Recommended Reading

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NON-FICTION
How The Pro-Choice Movement Saved America
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

FICTION
The Terrorists of Irustan
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