This is my Feminist Bookshelf (or rather, a stack of all my feministy books + my kindle). Last night I posted my list of feminist ebooks I’m reading through. There are frequently requests for feminist reading. So I thought it would make sense to compile a list (and update it occasionally) of all of the feminist-related books I’ve read/am reading. These are in absolutely no order. (I didn’t realize how giant the list was, so I am categorizing to make it easier to navigate & I realize many of these could fall into several categories). It’s the ebooks and the books I own in the photo (except for a couple that are borrowed) and books I read but had to return to the library. It’s lacking in some key areas: mostly the non-white, non-cis, non-hetero, non-UScentric variety. So I’m always open to suggestions. (Clearly I’m an avid reader). GENERAL FEMINIST READING (or stuff I couldn’t otherwise categorize) Feminism is for Everybody bell hooks Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrrls Gone Wild Deborah Siegel  Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women Susan Faludi Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture Ariel Levy Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism’s Work is Done Susan J. Douglas He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know Jessica Valenti Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters Jessica Valenti Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women Elizabeth Wurtzel We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists Melody Berger To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism Rebecca Walker The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism Vivien Labaton Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation Leora Tanenbaum Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess Susan Jane Gilman The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan The Female Eunuch Germaine Greer Fight Like a Girl: How to be a Fearless Feminist Megan Seely Why Women Should Rule the World Dee Dee Myers BODY IMAGE / BODY POLICING The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women Naomi Wolf Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self Lori Gottlieb The Vagina Monologues Eve Ensler GENDER  Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History Michelle Ann Abate Delusions of Gender: How our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference Cordelia Fine Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Judith Butler ISSUES OF RACE A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story Elaine Brown Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations bell hooks Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment Patricia Hill Collins I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished works of Audre Lorde (Audrey Lorde, but compiled by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnetta Betsch Cole, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall) LGBT*QA Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian and Bisexual in a College Sorority Pamela W. Freeman (ed) and Shane L. Windmeyer (ed) POP CULTURE Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan Lorna Jowett BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch MagazineLisa Jervis, Andi Zeisler, and Margaret Cho Where the Girls: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media Are Susan J. Douglas Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts it in a Box Merri Lisa Johnson HERSTORY Cartooning for Suffrage Alice Sheppard From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Women’s Comics from Teens to Zines Trina Robbins Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United StatesEleanor Flexner and Ellen Fitzpatrick Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Geoffrey C. Ward MUSIC Riot Grrrl: Revolution Girl Style Now! Nadine Monem (ed) Pretty in Punk: Girl’s Gender Resistance in a Boy’s Subculture Lauraine Leblanc Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution Sara Marcus RELIGION / MORALITY The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women Jessica Valenti The Woman’s Bible Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader Elizabeth A. Castelli (ed) and Rosamond C. Roman (ed) EDUCATION The Difference: Growing Up Female in America Judy Mann Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps - And What We Can Do About It Lise Eliot ECO FEMINISM Sexual Politics of Meat: a feminist vegetarian critical theory Carol J. Adams RAPE CULTURE Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape Jacyln Friedman and Jessica Valenti MEMOIRS Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books  Azar Nafisi Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir Janice Erlbaum

This is my Feminist Bookshelf (or rather, a stack of all my feministy books + my kindle).

Last night I posted my list of feminist ebooks I’m reading through. There are frequently requests for feminist reading. So I thought it would make sense to compile a list (and update it occasionally) of all of the feminist-related books I’ve read/am reading. These are in absolutely no order. (I didn’t realize how giant the list was, so I am categorizing to make it easier to navigate & I realize many of these could fall into several categories). It’s the ebooks and the books I own in the photo (except for a couple that are borrowed) and books I read but had to return to the library. It’s lacking in some key areas: mostly the non-white, non-cis, non-hetero, non-UScentric variety. So I’m always open to suggestions. (Clearly I’m an avid reader).

GENERAL FEMINIST READING (or stuff I couldn’t otherwise categorize)

BODY IMAGE / BODY POLICING

GENDER 

ISSUES OF RACE

LGBT*QA

POP CULTURE

HERSTORY

MUSIC

RELIGION / MORALITY

EDUCATION

ECO FEMINISM

RAPE CULTURE

MEMOIRS

So Much to Be Reading!

The following are only the books I’ve listed under “Feminist Reading” on my kindle

I’ve also got a handful of memoir and fiction books that probably could fall into the general ‘feminism’ category.

Apparently when you write a feminist work, you MUST have a title and the a :subtitle. 

And this is to say nothing of all my physical books sitting on their shelves, or all of the non-feminist related reading I have (both in book and ebook form). 

What’s really weird is I started this post to say “these are some of the things I’m interested in - recommend some more feminist books to me!” - because clearly I don’t have enough to read? 

mmmfeminism:

spectrumnaut:

I know money for books is hard to come by, but if you get a chance or can borrow it, I HIGHLY recommend Readings for Diversity and Social Justice, Second Edition. The second edition includes Ageism/Adultism, religious oppression, and transgender oppression. 

This book was the text in my “Diversity and Populations At-Risk” class for social work this semester. I know it’s a long list, but I love this book. I still haven’t finished it, and I am always learning and being exposed to new things. The authors of the essays are all experts in their areas.

I really love this book because each chapter is broken into sections, and there are several essays for each section. The sections are: “Introduction”, “Context”, “Voices”, and “Next Steps”. It introduces the oppression, does a complete overview, and then tells the reader how change can be made.

There is a table of intersections and there are other materials in it as well . Below I am listing the chapters and including some of the essays. 

The chapters are:

  1. “Conceptual Frameworks”, which includes essays entitled “The Complexity of Identity: ‘Who Am I’”?, “The Social Construction of Difference”, “The Cycle of Socialization” and “The Cycle of Liberation”
  2. “Racism”, which includes essays “Defining Racism: Can We Talk?”, “Symbolic Racism, History, and Reality: The Real Problem with Indian Mascots”, “The Possessive Investment in Whiteness”, “Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing”, “Over-Raided, Under Siege: U.S Immigration Laws and Enforcement Destroy the Rights of Immigrants”, “Waking Up White: What It Means to Accept Your Legacy, For Better and Worse”
  3. “Classism”: “”The Dangerous Consequences of Growing Inequality”, “Race, Wealth, and Equality”, “Unnatural Disasters: Race and Poverty”, “Migrant Tomato Workers Face Chronic Abuse”, “Classified: How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and use it For Social Change”, “Deep Thoughts About Class Privilege”
  4. “Religious Oppression”: “Christian Nation or Pluralistic Culture: Religion in American Life”, “Christian Privilege: Breaking a Sacred Taboo”, “Religious Oppression of Indian Americans in the Contemporary United States”, “Creating Identity-Safe Spaces on College Campuses for Muslim Students”
  5. “Sexism”: “‘Night to His Day’: The Social Construction of Gender”, “Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity”, “Women’s Pay: Why the Gap Remains a Chasm”, “The Body Politic”, “Girl Hate”, “Heartbroken: Women of Color Feminism and the Third Wave”
  6. “Heterosexism”: “How Homophobia Hurts Everyone”, “Biphobia”, “The interSEXion: A Vison for a Queer Progressive Agenda”, “Taking the Gay Insults Personally”, “Mestiza/o Gender: Notes Towards a Transformative Masculinity”, “Becoming an Ally: A New Examination:
  7. “Transgender Oppression: “Transgender Liberation”, “Look! No, Don’t! The Invisibility Dilemma for Transsexual Men”, “Calling All Restroom Revolutionaries!”, “Mutilating Gender”, “Trans Woman Manifesto” (Julia Serano)
  8. “Ableism”: “Struggle for Freedom: Disability Rights Movement”, “The Social Construction of Disability”, “Why the Intersexed Shouldn’t Be Fixed: Insights form Queer Theory and Disability Studies”, “Gawking, Gaping, Staring”, “How to Curse in Sign Language”, “In the LD Bubble”, “Toward Ending Ableism in Education”, “Creating a Fragrance-Free Zone: A Friendlier Atmosphere for People Living with Environmental Illness”, “Recognizing Ableist Beliefs and Practices and Taking Action as an Ally”
  9. “Ageism and Adultism”: “‘Look Out, Kid, It’s Something You Did’: The Criminalization of Children”, “Police Make Life Hell for Youth of Color”, “Elder Liberation Draft Policy Statement”, “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Problem of Ageism in Public Schools”, “What allies of Elders Can Do”, “People of Color over Fifty”
  10. “Working For Social Justice: Visions and Strategies for Change”: “Developing a Liberatory Consciousness”, “What Can We Do?”, “Interrupting the Cycle of Oppression: The Role of Allies as Agents of Change”, “Unite and Rebel!: Challenges and Struggles in Building Alliances” 

Ooo! :D 

So this sounds awesome.

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