Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History Kukum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid Kali for Women 1989 From Zubaan: This collection of essays stands at an unarticulated conjuncture within the feminist movement and women’s studies that have emerged in India since the 1970s. The anthology attempts to explore the inter-relation of patriarchies with political economy, law, religion…
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The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India 1800-1990. Radha Kumar Kali for Women 1993 From Zubaan: A thematic history of the women’s movement in India both before and after independence, this book covers the period from the nineteenth century to the present day. It looks at…
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethicsof Radical Feminism Mary Daly Beacon Press 1978 Mary Daly’s New Intergalactic Introduction explores her process as a Crafty Pirate on the Journey of Writing Gyn/Ecology and reveals the autobiographical context of this “Thunderbolt of Rage” that she first hurled against the patriarchs in 1979 and no hurls again in the Re-Surging Movement of Radical…
How to Suppress Women’s Writing Joanna Russ University ofTexas Press 1983 From Wikipedia: Written in the style of a sarcastic and irreverent guidebook, it explains how women are prevented from producing written works, not given credit when such works are produced, or dismissed or belittled for those contributions they are acknowledged to have made. Although…
Of Woman Born: Motherhoodas Experience and Institution Adrienne Rich WW Norton & Company 1976 “In order for all women to have real choices all along the line,” Adrienne Rich writes, “we need fully to understand the power and powerlessness embodied in motherhood in patriarchal culture.” Rich’s investigation, in this influential and landmark book, concerns both…
Witches, Midwives and Nurses Barbara Ehrenreich,Deirdre English The Feminist Press 1973 Witches, Midwives, & Nurses, first published by the Feminist Press in 1973, is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. In this new edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have written an entirely new chapter…
Backlash: The UndeclaredWar Against American Women Susan Faludi Crown 1991 From Wikipedia: Faludi argues that the backlash uses a strategy of “blaming the victim”, by suggesting that the women’s liberation movement itself is the cause of many of the problems alleged to be plaguing women in the late 1980s. She also argues that many of these problems are…
The Dialectic of Sex: TheCase for Feminist Revolution Shulamith Firestone William Morrow 1970 From Wikipedia: This book was written over a few months when Firestone was 25. In it, she argues that the “sexual class system” predates and runs deeper than any other form of oppression, and that the eradication of sexism will require a radical reordering of…
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Sexual Politics
Sexual Politics Kate Millett Doubleday 1970 Praised and denounced when it was first published in 1970, Sexual Politics not only explored history but also became part of it. Kate Millett’s groundbreaking book fuelled feminism’s second wave, giving voice to the anger of a generation while documenting the inequities – neatly packaged in revered works of…
Our Blood: Prophecies andDiscourses on Sexual Politics Andrea Dworkin The Women’s Press 1982 In this fierce and beautiful book, Andrea Dworkin confronts our most profound social disgrace: the sexual, cultural, and political subjugation of women to men, and with rare eloquence examines the systematic crimes of our male-dominated society against women. Women, looking into the…