From One Survivor to Another

Women’s Studies/Feminism recommended reading list

Rebloggable version, since someone asked!

Some essays that I could find links to:

Peggy McIntosh - Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, and Interactive Phases of Curricular Revision

Audre Lorde - The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, and The Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action

Adrienne Rich - Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience

Alice Walker - In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens (The book of the same title also has a lot of great material)

Barbara Welter - The Cult of True Womanhood

Books:

Women: Images & Realities, A Multicultural Anthology
Audre Lorde - Sister/Outsider
bell hooks - Feminism is for Everybody
bell hooks - Ain’t I A Woman?
Gerda Lerner - The Creation of Patriarchy
Gerda Lerner - The Creation of Feminist Consciousness
John Stuart Mill - The Subjection of Women
Andrea Smith - Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
Riki Wilchins - Queer Theory, Gender Theory
Elizabeth Spelman - Inessential Woman
Susan Bordo - Unbearable Weight
Naomi Wolff - The Beauty Myth (Wolff has been widely denounced after she handled the Julian Assange rape case horribly, so I recommend reading Susan Bordo’s work instead. It’s equally precise about cultural ideas of women and men and you won’t be supporting Wolff).
Nancy Tuana - Woman and the History of Philosophy
Gloria Anzaldua - Borderlands/La Frontera
Maxine Hong Kingston - The Woman Warrior
Paulo Freire - Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Jean Baker Miller, Towards a New Psychology of Women
Simon de Beauvoir - The Second Sex (Just a warning: both of these are very white centered, but they do have some pretty good ideas)

Feminist Poets: Sharon Olds, Nikki Giovanni, Sylvia Plath, Marge Piercy, Alice Walker, Lucille Clifton, Andrea Gibson, Gloria Anzaldua, Ani DiFranco, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Maya Angelou

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    helpful (especially as a women’s studies minor myself). Will bookmark this!

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