A radical feminist’s reading list

1.
The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating — 30,218 ratings
2.
Sexual Politics
Sexual Politics 3.99 avg rating — 3,856 ratings
3.
The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth 3.91 avg rating — 30,479 ratings
4.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,233 ratings
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,982 ratings
6.
Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,018 ratings
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Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights
Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights 4.10 avg rating — 163 ratings
8.
Feminisms: A Global History (Pelican Books)
Feminisms: A Global History (Pelican Books) 3.81 avg rating — 535 ratings
9.
Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975
Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 3.96 avg rating — 300 ratings
10.
The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism
The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism 4.18 avg rating — 97 ratings
11.
We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement 4.11 avg rating — 3,249 ratings
12.
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape 4.05 avg rating — 4,079 ratings
13.
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men 4.48 avg rating — 16,870 ratings
14.
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
15.
We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,741 ratings
16.
The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,864 ratings
17.
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978 4.36 avg rating — 1,133 ratings
18.
The Power
The Power 3.75 avg rating — 246,923 ratings
19.
Salt Slow
Salt Slow 3.97 avg rating — 14,311 ratings
20.
Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1)
Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 4,580 ratings
21.
The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues 3.87 avg rating — 37,999 ratings
22.
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories 3.82 avg rating — 102,318 ratings
23.
The Gate to Women's Country
The Gate to Women's Country 4.06 avg rating — 13,951 ratings
24.
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times 4.31 avg rating — 2,718 ratings
25.
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation 4.56 avg rating — 12,677 ratings
26.
The Living Goddesses
The Living Goddesses 4.23 avg rating — 286 ratings
27.
The Creation of Patriarchy
The Creation of Patriarchy 4.37 avg rating — 2,236 ratings
28.
Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World
Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World 3.80 avg rating — 4,179 ratings
29.
Women of Ideas: And What Men Have Done to Them
Women of Ideas: And What Men Have Done to Them 4.51 avg rating — 71 ratings
30.
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 4.50 avg rating — 18,477 ratings
31.
It's Not About the Burqa
It's Not About the Burqa 4.20 avg rating — 7,692 ratings
32.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,726 ratings
33.
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
34.
Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective
Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective 3.91 avg rating — 241 ratings
35.
The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture
The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture 3.96 avg rating — 137 ratings
36.
Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism
Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism 4.18 avg rating — 183 ratings
37.
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence 4.26 avg rating — 2,265 ratings
38.
End of Equality (Manifestos for the 21st Century)
End of Equality (Manifestos for the 21st Century) 3.92 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism
Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism 3.87 avg rating — 320 ratings
40.
Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism
Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism 4.08 avg rating — 112 ratings
41.
The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male
The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male 2.91 avg rating — 351 ratings
42.
Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking
Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking 4.34 avg rating — 1,213 ratings
43.
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality 3.95 avg rating — 1,899 ratings
44.
Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self
Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self 4.35 avg rating — 608 ratings
45.
The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade
The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade 3.96 avg rating — 276 ratings
46.
Only Words
Only Words 3.59 avg rating — 394 ratings
47.
Know My Name
Know My Name 4.69 avg rating — 243,487 ratings
48.
Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade
Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade 3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings
49.
Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle over Women's Freedom
Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle over Women's Freedom 4.04 avg rating — 47 ratings
50.
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 — 15,053 ratings
51.
Toward a New Psychology of Women
Toward a New Psychology of Women 4.05 avg rating — 331 ratings
52.
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions 4.51 avg rating — 86,821 ratings
53.
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
by: Mary Daly
3.88 avg rating — 1,550 ratings
54.
Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin 4.37 avg rating — 477 ratings
55.
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
56.
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 4.16 avg rating — 27,172 ratings
57.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center 4.45 avg rating — 8,772 ratings
58.
Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis
Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis 3.44 avg rating — 61 ratings
59.
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 521 ratings
60.
The Sexual Contract
The Sexual Contract 3.95 avg rating — 518 ratings
61.
Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now
Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now 4.37 avg rating — 627 ratings
62.
Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression
Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression 4.21 avg rating — 120 ratings
63.
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick 4.17 avg rating — 2,917 ratings
64.
Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West
Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West 4.01 avg rating — 425 ratings
65.
Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues
Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues 4.26 avg rating — 227 ratings
66.
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men 4.34 avg rating — 156,606 ratings
67.
A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection
A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection 4.29 avg rating — 90 ratings
68.
How to Suppress Women's Writing
How to Suppress Women's Writing 4.28 avg rating — 2,736 ratings
69.
Man Made Language
Man Made Language 4.23 avg rating — 200 ratings
70.
Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth
Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth 4.45 avg rating — 165 ratings
71.
The Book Eaters
The Book Eaters 3.61 avg rating — 52,964 ratings
72.
The Book of Cold Cases
The Book of Cold Cases 3.78 avg rating — 126,115 ratings
73.
The Haunting of Maddy Clare
The Haunting of Maddy Clare 3.84 avg rating — 33,188 ratings
74.
The Sun Down Motel
The Sun Down Motel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 180,213 ratings
75.
Mrs England
Mrs England 3.91 avg rating — 27,717 ratings
76.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,252 ratings
77.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 4.03 avg rating — 126,456 ratings
78.
Agnes Grey
Agnes Grey 3.71 avg rating — 78,684 ratings
79.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,855 ratings
80.
Villette
Villette 3.78 avg rating — 78,435 ratings
81.
North and South
North and South 4.15 avg rating — 179,585 ratings
82.
Evelina
Evelina 3.70 avg rating — 18,231 ratings
83.
Belinda
Belinda 3.67 avg rating — 3,791 ratings
84.
Woman on the Edge of Time
Woman on the Edge of Time 3.92 avg rating — 18,313 ratings
85.
Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,336 ratings
86.
Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,808 ratings
87.
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) 4.07 avg rating — 130,989 ratings
88.
The Edible Woman
The Edible Woman 3.69 avg rating — 39,572 ratings
89.
Terminal Boredom: Stories
Terminal Boredom: Stories 3.58 avg rating — 6,262 ratings
90.
Unspeakable Subjects: Feminist Essays in Legal and Social Theory
Unspeakable Subjects: Feminist Essays in Legal and Social Theory 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
91.
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women 3.51 avg rating — 895 ratings
92.
Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts
Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts 3.85 avg rating — 635 ratings
93.
Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education
Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education 3.85 avg rating — 553 ratings
94.
Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: Early Adventures of Working Women, the Professional Life and the Glass Ceiling.
Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: Early Adventures of Working Women, the Professional Life and the Glass Ceiling. 3.51 avg rating — 173 ratings
95.
The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men
The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men 3.80 avg rating — 51 ratings