Introduction to Women’s Studies
Feminism Reading List
1 1. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
2. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
3. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
4. bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody and Ain't I a Woman?
5. Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
6. Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy
7. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble
8. Estelle Freedman, No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
9. Ann Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
10. Adrienne Rich, Of Mother Born
11. Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
12. Guerrilla Girls, The Guerrilla Girls' Companion to the History of Western Art
13. Dorothy Allison, Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature and Bastard out of Carolina (novel)
14. Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook
15. Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors and Stone Butch Blues (novel)
16. Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity
17. Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
18. Naomi Wolf, Promiscuities: A Secret History of Female Desire
19. Susan Bordo and Leslie Haywood, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
20. Angela Davis, Women, Race, and Class
21. Adrienne Rich, Bread, Blood and Poetry and Of Woman Born 22. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (novel)
23. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland (novel)
24. Marge Piercy, Woman at the Edge of Time (novel)2. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
3. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
4. bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody and Ain't I a Woman?
5. Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
6. Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy
7. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble
8. Estelle Freedman, No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
9. Ann Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
10. Adrienne Rich, Of Mother Born
11. Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
12. Guerrilla Girls, The Guerrilla Girls' Companion to the History of Western Art
13. Dorothy Allison, Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature and Bastard out of Carolina (novel)
14. Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook
15. Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors and Stone Butch Blues (novel)
16. Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity
17. Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
18. Naomi Wolf, Promiscuities: A Secret History of Female Desire
19. Susan Bordo and Leslie Haywood, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
20. Angela Davis, Women, Race, and Class
21. Adrienne Rich, Bread, Blood and Poetry and Of Woman Born 22. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (novel)
23. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland (novel)
25. Carole S Vance, ed. Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality
26. D. Siegel, Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
Books on/for young feminists
- Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism
- Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman, ed. 2002. Colonize This: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism.
- Barbara Findlen, ed. Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation.
- Jennifer Baumgardner, ed. Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future
- Susannah Heschel, ed. Yentl's Revenge: Next Wave of Jewish Feminism
- Daisy Hernandez, ed. Colonize This: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
- Sharlene Azam, ed. Rebel, Rogue, Mischievous Babe: Stories about Being a Powerful Girl
- Karen Green, ed. A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution
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