The Ms. Blog's Best Feminist Non-Fiction Reads: Reader's Choice

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A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,440 ratings
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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women 4.08 avg rating — 8,546 ratings
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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 4.16 avg rating — 27,175 ratings
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Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape 4.20 avg rating — 5,237 ratings
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The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues 3.87 avg rating — 37,998 ratings
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The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,862 ratings
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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence 3.89 avg rating — 10,595 ratings
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The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth 3.91 avg rating — 30,478 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,440 ratings
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity 4.05 avg rating — 18,775 ratings
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Full Frontal Feminism
Full Frontal Feminism 3.86 avg rating — 8,056 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,724 ratings
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity 4.27 avg rating — 8,773 ratings
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Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture 3.66 avg rating — 10,197 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,015 ratings
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Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century 4.37 avg rating — 7,461 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating — 30,215 ratings
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 4.50 avg rating — 18,479 ratings
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,138 ratings
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 224,929 ratings
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 4.28 avg rating — 55,460 ratings
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Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center 4.45 avg rating — 8,771 ratings
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women 4.04 avg rating — 9,233 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,933 ratings
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Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution 3.95 avg rating — 8,796 ratings
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating — 9,683 ratings
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 3.92 avg rating — 26,298 ratings
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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference 4.08 avg rating — 11,310 ratings
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Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape 4.05 avg rating — 4,079 ratings
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls 3.89 avg rating — 26,412 ratings
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Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture 3.67 avg rating — 16,139 ratings
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Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today
Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today 3.90 avg rating — 387 ratings
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Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future 3.73 avg rating — 3,112 ratings
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Sexual Politics
Sexual Politics 3.99 avg rating — 3,855 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 4.41 avg rating — 5,475 ratings
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions 4.19 avg rating — 5,031 ratings
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This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor 4.31 avg rating — 2,405 ratings
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Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us 4.03 avg rating — 6,315 ratings
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,222 ratings
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In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development
In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development 4.06 avg rating — 4,146 ratings
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Bossypants
Bossypants
by: Tina Fey
3.96 avg rating — 1,041,949 ratings
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Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women 3.38 avg rating — 5,113 ratings
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He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know
He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know 3.89 avg rating — 3,267 ratings
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The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,248 ratings
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Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism 4.20 avg rating — 3,243 ratings
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Nobody Passes
Nobody Passes 4.01 avg rating — 2,508 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,728 ratings
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The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World
The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World 4.02 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2) 4.22 avg rating — 78,067 ratings
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I Am an Emotional Creature
I Am an Emotional Creature 4.01 avg rating — 3,390 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography 4.59 avg rating — 29,691 ratings
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You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation 3.88 avg rating — 6,683 ratings
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Just Kids
Just Kids 4.21 avg rating — 333,643 ratings
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How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex
How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex 4.04 avg rating — 975 ratings
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,715 ratings
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade 4.24 avg rating — 10,667 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted 3.94 avg rating — 269,398 ratings
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Men Explain Things to Me
Men Explain Things to Me 3.83 avg rating — 85,147 ratings
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The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution 3.85 avg rating — 2,733 ratings
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Fat Is a Feminist Issue
Fat Is a Feminist Issue 3.69 avg rating — 2,262 ratings
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,083 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis 4.40 avg rating — 199,563 ratings
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution 4.23 avg rating — 2,732 ratings
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The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology
The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology 4.34 avg rating — 1,392 ratings
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How to Be a Woman
How to Be a Woman 3.71 avg rating — 109,843 ratings
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Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundries of Gender
Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundries of Gender 3.98 avg rating — 461 ratings
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Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work Is Done
Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work Is Done 3.87 avg rating — 2,320 ratings
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An Autobiography
An Autobiography 4.44 avg rating — 10,447 ratings
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The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service 4.33 avg rating — 3,398 ratings
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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present 4.06 avg rating — 5,588 ratings
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Intercourse
Intercourse really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,698 ratings
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty 4.45 avg rating — 5,136 ratings
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Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation
Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation 3.98 avg rating — 1,494 ratings
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Communion: The Female Search for Love
Communion: The Female Search for Love 4.35 avg rating — 9,499 ratings
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Anarchism and Other Essays
Anarchism and Other Essays 4.05 avg rating — 7,038 ratings
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Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire
Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire 4.01 avg rating — 695 ratings
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Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women
Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women 4.18 avg rating — 1,766 ratings
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town 4.12 avg rating — 57,730 ratings
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Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide 4.33 avg rating — 1,362 ratings
80.
Methodology of the Oppressed
Methodology of the Oppressed 4.14 avg rating — 408 ratings
81.
Feminism and Pop Culture
Feminism and Pop Culture 3.83 avg rating — 931 ratings
81.
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future 4.18 avg rating — 4,163 ratings
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Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism
Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism 4.15 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America 4.26 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
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The Creation of Patriarchy
The Creation of Patriarchy 4.37 avg rating — 2,236 ratings
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Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice 4.14 avg rating — 2,691 ratings
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Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem 4.12 avg rating — 3,096 ratings
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Outlaw Culture
Outlaw Culture 4.28 avg rating — 1,346 ratings
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Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories
Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories 3.54 avg rating — 531 ratings
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Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football's Sexual Assault Crisis
Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football's Sexual Assault Crisis 4.13 avg rating — 301 ratings
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Six Wives of Henry VIII 4.12 avg rating — 72,136 ratings
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Marilyn
Marilyn really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 760 ratings
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Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood
Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood 3.80 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
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The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back 4.03 avg rating — 291 ratings
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Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
by: Mary Daly
3.88 avg rating — 1,550 ratings
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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror 4.39 avg rating — 15,052 ratings
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The Female Eunuch
The Female Eunuch 3.68 avg rating — 7,401 ratings
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Me: Stories of My Life
Me: Stories of My Life 3.81 avg rating — 15,988 ratings
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Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity 4.24 avg rating — 2,011 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life 3.93 avg rating — 16,522 ratings
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