(additions welcome)
The Feminist Reading Group (FRG) blog features classic feminist articles and book excerpts.
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir (1949)
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (1963)
S.C.U.M. Manifesto, Valerie Solanas (1968)
Sexual Politics, Kate Millett (1969)
The Dialectic of Sex, Shulamith Firestone (1970)
The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer (1971)
Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness, eds. Vivian Gornick and Barbara K. Moran (1971)
Hidden from History: Rediscovering Women in History from the 17th Century to the Present, Sheila Rowbotham (1973)
And Jill Came Tumbling After: Sexism in American Education, ed. Judith Stacey et al. (1974)
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, Susan Brownmiller (1976)
The Women’s Room, Marilyn French (1977)
Going Too Far, Robin Morgan (1978)
Women of Ideas (and what men have done to them), Dale Spender (1982)
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Gloria Steinem (1983)
For the Record: The Making and Meaning of Feminist Knowledge, Dale Spender (1985)
Beyond Power: On Women, Men, and Morals, Marilyn French (1985)
Femininity, Susan Brownmiller (1984)
Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin (1987)
Reflecting Men at Twice their Natural Size, Sally Cline and Dale Spender (1987)
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law, Catharine MacKinnon (1988)
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Susan Faludi (1991)
The War against Women, Marilyn French (1992)
Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation, Mary Daly (1993)
Men are not Cost-effective: Male Crime in America, June Stephenson (1991)
The Stronger Women Get, The More Men Love Football, Mariah Burton Nelson (1995)
The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls, Collette Dowling (2001)
Boys will be Boys: Breaking the Link between Masculinity and Violence, Myriam Miedzian (2002)
Man Made Language, Dale Spender (1990)
You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, Deborah Tannen (2001)
Talking Power: The Politics of Language, Robin Tolmach Lakoff (1992)
The Language War, Robin Tolmach Lakoff (2001)
Full Frontal Feminism, Jessica Valenti (2007)
He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut, Jessica Valenti (2008)
See the entire bibliography in Phyllis Chesler’s Letters to a Young Feminist. (And, actually, any one of the above listed books.)
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Can we add to this list?
Right Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin
Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly
Refusing to be a Man by John Stoltenberg
Loving to Survive by Graham
If I think of more, I’ll be back 🙂
With apologies for some duplication of what’s already been recommended:
First, mostly single-author books:
Audre Lorde, several titles:
Sister Outsider
The Cancer Journals
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: a biomythography
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
A Burst of Light: Essays
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New
Also:
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde, by Alexis De Veaux
Alice Walker, several titles
The Color Purple
In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose
Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987
Angela Davis, Women, Race, and Class
Angela Davis, Women, Culture, and Politics
Gloria Anzaldúa, La frontera/Borderlands: The New Mestiza
Pearl Cleage, Deals With The Devil and Other Reasons to Riot
Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
bell hooks, several titles:
All About Love: New Visions
Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Chrystos, Not Vanishing
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
Jessica Yee, Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism
Lee Maracle, I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism
Awa Thiam, Speak Out, Black Sisters, Speak Out: Feminism and Oppression in Black Africa
Vandana Shiva, Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development
Sheila Jeffreys, several titles:
Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution
Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West,
The Idea of Prostitution
The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade,
Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1800-1930,
Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective
Catharine A. MacKinnon (not Catherine), several titles:
Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination,
Feminism Unmodified,
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State,
Only Words,
Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws,
Are Women Human? And Other International Discourses
Catharine A. MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin:
Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Womens’ Equality
In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings
Andrea Dworkin, several titles:
Woman Hating
Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics
Right-wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females
Pornography: Men Possessing Women
Letters from a War Zone: Writings 1976-1989
Intercourse (any edition other than the 20th anniversary book with anti-Dworkin foreword by Ariel Levy)
Mercy
Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women
Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Militant Feminist
Next, anthologies:
Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging, edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber
But Some of Us are Brave: All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men: Black Women’s Studies, edited by Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scot, and Barbara Smith
Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings, edited by Alma M. Garcia
Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire, edited by Sonia Shah
Homegirls: A Black Feminist Anthology, edited by Barbara Smith
Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture, edited by Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, Jean Barman
Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color, edited by Gloria Anzaldúa
Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, edited by Joyce Green
Pinay Power: Feminist Critical Theory: Theorizing the Filipina/American Experience, edited by Melinda L. de Jesus
The Black Woman: An Anthology, edited by Toni Cade Bambara
Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women, edited by Stanlie James and Abena Busia
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice, by Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross and Elena Gutierrez
Women Writing Resistance: Essays from Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought, edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Also:
Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis, edited by Robin Ruth Linden
Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, edited by Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant
Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality, by Gail Dines, Bob Jensen and Ann Russo
Take Back The Night: Women on Pornography, edited by Laura Lederer
Author
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party.