, sci-fi, dystopian, Margaret Atwood writes about a scientist who creates polyandrous post-humans and also kills all normal humans (except 1)

>>2080441
Sounds interesting, but not related.

If you want something short, there's always The Yellow Wallpaper. "baby blues" depression, controlling male doctor authority figure that just happens to be her husband, house arrest and decent into insanity. What's not to love.

On the other hand, anything by Margaret Atwood, as the other poster mentioned, will get you places with the teach.

>>2080427
oh and i mentioned Havelock Ellis because his writings aren't centered around women and feminism, they're centered around the study of sex, homosexuality, transgenderism, etc. So if you use him you can write about men for a change of pace. "Sexual Inversion" for example is just a bunch of case studies of homosexual and transgendered people--i dont remember if he includes women--and it addresses some of his and other peoples' opinions about their role in society. The text is old, though, i dunno if you wanted something contemporary

>>2080444
It has the themes society (extrapolating from today's online world) and it is gender-themed (especially the need for polyandrous post-humans)

If you can't see this then I feel sorry for the teacher who has to read your unimaginative drivel.

American Psycho

>>2080450
Thanks, I will ask my teacher if I can use it ( she has to approve it)

>>2080428
>rants about how gender equality doesn't exist in America

It largely doesn't exist. Do gender studies, politics or social services at a high level and you'll find case study after case study after case study (x100) showing this. I agree that some people are true bitches about it and speak like all males (or most people) are intentionally only out to keep women down and I don't believe that's the case. But, intentionally or not, this is happening in shocking ways for 2011.

>>2080431
>gender equality feminists want is

The mistake people make is thinking there is one body of feminism and there isn't. Just as people of one religion will have very different ideas about what's true to their religion or not, or atheists having different ideas about what atheism must make someone think about other things or not, feminism is also a wide spectrum. Radical feminism is one part of it.

On top of that, there are people that are pushing for liberation, rather than equality (like Germaine Greer). The idea goes that, since men have their own social prisons and conventions that are forced upon them by society (and we do have that), women being equal to men would simply mean sitting in a prison that's no better or worse than the men's. Liberation, on the other hand, is the attempt to simply break the prison.

I think it's a good idea for everyone to work at liberation for all people, regardless of gender but some people don't see it that way. They prefer to focus on helping their own gender and believe that someone of the opposite gender should help that one.

>>2080470
*I meant to say, "It largely DOES exist". Sorry*

Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker; it is one of the few universally awesome works of feminist literature.

>>2080441

Handmaid's tale might be the better one if the report's about gender.

>>2080470
irrational woman spotted.
I don't even know what you are talking about. Whats the point of arguing in commiefeminist terms?

>>2080546
>irrational woman spotted.

Fail. I'm a man (I even said "we" about men, which should have tipped you off). You also must be a troll to link anything except communism with communism.

>>2080601
I didn't read your wall of text. It's meaningless, complaining about things which don't exist.
Made up a fictional concept, and then complain when reality doesn't match your pre-conceptions!

And so year 1 of college indoctrination begins. Enjoy your stay OP.

>>2080604
>didn't read
>derides unread thing as meaningless
>complains about preconceptions

The Dialectic of Sex, by Shulamith Firestone.

It's a fascinating historical artifact about how political feminism was willing to get in the 1970s, basically. I was going to say it's like the Communist Manifesto of feminism, or wants to be, but honestly he closest thing I can compare it to is reading Godwin's "Political Justice"----there's a kind of unimpeachable logic, and a justice to its cause, but a weird lack of irony. (It rather infamously makes sweeping statements like "men can't love".) In other words: it's the kind of feminist book that you cannot imagine Tina Fey reading, but it's the kind of feminist book that allows you to understand where people like Andrea Dworkin were coming from. And how feminism itself emerged from the anti-Vietnam left of the late 60s as something far more radicalized and engagé, which quickly spent its energy as the movement achieved some real practical goals (even as it failed to pass the Equal Rights Amendment around the time Reagan took office).

Otherwise I would suggest "Against Our Will" by Susan Brownmiller, which is the standard feminist book about rape. And which---despite those troll-posts about the feminist attitude toward rape (i.e., seeing it everywhere, accusing every man of it)----still makes for sobering and somber reading.

>>2080679
I'll check them out, thanks!