Feminism books Feminism books A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published in 1929, it was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in 1928. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Room of One's Own"
A Vindication of the Rights of Men was a book written by Mary Wollstonecraft in 1790. Its main topic was that women didn't have as many rights or credit as men. Wollstonecraft wrote this famous novel with noted passion. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Vindication of the Rights of Men"
History of Woman Suffrage was produced by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper in six volumes from 1887 to 1922. It was a history of the suffrage movement, primarily in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of Woman Suffrage"
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is book that was published in 1861 by Harriet Jacobs, using the nom de plume "Linda Brent". It is considered a work of feminist literature. While on one level it chronicles the experiences of Harriet Jacobs as a slave, and the various humiliations she had to endure in that unhappy state, it also deals with the particular tortures visited on women at her station. Often in the book, she will point to a particular punishment that a male slave will endure at the hands of slave holders, and comment that, although she finds the punishment brutal in the extreme, it cannot compare to the abuse that a young woman must face while still on the cusp of girlhood. ...more on Wikipedia about "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
The SCUM Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men) is a misandrous tract written in 1968 by Valerie Solanas - a prostitute, pan-handler, and psychology graduate. She was later convicted for the attempted murder of Andy Warhol. ...more on Wikipedia about "SCUM Manifesto"
Sisterhood is Powerful (ISBN 0394705394), published in 1970, was one of the first widely available anthologies of early Second Wave radical feminist writings. The collection was edited by Robin Morgan, a feminist poet and founding member of New York Radical Women and W.I.T.C.H. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sisterhood is Powerful"
The Beauty Myth is a book by Naomi Wolf, published in 1991. It examines beauty as a demand and as a judgement upon women. Subtitled How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women, Wolf examines the role that modern conceptions of women's beauty impact the spheres of employment, culture, religion, sexuality, eating disorders, and cosmetic surgery. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Beauty Myth"
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The Feminine Mystique is a 1963 book written by Betty Friedan which attacked the popular notion that women during this time could only find fulfillment through childbearing and homemaking. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Feminine Mystique"
The First Sex was a 1971 book by a then-61-year-old librarian, Elizabeth Gould Davis. ...more on Wikipedia about "The First Sex"
The Gate to Women's Country (ISBN 0553280643) is a post-apocalyptic novel by Sheri S. Tepper written in 1988. It describes a world set three hundred years into the future after a catastrophic war which has fractured the United States into at least several nations. The protaganists of the story are located in Women's Country, apparently in the former Pacific Northwest. They have evolved in the direction of Ecotopia, reverting to a sustainable economy based on low-tech local agriculture and the like. They have also evolved into a nominal matriarchy where the women and children live within town walls (so-called women's country) and most of the men live outside the town walls in warrior camps. At the age of five, each young boy is sent off to leave his mother and join his father in the warrior camps. Later, he will be offered a choice: remain with his father and become a life-long warrior or return, ignominously, through the gate back into women's country where he will become a servitor to the women. It is rumoured among the warriors that the returning boys are castrated. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Gate to Women's Country"
The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why An Invented Past Won't Give Women A Future is a 2000 book by Cynthia Eller, a professor at Montclair State University. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory"
The Passion of New Eve is a novel by Angela Carter, first published in 1977. It is a magic realist post-feminist novel, in which the female characters dominate the males. In the novel, Angela Carter satirises America as portrayed in films, and from her own experience of the United States, particularly in terms of gender. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Passion of New Eve"
The Second Sex ( French: Le Deuxième Sexe, 1949) is the best known work of Simone de Beauvoir. It is a work on the treatment of women throughout history and often regarded as a major feminist work. In it, she argues that women throughout history have been defined as the "other" sex, an aberration from the "normal" male sex. It helped lead the way of second-wave feminism. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Second Sex"
Three Guineas is a book-length essay by Virginia Woolf, published in June 1938. Woolf wrote the essay to answer three questions, each from a different society: ...more on Wikipedia about "Three Guineas"
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