Episode 3: Ursula LeGuin’s “She Unnames Them”

LeGuin’s short story “She Unnames Them” reimagines the Genesis creation stories from a feminist point of view, focusing on the world-shaping power of language.

Carter, Angela. Heroes and Villains. Penguin Books, 1969.

De Pizan, Christine. Book of the City of Ladies. Penguin Classics.

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Original Classic Edition.

Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation.  Trans. and Ed. by L.W. King. FQ Classics.

Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings. Random House, 1988.

Gafney, Wilda. Womanist Midrash. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2017.

Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. A Revised Edition of the Stambaugh Translation. Albany: SUNY Press, 2010. 

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. Vintage International.

Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Penguin Classics. 

LeGuin, Ursula. “She Unnames Them.” The New Yorker 21 January 1985.

Muhammad, Elijah. Message to the Black Man in America. Secretarius Memps Publications, 2006.

Rushin, Kate. “To Be Continued.” Quoted in Chanequa Walker-Barnes, I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation.” Eerdmans, 2019.

Stein, Gertrude. Ida. New York: Random House, 1941.

Truth, Sojourner. “Ain’t I a Woman?” Penguin Books, Great Ideas.

Williams, Duane. Language and Being: Heidegger’s Linguistics. Bloomsbury: 2017.

Wollstonecraft, Mary. Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Oxford World Classics.

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. Lion’s Gate Classics.

X, Malcolm. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley. Ballantine Books.