Anti-TERF Reading List
Information for learning more about TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) and their movement.
Last updated: 9/1/25
Overview
"The Feminist Frontier: On Trans and Feminism" by Sally Hines for Journal of Gender Studies
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"TERF wars: An introduction" by Ruth Pearce, Sonja Erikainen, and Ben Vincent for The Sociological Review
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"Exploring TERFnesses" by Mauro Cabral Grinspan, Ilana Eloit, David Paternotte, and Mieke Verloo for DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies
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History
"TERF Island" by Sophie Lewis for Lux Magazine
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"The ontological woman: A history of deauthentication, dehumanization, and violence" by Cristan Williams for The Sociological Review
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"From TERF to gender critical: A telling genealogy?" by Claire Thurlow for Sexualities
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Ideology, Rhetoric, and Politics
"TERF by Any Other Name: The Constitutive Rhetoric of Gender-Critical Feminism" by Ben Bishop for Studies in Communication
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"‘Gender critical’ feminism as biopolitical project" by Fran Amery for Sexualities
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"Is 'Gender Ideology' Western Colonialism?: Anti-gender Rhetoric and the Misappropriation of Postcolonial Language" by Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang for Transgender Studies Quarterly
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"Autogynephilia: A scientific review, feminist analysis, and alternative ‘embodiment fantasies’ model" by Julia Serano for The Sociological Review
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Confluences with the Right
"TERFs, Gender-Critical Movements, and Postfascist Feminisms" by Serena Bassi and Greta LaFleur for Transgender Studies Quarterly
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"Unpacking 'Gender Ideology' and the Global Right’s Antigender Countermovement" by Elizabeth S. Corredor for Signs
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Prominent TERF Figures
“Revisiting the legacy: the historical influence of Mary Daly, Janice Raymond, and Shelia Jeffreys on ‘gender-critical’ feminism” by Helen Clarke for Women’s History Review
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"Christine Delphy, an anti-essentialist TERF: Materialist feminism and the affective legacies of the MLF" by Katherine Costello for DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies
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TERFism by Country
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More on the "Anti-Gender" Movement
“Neo-Fascism's 'Gender Ideology' & Queer/Lesbian Resistance” edited by Wen Liu, Laurie Essig, Ella Ben Hagai, & Munia Bhaumik for Journal of Lesbian Studies
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"Gender and the Rise of the Global Right" edited by Suzanna Danuta Walters for Signs
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