Books on Autostraddle's Feminism 101 List

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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,692 ratings
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The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues 3.87 avg rating — 38,000 ratings
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The Essential Feminist Reader
The Essential Feminist Reader 4.20 avg rating — 1,006 ratings
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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
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A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,518 ratings
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The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,581 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 — 18,482 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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Appetites: Why Women Want
Appetites: Why Women Want 4.05 avg rating — 3,335 ratings
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The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth 3.91 avg rating — 30,482 ratings
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The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls 3.82 avg rating — 3,737 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 — 18,784 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 — 8,545 ratings
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Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement
Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement 4.08 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology
Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology 4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium
Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium 4.09 avg rating — 156 ratings
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The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America
The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America 3.90 avg rating — 623 ratings
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Transgender History
Transgender History 4.22 avg rating — 5,495 ratings
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Women of Color and Feminism: Seal Studies
Women of Color and Feminism: Seal Studies 4.09 avg rating — 107 ratings
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 3.92 avg rating — 26,300 ratings
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A Doll's House
A Doll's House 3.77 avg rating — 159,049 ratings
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories 4.07 avg rating — 338,318 ratings
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A Voice from the South
A Voice from the South 4.13 avg rating — 341 ratings
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Living My Life
Living My Life 4.27 avg rating — 2,129 ratings
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The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,868 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating — 30,224 ratings
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose 4.29 avg rating — 8,253 ratings
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Diary of a Mad Housewife
Diary of a Mad Housewife 3.79 avg rating — 1,915 ratings
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SCUM Manifesto
SCUM Manifesto 3.77 avg rating — 11,559 ratings
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Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement
Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement 4.21 avg rating — 1,241 ratings
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Sexual Politics
Sexual Politics 3.99 avg rating — 3,856 ratings
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Rubyfruit Jungle
Rubyfruit Jungle 3.91 avg rating — 46,005 ratings
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The Female Eunuch
The Female Eunuch 3.68 avg rating — 7,401 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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Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era
Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era 4.37 avg rating — 7,461 ratings
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Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen 3.48 avg rating — 1,721 ratings
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Toward a New Psychology of Women
Toward a New Psychology of Women 4.05 avg rating — 331 ratings
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Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying 3.47 avg rating — 22,979 ratings
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Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution
Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution 3.82 avg rating — 93 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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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
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,022 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,729 ratings
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Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center 4.45 avg rating — 8,770 ratings
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,223 ratings
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 3.73 avg rating — 33,279 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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The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader
The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader 4.20 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
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Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues 4.53 avg rating — 34,595 ratings
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Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media 3.92 avg rating — 2,609 ratings
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Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap 4.05 avg rating — 1,296 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 — 6,314 ratings
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Whores and Other Feminists
Whores and Other Feminists 4.17 avg rating — 583 ratings
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PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality 3.85 avg rating — 1,012 ratings
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Sex Changes: Transgender Politics
Sex Changes: Transgender Politics 3.94 avg rating — 481 ratings
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The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art
The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art 3.96 avg rating — 1,728 ratings
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Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel
Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel 4.05 avg rating — 1,000 ratings
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The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order
The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order 3.82 avg rating — 1,119 ratings
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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 4.16 avg rating — 27,179 ratings
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Women and Power in Native North America
Women and Power in Native North America 3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation
Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation
by: Karla Jay
3.94 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation 3.88 avg rating — 1,961 ratings
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Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future 3.73 avg rating — 3,111 ratings
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YELL-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American
YELL-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American 3.75 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Turbo Chicks: Talking Young Feminisms
Turbo Chicks: Talking Young Feminisms 3.82 avg rating — 28 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 — 694 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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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence 3.89 avg rating — 10,594 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 — 194,445 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating — 138,480 ratings
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Women and Madness
Women and Madness 3.85 avg rating — 953 ratings
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BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine 4.04 avg rating — 3,333 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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Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time
Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time 3.93 avg rating — 230 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 — 8,774 ratings
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We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists
We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists 3.84 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Full Frontal Feminism
Full Frontal Feminism 3.86 avg rating — 8,056 ratings
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How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time
How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time 3.71 avg rating — 817 ratings
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Feminism and Pop Culture
Feminism and Pop Culture 3.83 avg rating — 931 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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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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Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music
Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music 3.56 avg rating — 803 ratings
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The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities
The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities 4.11 avg rating — 19 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