The Feminist Summer Reading List

[Erica Chan]

Here's a compilation of good feminist reads from the members of Women Action and the Media. Enjoy!

General Feminist Non-Fiction:
Backlash: the Undeclared War on American Women - Susan Faludi
The Body Project - Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Catfight! - Leora Tanenbaum
Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists - Courtney Martin and Courtney Sullivan
Enlightened Sexism - Susan J. Douglas
Everything You Wanted to Know About Feminist But Were Afraid to Ask - Rachel Fudge (read online here)
The Feminine and The Sacred - Catherine Clemant
The Feminist Promise - Christine Stansell
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics - Bell Hooks
Feminist Theory from Margin to Center - Bell Hooks
Full Frontal Feminism - Jessica Valenti
He's a Stud, She's a Slut - Jessica Valenti
Men and Feminism - Shira Tarrant
The Mermaid and the Minotaur - Dorothy Dinnerstein
No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power - Gloria Feldt
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV - Jennifer Pozner
Reasonable Creatures - Katha Pollitt
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book: A Primer on Reproductive Justice and Social Change (read online here)
Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future - Barbara J. Berg
Sisterhood Interrupted - Deborah Siegel
Slut! - Leora Tanenbaum
Taking on the Big Boys, or Why Feminism is Good for Families, Business and the Nation - Ellen Bravo
Where The Girls Are - Susan J. Douglas
When Everything Changed - Gail Collins
The World Split Open - Ruth Rosen

Women of Color:
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism - Bell Hooks
Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism - Daisy Hernadez
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black - Bell Hooks
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice - Jael Silliman
Virginity or Death - Katha Pollitt
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought - Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power & A World Without Rape - Jaclyn Friedman

Feminist Parenting:
The Courage to Raise Good Men - Olga Silverstein & Beth Rashbaum
The Curse of the Good Girl - Rachel Simmons
Dads and Daughters - Joe Kelly
Free to Be You and Me - Marlo Thomas and Friends
How To Say It To Girls - Nancy Gruver
Live-Away Dads - William Klatte
Reviving Ophelia - Mary Pipher

Feminist Literature (single book/work):
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Book of Dead Birds - Gail Brandeis
The Book of Salt - Monique Truong
Crescent - Diane Abu-Jabar
The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted and Other Stories - Elizabeth Berg
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf - Ntosake Shange
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
The Great Gilly Hopkins - Katherine Paterson
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This - Robin Black
In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
Leaving Rock Harbor - Rebecca Chace
Like One of the Family - Alice Childress
Living My Life - Emma Goldman
Love and Rockets - Jaime Hernandez
The Magician's Assistant - Ann Patchett
A Map of Home - Randa Jarrer
Maud Martha - Gwendolyn Brooks
My Bird - Fariba Vafi
My Year of Meats - Ruth Ozeki
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
The Rose and the Beast[/it] - Francesca Lia Block
The Salt Eaters - Toni Cade Bambara
Scottsboro - Ellen Feldman
Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
Sula - Toni Morrison
A Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
This Child's Gonna Live - Sarah Wright
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories - Sandra Cisneros

Feminist Fiction Writers/Playwrights (multiple works):
Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen
Aimee Bender
Octavia Butler
Angela Carter
Edwidge Danticat
Ursula Le Guin
Audre Lorde
Suzan Lori-Parks
Grace Paley
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Wendy Wasserstein
Jeannette Winterson
Virginia Woolf

Feminist Poets:
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Margaret Atwood
Anne Carson
Sandra Cisneros
Lucille Clifton
Audre Lorde
Grace Paley

Hope you enjoy!
Adrienne Rich