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12. On page 359, the author includes an extensive bibliography covering lots of novels and landmark books on feminism and gender – has The Woman in the Photograph inspired you to try any of these? What other books would you recommend for readers who enjoyed this, whether stories of female friendship, novels about Britain in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, or books that explore issues of feminism?

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John Berger: Understanding a Photograph

John Berger: Ways of Seeing

Susan Sontag: On Photography

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We Should All Be Feminists

Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach (eds): Fifty Shades of Feminism

Jessa Crispin: Why I Am Not A Feminist

Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex

Susan Faludi: Backlash

Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique

Roxane Gay: Bad Feminist

Germaine Greer: The Female Eunuch

bell hooks: feminism is for everybody

Audre Lord: Sister Outsider

Kate Millett: Sexual Politics

Susan Mitchell: Icons, Saints and Divas

Robin Morgan (ed): Sisterhood is Powerful

Susie Orbach: Fat is a Feminist Issue

Laurie Penny: Bitch Doctrine

Camille Paglia: Free Women, Free Men

Ann Pettitt: Walking to Greenham

Marsha Rowe (ed): Spare Rib Reader

Rebecca Solnit: Men Explain Things to Me

Victoria Pepe, Rachel Holmes, Amy Annette, Martha Mosse and Alice Stride (eds): I Call Myself A Feminist

Jessica Valenti: Sex Object

Naomi Wolf: The Beauty Myth

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own

Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber

Marilyn French: The Women’s Room

Erica Jong: Fear of Flying

Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar

Alice Walker: The Color Purple

Fay Weldon: Praxis

About the author

Stephanie Butland lives near the sea in the north-east of England. She writes in a studio at the bottom of her garden. Researching her novels has turned her into an occasional performance poet and tango dancer.

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