Feminist Required Reading: Beginner, Intermediate, & Advanced

FEMINIST REQUIRED READING 2020

(USA, Nonfiction)

BEGINNER

1.     Adichie, C. N. (2014). We should all be feminists. New York: Vintage.

2.    Chemaly, S. (2018). Rage becomes her: The power of women’s anger. New York: Simon and Schuster.

3.    Crenshaw, K. (1990). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stan. L. Rev., 43, 1241. Retrieved from: https://is.muni.cz/el/fss/jaro2016/SPR470/um/62039368/Crenshaw_1991.pdf.

4.    Ferguson, K. E. (2017). Feminist theory today. Annual Review of Political Science, 20, 269-286. (This is not available for free online, but I have a PDF copy so email me if you want me to share it with you!)

5.    Gay, R. (2014). Bad feminist: Essays. New York: Harper Perennial.

6.    Hooks, B. (2000). Feminism is for everybody: Passionate politics. Oxford, UK: Routledge.

7.    Mock, J. (2014). Redefining realness: My path to womanhood, identity, love & so much more. New York: Simon and Schuster.

8.    Solnit, R. (2014). Men explain things to me. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books.

9.    Traister, R. (2018). Good and mad: The revolutionary power of women's anger. New York: Simon and Schuster.

10.  West, L. (2016). Shrill: Notes from a loud woman. London: Hachette.

INTERMEDIATE

1.    Ahmed, S. (2016). Living a feminist life. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

2.    Beard, M. (2017). Women & power: a manifesto. London: Profile Books.

3.    Kochiyama, Y., & Aguilar-San Juan, K. (1997). Dragon ladies: Asian American feminists breathe fire. Boston, MA: South End Press.

4.    Lorde, A. (2012). Sister outsider: Essays and speeches. Toronto: Crossing Press.

5.    Moraga, C., & Anzaldúa, G. (Eds.). (2015). This bridge called my back: Writings by radical women of color. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

6.    Rich, A. (1995). Of woman born: Motherhood as experience and institution. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

7.    Taylor, K. Y. (Ed.). (2017). How we get free: Black feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books.

8.    Weiss, E. (2018). The woman’s hour: The great fight to win the vote. New York: Penguin.

9.    Wollstonecraft, M. (1988, 1792). A vindication of the rights of woman. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

10.  Woolf, V. (1989). A room of one’s own. London: Mariner Books.

ADVANCED

1.     Butler, J. (2011, 1990). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge.

2.    Collins, P. H. (1990). Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. Oxford, UK: Routledge.

3.    Davis, A. Y. (2011). Women, race, & class. New York: Vintage.

4.    de Beauvoir, S. (2011, 1949). The second sex. New York: Vintage.

5.    Haraway, D. (2013). Simians, cyborgs, and women: The reinvention of nature. Oxford, UK: Routledge.

6.    Lerner, G. (1986). The creation of patriarchy (Vol. 1). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

7.    Lerner, G. (1993). The creation of feminist consciousness: From the middle ages to eighteen-seventy (Vol. 2). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

8.    Manne, K. (2017). Down girl: The logic of misogyny. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

9.    Manne, K. (2020). Entitled: How male privilege hurts women. New York: Crown.

10.  Weeks, K. (2011). The problem with work: Feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.