A radical feminist’s reading list-
Classic
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Sexual Politics by Kate Millett
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 by Adrienne Rich
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
Fiction
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Gate to Woman’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper
History
Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
The Living Goddesses by Marija Gimbutas
The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner
Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women’s History of the World by Rosalind Miles
Women of Ideas: And What Men Have Done to Them by Dale Spender
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World by Rachel Swaby
Intersectional
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
It’s Not About the Burqa by Mariam Khan (editor)
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga (editor) and Gloria Anzaldúa (editor)
Lesbian
Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective by Sheila Jeffreys
The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture by Bonnie J. Morris
Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism by Suzanne Pharr
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich
Liberal vs. radical
Female Erasure: What You Need to Know about Gender Politics’ War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights by Ruth Barrett (editor)
End of Equality by Beatrix Campbell
Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap
Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 by Alice Echols
Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism by Sheila Jeffreys
Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism by Miranda Kiraly (editor) and Meagan Tyler (editor)
The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism by Dorchen Leidholdt (editor) and Janice G. Raymond (editor)
The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male by Janice G. Raymond
We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement by Andi Zeisler
Pornography, prostitution, surrogacy & rape
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller
Slavery Inc.: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking by Lydia Cacho
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality by Gail Dines
Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self by Kajsa Ekis Ekman
The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade by Sheila Jeffreys
Only Words by Catharine A. Mackinnon
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade by Janice G. Raymond
Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle Over Women’s Freedom by Janice G. Raymond
Psychology & trauma
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Lewis Herman
Toward a New Psychology of Women by Jean Baker Miller
Theory
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism by Mary Daly
Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin by Andrea Dworkin, Johanna Fateman (editor) and Amy Scholder (editor
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for a Feminist Revolution by Shulamith Firestone
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis by Robin Ruth Linden (editor), Darlene R. Pagano (editor), Diana E. H. Russell (editor) and Susan Leigh Star (editor)
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State by Catharine A. Mackinnon
The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman
Other
Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now by Jenny Brown
Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women’s Oppression by Christine Delphy
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery
Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West by Sheila Jeffreys
Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. Mackinnon
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection by Janice G. Raymond
How to Suppress Women’s Writing by Joanna Russ
Man Made Language by Dale Spender
Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth by Marilyn Waring
