/lit/ - Literature

>>11496704
>not looking into chapman's homer
pfffttt...... you're never gonna make it, squiddo

Oh? There are a ton of good books by female authors, let's see what she recommends:
>contemporary, self-indulgent trash memoir-novel
>a scientific defense for vaccination (?!)
>a history of the "underground feminist abortion service"
>trash contemporary poetry from a "queer Cubanx-American poet and K-12 educator from the Bronx"
>a contemporary novel about a drug-addled slut (no really, that's a self-description!)
>a contemporary novel about lesbians who draw cartoons

Such wasted potential! If you want women to read books written by women, how about these:
>Near to the Wild Heart, Clarice Lispector — an erotic, batshit bildungsroman of a young girl with a daddy complex
>the poems of Anna Akhmatova — one of mother Russia's premier poets, a blaze of wit and longing
>Mathilda, Mary Shelley — yes, another book about father-daughter incest, brought to you by John Milton's greatest fan
>Kristin Lavransdatter — an erotic medieval epic written by a Nobel Prize winner (back when they meant something)
>The Pillow Book, Sei Shonagon — a 10th century courtier's diary desu senpai
Not to mention the fantastic, scalding fiction done by Flin-Flan and Carson McCullers, the precise insights of Em-Dash Dickinson, a whole history of religious mystics (Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila, etc.), the Imagists, female classicists, and so much more! For someone who champions diversity, that woman's list is dull, uninspired, lazy, and relatively homogenous.

>>10640437
This anon is the voice of common sense. I don't understand how one can reject science as a path to the knowledge of things (via observational, experimental, and mathematical methods) and dismiss it as ideology. Science does not preclude philosophy by any means.

>>10640877
>likes linguistics
>hasn't read this one treatise by some pinko pop-intellectual
Wow, you skewered him. Out of idle curiosity, have you read the works of:
>the elder von Humboldt
>Anscombe and Geach, Wittgenstein
>John Locke
>Husserl, Merleau-Ponty
>Heidegger and Kierkegaard (specifically, Concluding Unscientific Postscripts)
>Kripke
If not, then please don't bother bruising your fingers in reply.

Who are some of the best female authors, and what are some of the best books written by women?

In preparation for the upcoming Women's History Month, my library has tasked me with collating works by female authors. I want to dig deep here, keeping it as patrish as possible while giving a voice to commonly overlooked writers.

My personal favorites:
>Flin-Flan O'Connor
>Em-dash Dickinson
>George Eliot

>>10395531
>>10395544
hah, best ones ITT