Contemporary popular versions of feminist debate today include:-
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We should all be feminists (Fourth Estate, 2014)
Laura Bates Everyday sexism (Simon and Schuster, 2015) http://www.everydaysexism.com/
Sheryl Sandberg Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (W H Allen, 2013) www.leanin.org
Caitlin Moran How to be a Woman (Ebury Press, 2012)
Lisa Appignanesi, Susie Orbach (ed) Fifty Shades of Feminism (Virago, 2013)
Rebecca Solnit Men Explain Things To Me (2012)
Nina Power One Dimensional Woman (Zero Books, 2009)
Selected List of classic books in Feminist Politics – which everyone interested in feminism should read :-
(N.B. these books largely represent debates in and from USA/Anglophone Europe. They have many different editions and have been published in many languages, many are also available in full or part online)
Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
Mathilda Joselyn Gage Women, Church and State (1893)
Alexandra Kollontai Women Workers Struggle For Their Rights (1919)
Ray Strachey The Cause: A Short History of the Women’s Movement in Britain (1928)
Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938)
Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex (1949)
Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Juliet Mitchell Women: the longest revolution (1966)
Valerie Solanas The Scum Manifesto (1968, self-published, 1967)
Mary Ellman Thinking about Women (1968)
Monique Wittig Les Guérillères (1969)
Shulamith Firestone The Dialectic of Sex: The case for Feminist Revolution (1970)
Robin Morgan Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement (1970)
Susan Brownmiller Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (1971)
Boston Women’s Health Book Collective Our Bodies, Ourselves: a book by and for women (1971)
Kate Millett Sexual Politics (1971)
Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch (1970/1971)
Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James Women and the Subversion of the Community (1972)
Sheila Rowbotham Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World (1973)
Andrea Dworkin Woman Hating (1974)
Juliet Mitchell Psychoanalysis and Feminism (1975)
Adrienne Rich Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1976)
Luce Irigaray Ce Sexe qui n’est pas un / This Sex which is not One (1977, English 1985)
Mary Daly Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (1978)
Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary (French, 1976, English, 1979)
Michele Barrett Women’s Oppression Today: Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis (1980)
Adrienne Rich Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980)
Angela Davis Women, Race, Class (1981)
bell hooks Ain’t I a Woman? (1981)
Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa This Bridge Called My Back: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1981)
Alice Walker In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens and other essays (1983)
Joanna Russ How To Suppress Women’s Writing (1983)
Alison Jaggar Feminist Politics and Human Nature (1983)
Audre Lorde Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (1984)
Nawal El Saadawi The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World (1984)
Toril Moi Sexual/Textual Politics (1985)
Susan Faludi Backlash: the Undeclared War against American Women (1987)
Lynne Segal Is the future female? : troubled thoughts on contemporary feminism (1987)
Gloria Anzaldua Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)
Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth (1990)
Iris Marion Young Justice and the politics of difference (1990)
Judith Butler Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990)
Patricia Hill Collins Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1990)
Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott (ed) Feminists Theorize the Political (1992)
Elizabeth Grosz Volatile Bodies.Toward a Corporeal Feminism (1994)
Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler and Drucilla Cornell, Nancy Fraser Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange (1995)
Radha Kumar The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India 1800-1990 (1997)
Silvia Federici Caliban And The Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (1998)
Chela Sandoval Methodology of the Oppressed (2000)
Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richard Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future (2001)
Nancy Fraser with Axel Honneth Redistribution or Recognition? A Political Philosophical Exchange (2001)
Chandra Talpade Mohanty Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (2003)
bell hooks Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2003)
Cynthia Cockburn From where we stand: war, women’s activism and feminist analysis (2007)
Sylvia Walby The Future of Feminism (2011)
Silvia Federici Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (Common Notions) (2012)
Nancy Fraser Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neo-liberal Crisis (Verso, 2013)
Mary Evans The Persistence of Gender Inequality (Polity, 2017)
Drude Dallerup Has Democracy Failed Women? (Polity, 2018)
Many books on Radical Feminism available as free downloads from:
radfem.org/
Visit also: www.fragen.nu/
The FRAGEN project brings together books, articles and pamphlets that were influential in the development of feminist ideas in 29 countries and in as many languages
