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The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, 1949
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, 1963
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer, 1970
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The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist
Revolution by Shulamith Firestone, 1970
Ain’t I a Woman? Black Woman and Feminism by bell
hooks, 1981
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The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf, 1990
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American
Women by Susan Faludi,1991
Feminism is for EVERYBODY: Passionate Politics by
bell hooks, 2000
The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s
Movement Changed America by Ruth Rosen, 2000
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001
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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio,
2002
Zoya’s Story: An Afghan Woman’s Struggle for
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Freedom by Zoya with John Follain and Rita
Cristofari, 2003
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of
Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy, 2005
How the Pro Choice Movement Saved America by
Cristina Page, 2006
Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to
Why Feminism Matters by Jessica Valenti, 2007
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The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with
Virginity is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti,
2009
The Guys Guide to Feminism by Michael Kimmil,
2011
Privilege by Michael Kimmel and Abby L Ferber,
2013
Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay, 2014
Non᷾ction/Essays/Anthologies
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary
Wollstonecraft, 1792
A Voice from the South by Anna Julia Cooper, 1892
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, 1929
Black Women’s Manifesto: Double Jeopardy: To be
Black and Female by Frances M. Beal, 1969
(Originally written as a pamphlet)
This Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical
Women of Color, Edited by Cherrie Moraga and
Gloria Anzaldua, 1981
In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose
by Alice Walker, 1983
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria
Anzaldua, 1987
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre
Lorde, 1994
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
by Kate Bornstein, 1995
Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s
Feminism coedited by Daisy Hernandez and Bushra
Rehman, 2002
In᷾del: My Life by Ayan Hirsi Ali, 2006
The Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology by
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, 2006
Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience edited by
Craig Crist-Evans and Roger Weingarten, 2006
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and
the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano, 2007
The Essential Feminist Reader Edited by Estelle B.
Freedman 2007
The Meaning of Freedom and Other Dif᷾cult
Dialogues by Angela Davis, 2011
Fiction
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 1880
The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 1899
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, 1929
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale
Hurston, 1937
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 1943
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank, 1947
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor, 1952
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 1962
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, 1963
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou,
1969
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin, 1969
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. 1970
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong, 1973
Kindred by Octavia Butler, 1979
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, 1979
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, 1982
The Color Purple by Alice Walker, 1982
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, 1986
The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S Tepper,
1988
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, 1997
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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, 1998
Memoirs of a Beatnik by Diane di Prima, 1998
Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey, 2002
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2013
China Dolls by Lisa See, 2014
Young Adult Fiction
The Tortall Series by Tamora Pierce, 1983-Present
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, 2010
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