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Feminist Literature Book List

The woman who owns the book warehouse has finally begun to take a liking to me. She has yet to offer me an actual copy of any of her so highly esteemed essays, but I feel as if she almost did me one better.

She lent me her book list of just about every piece of feminist literature worth making note of since the 15th century. I feel if I complete this reading list by the beginning of summer that  I could maybe be audacious enough to think that I could work there amongst all the other women professors. Maybe?

I'm overwhelmed with excitement and today I'm going to begin my task of actually acquiring these books. It's going to be a long process, but highly rewarding I'm sure.

Anyway, for those of you who enjoy a good book on feminism, here is a list of about one hundred or more suggestions. Wish me luck and enjoy!

15th century

• The Book of the City of Ladies, Christine de Pisan (ca. 1405)
• The Treasure of the City of Ladies, Christine de Pisan (ca. 1405)
• The Tale of Joan of Arc, Christine de Pisan (1429)

 

16th century

• Her Protection for Women, Jane Anger (1589)

 

17th century

• The Adventure of the Black Lady, Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

 

1791

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft
• Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, Olympe de Gouges (born Marie Gouze)

 

1798

• Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft

 

1832

• Indiana, George Sand
• Valentine, George Sand

 

1833

• Lélia, George Sand

 

1834

• Jacques, George Sand

 

1845

• Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Margaret Fuller

 

1861

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs

 

1869

• The Woman with Prospects, Concepción Arenal (Seville, Spain)

1872

• The Adventures of a Woman in Search of her Rights, Florence Claxton

 

1879

• A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen

 
1880–81

• Mizora, Mary Lane

 

1883

• Augusta Bender (Smith College located in Northampton, Massachusetts, is today the largest women's college in the United States, 1891):
  • Die Frauenfrage in Deutschland 1883 - Gesammelte Werke. Odenwälder, Buchen. ca. 360 S. ISBN
  • Ein deutsches Mädchen in Amerika Novelle 1893 engl. / 1901 germ.

• The Woman in her House, Concepción Arenal (Madrid, Spain)

 

1886

• Cathy the Caryatid (Polish: Kaśka Kariatyda), novel by Gabriela Zapolska

 

 1889

• New Amazonia, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

 

1893

• The New Woman, Bolesław Prus
• Unveiling a Parallel, Alice Ilgenfritz Jones & Ella Merchant

 

1899

• The Awakening, Kate Chopin

 

1905

• The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton

 

1929

• A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf

 

1938

• Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf

 

1949

• The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir

 

1963

• The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, Penguin Books

 

1967

• The Radical Women Manifesto: Theory, Program and Structure

 

1970

• The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer
• Sexual Politics, Kate Millett
• The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, Shulamith Firestone
• Morgan, Robin, ed. Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, 1970.

 

1971

• Woman's Estate, Juliet Mitchell

 

1973

• Beyond God the Father, Mary Daly

 

1974

• "Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?", Sherry B. Ortner

 

1975

• “Toward a Phenomenology of Feminist Consciousness,” Sandra Bartky
• Against Our Will, Susan Brownmiller
• The Female Imagination, Patricia Meyer Spacks
• "The Traffic of Women," Gayle Rubin
• The Female Man, Joanna Russ

 

1976

• Lover, Bertha Harris
• Literary Women, Ellen Moers
• Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, Michele Wallace
• Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, Adrienne Rich
• When God Was a Woman, Merlin Stone

 

1977

• A Literature of Their Own, Elaine Showalter

 

1979

• The Madwoman in the Attic, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
• The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
• Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, Susan Griffin
• Berk, Sarah Fenstermaker, ed. Women and Household Labor, Sage

 

1981

• Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism, bell hooks
• Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua. "This bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color"

 

1982

• In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan

 

1983

• Women, Race, and Class, Angela Davis
• The Politics of Reality, Marilyn Frye (especially "Oppression")
• Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Gloria Steinem
• Spender, Dale (ed.) Feminist theorists: Three centuries of key women thinkers, Pantheon 1983, ISBN 0-394-53438-7
• How to Suppress Women's Writing, Joanna Russ

 

1984

• Pure Lust, Mary Daly
• Sister/Outsider, Audre Lorde
• Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, bell hooks, ISBN 0-89608-614-3

 

1985

• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
• French, Marilyn. "Beyond Power"; "War Against Women"; "From Eve to Dawn", a 3-volume history of women

 

1986

• Feminist Studies, Critical Studies, Teresa de Lauretis
• Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Select Prose (1979-1985), Adrienne Rich (especially "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence")

 

1987

• Borderlands, Gloria Anzaldúa
• Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin

 

1988

• Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value, Sarah Lucia Hoagland

 

1989

• A Vindication of The Rights of Whores, Gail Pheterson(ed.)
• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Thinking Gender), Judith Butler
• Gossett, Hattie. "Presenting sister noblues"

 

1990

• Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins
• Echols, Alice. "Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975", University of Minnesota Press 1990

 

1991

• Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Susan Faludi
• Sexual/Textual Politics, Toril Moi
• The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf

 

1992

• Revolution From Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Gloria Steinem
• Women Who Run With the Wolves : Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• Race, Class and Gender in the U.S., Paula Rothenberg
• Tavris, Carol. "The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Opposite Sex, or the Inferior Sex". Simon and Schuster, 1992. ISBN 0-671-66274-0
• Faludi, Susan. "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women". 1992 (ISBN 0-385-42507-4)

 

1993

• Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Susan Bordo
• Fire With Fire : The New Female Power And How It Will Change the 21st Century, Naomi Wolf

 

1994

• Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein
• Schneir, Miriam. "Feminism : The Essential Historical Writings", New York: Vintage 1994
• Lerner, Gerda. "The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy", Oxford University Press 1994

 

1995

• Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation, ed. Barbara Findlen
• To Be Real, ed. Rebecca Walker
• Wertheim, Margaret. "Pythagoras' Trousers - God, Physics, and the Gender Wars", W.W. Norton & Co. (1995, 1997)

 

1996

• Sommers, Christina Hoff. "Who Stole Feminism? - How women have betrayed women" (1996) (ISBN 0-684-80156-6)
• Silvers, Anita and Sterling Harwood, "Womb for Rent: Surrogate Motherhood and the Case of Baby M," in Sterling Harwood, ed., Business as Ethical and Business as Usual (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1996), pp. 190-193.

 

1997

• The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, Oyeronke Oyewumi
• Mitchell, Julie and Ann Oakley (eds.). Who's Afraid of Feminism?: Seeing Through the Backlash, New Press, 1997. ISBN 1-56584-385-1
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1998

• Upanibesh, Sarojini Sahoo - the first attempt in the literature of the Oriya language of India to focus on sexuality as a part of social revolt by a woman.
• Jacobson, Joyce P. "The Economics of Gender" 1998. (ISBN 0-631-20726-0)

 

1999

• Pratibandi, Sarojini Sahoo ISBN NO :81-7411-253-7 - the novel has its own credibility for the frankness of the writer to deals with the sensitive matters either it may be in politics or in sexuality in Indian (Oriya) literature .
• Stiffed : The Betrayal of the American Man, Susan Faludi
• the whole woman, Germaine Greer

 

2000

• Feminism Is For Everybody : Passionate Politics, bell hooks
• ManifestA : young women, feminism, and the future, Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
• Slut! : Growing Up Female With A Bad Reputation, Leora Tanenbaum
• Hill Collins, Patricia, "Black Feminist Thought. Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment", Second Edition, Routledge 2000

2002

• Pink Think : Becoming A Woman In Many Uneasy Lessons, Lynn Peril

 

2004

• Not My Mother's Sister: Generational Conflict and Third-Wave Feminism, Astrid Henry

2005

• Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, Ariel Levy
• Walters, Margaret. "Feminism: A very short introduction". Oxford 2005 (ISBN 0-19-280510-X)
• Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide, Maureen Dowd

 

2006

• Sarojini Sahoo- The Dark Abode ( Gambhiri Ghara in Oriya and Mithya Gerosthali in Bengali ) , (ISBN NO :ISBN No :984 404 287-9) - It is all about the providence of a woman in India, it also portrays a story how a perverted man becomes slowly as a perfect man, it describes the relation between the ‘state’ and the ‘individual’ and comes in a conclusion that ‘the state’ represents the mood and wish of a ruler and hence ‘the state’ is a form of ‘an individual’.The novel has been translated in to Bangla and published from Bangladesh in 2007.

• Stripped: Inside The Lives of Exotic Dancers, Bernadette Barton
• del Giorgio, J.F., The Oldest Europeans:Who are we? Where do we come from? What made European women different?.A.J.Place 2006 (ISBN 980-6898-00-1)

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