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Feminist Reprise's Archived Book List - Clover - Dec 26 2024
The following after the horizontal rule is an archive of the Feminist Reprise "Book List" page (formerly located at https://feminist-reprise.org/book-list/). URLs have been removed since I could not guarantee if the web domains were still active, and some formatting may have been changed.
Book List
Not all of these materials would be considered radical, even or perhaps especially by their authors. Nonetheless, radical women have found them useful. Links are included where possible; clicking on them may take you away from this site.
Radical Lesbian Feminist Theory
A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection, Jan Raymond
Call Me Lesbian: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Theory, Julia Penelope
The Lesbian Heresy, Sheila Jeffreys
The Lesbian Body, Monique Wittig
Politics of Reality, Marilyn Frye
Willful Virgin: Essays in Feminism 1976-1992, Marilyn Frye
Lesbian Ethics, Sarah Hoagland
Sister/Outsider, Audre Lorde
Radical Feminist Theory – General/Collections
Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism, edited by Miranda Kiraly and Meagan Tyler
Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, Renate Klein and Diane Bell
Love and Politics, Carol Anne Douglas
The Dialectic of Sex–The Case for Feminist Revolution, Shulamith Firestone
Sisterhood is Powerful, Robin Morgan, ed.
Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader, edited by Barbara A. Crow
Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf
Sexual Politics, Kate Millett
Radical Feminism, Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, and Anita Rapone, eds.
On Lies, Secrets and Silence, Adrienne Rich
Beyond Power: On Women, Men and Morals, Marilyn French
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law, Catharine MacKinnon
Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression, Sandra Bartky
Life and Death, Andrea Dworkin
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga, eds.
Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution, Sonia Johnson
Homegirls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Barbara Smith ed.
Fugitive Information, Kay Leigh Hagan
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black, bell hooks
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, bell hooks
Deals with the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot, Pearl Cleage
Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes, Maria Lugones
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, Alice Walker
The Whole Woman, Germaine Greer
Right Wing Women, Andrea Dworkin
Feminist Theory – Specific Areas
Prostitution
Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution, Rachel Moran
Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy, and the Split Self, Kajsa Ekis Ekman
The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade, Sheila Jeffreys
Female Sexual Slavery, Kathleen Barry
Women, Lesbians, and Prostitution: A Workingclass Dyke Speaks Out Against Buying Women for Sex, by Toby Summer, in Lesbian Culture: An Anthology, Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe, eds.
Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution, Jan Raymond
The Legalisation of Prostitution : A failed social experiment, Sheila Jeffreys
Making the Harm Visible: Global Sexual Exploitation of Women and Girls, Donna M. Hughes and Claire Roche, eds.
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress, Melissa Farley
Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant, eds.
Pornography
Pornland: How Pornography Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, Gail Dines
Pornified: How Porn is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families, Pamela Paul
Pornography: Men Possessing Women, Andrea Dworkin
Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality, Gail Dines
Pornography: Evidence of the Harm, Diana Russell
Pornography and Sexual Violence: Evidence of the Links (transcript of Minneapolis hearings published by Everywoman in the UK)
Rape
Against Our Will, Susan Brownmiller
Rape In Marriage, Diana Russell
Incest
Secret Trauma, Diana Russell
Victimized Daughters: Incest and the Development of the Female Self, Janet Liebman Jacobs
Battering/Domestic Violence
Loving to Survive, Dee Graham
Trauma and Recovery, Judith Herman
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men, Lundy Bancroft
Sadomasochism/”Sex Wars”
Unleashing Feminism: Critiquing Lesbian Sadomasochism in the Gay Nineties, Irene Reti, ed.
The Sex Wars, Lisa Duggan and Nan D. Hunter, eds.
The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism, edited by Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice Raymond
Sex, Lies, and Feminism, Charlotte Croson, off our backs, June 2001
How Orgasm Politics Has Hijacked the Women’s Movement, Sheila Jeffreys
A Vision of Lesbian Sexuality, Janice Raymond, in All The Rage: Reasserting Radical Lesbian Feminism, Lynne Harne & Elaine Miller, eds.
Sex and Feminism: Who Is Being Silenced? Adriene Sere in SaidIt, 2001
Consuming Passions: Some Thoughts on History, Sex and Free Enterprise by De Clarke (From Unleashing Feminism).
Separatism/Women-Only Space
“No Dobermans Allowed,” Carolyn Gage, in Lesbian Culture: An Anthology, Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe, eds.
For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology, Julia Penelope & Sarah Hoagland, eds.
Exploring the Value of Women-Only Space, Kya Ogyn
Medicine
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
The Hidden Malpractice: How American Medicine Treats Women as Patients and Professionals, Gena Corea
The Mother Machine: Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to Artificial Wombs, Gena Corea
Women and Madness, Phyllis Chesler
Women, Health and the Politics of Fat, Amy Winter, in Rain And Thunder, Autumn Equinox 2003, No. 20
Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and Psychology, Celia Kitzinger and Rachel Perkins
Motherhood
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, Adrienne Rich
The Reproduction of Mothering, Nancy Chodorow
Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace, Sara Ruddick
Marriage/Heterosexuality
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence, Adrienne Rich
The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930, Sheila Jeffreys
Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution, Sheila Jeffreys
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, Michele Wallace
The Sexual Contract, Carol Pateman
A Radical Dyke Experiment for the Next Century: 5 Things to Work for Instead of Same-Sex Marriage, Betsy Brown in off our backs, January 2000 V.30; N.1 p. 24
Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin
Transgender/Queer Politics
Gender Hurts, Sheila Jeffreys
Female Erasure, edited by Ruth Barrett
Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds, Cordelia Fine
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, Cordelina Fine
Sexing the Body: Gender and the Construction of Sexuality, Anne Fausto-Sterling
Myths of Gender, Anne Fausto-Sterling
Unpacking Queer Politics, Sheila Jeffreys
The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male, Janice Raymond
The Inconvenient Truth of Teena Brandon, Carolyn Gage
Language
Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers’ Tongues, Julia Penelope
Websters’ First New Intergalactic Wickedary, Mary Daly
Man Made Language, Dale Spender
Feminist Theology/Spirituality/Religion
Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation, Mary Daly
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, Mary Daly
The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe, Marija Gimbutas
Woman, Church and State, Matilda Joslyn Gage
The Women’s Bible, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Pure Lust, Mary Daly
Backlash
The War Against Women, Marilyn French
Backlash, Susan Faludi
History/Memoir
Surpassing the Love of Men, Lillian Faderman
Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicles of a Feminist, Robin Morgan
Women of Ideas, and What Men Have Done to Them, Dale Spender
The Creation of Patriarchy, Gerda Lerner
The Creation of Feminist Consciousness, From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy, Gerda Lerner
Why History Matters, Gerda Lerner
A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft, ed.
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches, Ellen Carol Dubois, ed., Gerda Lerner, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Suffragette Movement, Sylvia Pankhurst
In Our Time: Memoirs of a Revolution, Susan Brownmiller
Women, Race and Class, Angela Y. Davis
Economy
Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women Are Worth, Marilyn Waring
For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange, Genevieve Vaughn
Fat/Body Image/Appearance
Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression, Lisa Schoenfielder and Barb Wieser
Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West, Sheila Jeffreys
Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, Jean Kilbourne
The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Susan Bordo
The Invisible Woman: Confronting Weight Prejudice in America, Charisse Goodman
Women En Large: Photographs of Fat Nudes, Laurie Toby Edison and Debbie Notkin
Disability
With the Power of Each Breath: A Disabled Women’s Anthology, Susan E. Browne, Debra Connors, and Nanci Stern
Lesbian Feminist Fiction
Conditions of War, Lierre Keith
Skyler Gabriel, Lierre Keith
Sister Gin, June Arnold
The Cook and the Carpenter, June Arnold
Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy
Between Friends, Gillian Hanscombe
Nothing Happened, Ebba Haslund
The Wanderground, Sally Miller Gearhart
Ammonite, Nicola Griffith
The Female Man, Joanna Russ
On Strike Against God, Joanna Russ
Accommodation Offered, Anna Livia
Martha Moody, Susan Stinson
Fat Girl Dances With Rocks, Susan Stinson
Venus of Chalk, Susan Stinson