Recommended Reading
See www.amazon.com for reviews of the following books.
Cristina PageThe War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women’s Rights and How to Fight Back
Gloria Feldt
Over Our Live Bodies: Preserving Choice in America
Shirley L. Radl
The W Effect: Bush’s War on Women
Laura Flanders (Ed.)
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Susan Faludi
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Naomi Wolf
The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan and Anna Quindlen
The Second Sex
Simone De Beauvoir
The F Word: Feminism in Jeopardy
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century
Alexander Sanger
The Mismeasure of Women: Why Women are not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex or the Opposite Sex
Carol Tavris
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Gloria Steinem
Promiscuitues
Naomi Wolf
Our Looks, Our Lives: Sex, Beauty, Power, and the Need to Be Seen
Nancy Friday
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
Ursula K. Leguin
Do They Hear You When You Cry
Fauziya Kassindja
Manifesta : Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
Introducing Feminism Susan Alice Watkins An illustrated history of feminism of interest to both beginners and long-term feminists.
500 Great Books by Women: A Reader’s Guide Erica Bauermeister, Jesse Larsen, and Holly Smith
Our Bodies Ourselves for the New Century
Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
Speaking Truth to Power
Anita Hill
The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls
Colette Dowling
Rosa Parks: My Story
Rosa Parks
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Louise MarleyIshmael
Daniel Quinn
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. LeGuin
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
The Edible Woman
Margaret Atwood
The Female Man
Joanna Russ
Kindred
Octavia Butler
Black Glass
Karen Joy Fowler
The Cider House Rules
John Irving
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
I Lock My Door Upon Myself
Joyce Carol Oates
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
Velma Wallis
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See
For more great books, see www.feminist.org/arts/linkfaonline.html