Thank you all for the warm welcome, much appreciated!
Sorry to barge in like that at a time where, ugh, the current news is kinda ruining the mood, I'm sorry for that D:
I definitely would recommend pretty much all of them in a way? Sadly they're all written in French by French authors, and I'm not sure they have been translated in English (or in any other language for that matter), but here goes:
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"Beauté Fatale" by Mona Chollet, is a well documented essay about how alienating feminine beauty standards are to women, and gets in depths about its different aspects, especially in relation to French culture.
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"Gros n'est pas un Gros Mot" by Marx & Perez-Bello is a short essay about what it means, what it feels like, what it implies to be fat in French society, moreso to be a fat women, and what that oppression looks like. It's spot-on and straight-to-the-point, but is not as much as a scholar essay as I wanted it to be. Still worth the read though, especially if you have no idea about it feels like to endure fatphobia in general.
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"Un Féminisme Décolonial" by Françoise Vergès is also a short essay about the history of feminism of WOC in France, and how it intersects with racial issues, as well as issues of class and capitalism. It was a pretty good read, one that shows how different kinds of oppression connect to one another and feed one another, how layered it all is. I think it's pretty interesting and eye-opening read if you're white as a toilet like me.
And the one I'm currently reading:
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"Une culture du viol à la Française" by Valérie Rey-Robert, which so far seems to be a very well-written, highly-documented and annotated essay about what rape culture looks like in France, especially touching up on our very special culture of romance and seducing, which deserves to be criticized and talked about at length through a feminist lens. I'm only 60 pages in, but so far, I'm very amazed by all the care and research that went onto this one.
I also have a long pile of similar books to read, I already went through The Second Sex's first volume (which was A TALL TASK) and need to get onto the 2nd volume when I'll be finished with what I have here. The saddest thing I thought of while reading the 1st volume, was how current and relatable it was. Such book written in 1949 felt like it could have been published in 2019, and that seriously bummed me out. Anyway ugh, yeah, that's why I needed a bit of a break before starting the 2nd volume. Yay to being a woman!
Anyway, I need that book about Ancient Egyptian Queens now, I feel like it'd be right up my alley! (another book on my pile, at this point, who'll notice anyway?)