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Feminist History Books
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Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 6,235 ratings — published 2022
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,471 ratings — published 1949
Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,331 ratings — published 1989
Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,241 ratings — published 1970
The Feminine Mystique (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,520 ratings — published 1963
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 26,526 ratings — published 1792
The Riot Grrrl Collection (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 689 ratings — published 2013
A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique & American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.71 — 696 ratings — published 2008
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.56 — 13,124 ratings — published 2004
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.59 — 33,681 ratings — published 1981
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 345,738 ratings — published 1892
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History―Unveiling the Untold Stories of Women Who Shaped England from 1066 to Modern Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,294 ratings — published 2023
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 491 ratings — published 1984
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,848 ratings — published 2020
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,956 ratings — published 2023
The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 6,663 ratings — published 2021
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,110 ratings — published 1999
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,238 ratings — published 2018
Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (Latin America Otherwise)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 99 ratings — published 2001
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 65,476 ratings — published 2019
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 180,323 ratings — published 2016
My Own Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 26,805 ratings — published 2016
Woman Hating (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,349 ratings — published 1974
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,342 ratings — published 1987
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 224,442 ratings — published 1899
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,361,644 ratings — published 1985
Sexual Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,883 ratings — published 1969
Intercourse (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,788 ratings — published 1987
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,766 ratings — published 1970
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.65 — 696 ratings — published 2012
The Beauty Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 30,720 ratings — published 1990
The Female Eunuch (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,436 ratings — published 1970
My Life on the Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 36,465 ratings — published 2015
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The Wars Of The Roses (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,249 ratings — published 2012
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 36,469 ratings — published 2015
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 252,029 ratings — published 1929
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,264 ratings — published 1984
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,934 ratings — published 2010
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,647 ratings — published 1972
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,453 ratings — published 1996
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,287 ratings — published 1983
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,778 ratings — published
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,715 ratings — published 1993
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,089 ratings — published 1989
Who’s Afraid of Gender? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,655 ratings — published 2024
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 167 ratings — published 1998
Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 124 ratings — published 1984
Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as feminist-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,124 ratings — published 2019
Women of Komala: Gender and Revolution in Iranian Kurdistan (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as feminist-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 92,731 ratings — published 1992
“I was thinking about the need to have a feminist bookstore, a place for women to buy books about women. Because in those days, if you would go to a regular bookstore and ask about books for women, one, they would have almost nothing, two, they wouldn't pay attention, or they would look at you like you were a weird person.”
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“Patti Smith wrote to me in Amsterdam in 1971, and she said, 'I always loved you because you could find the laughter loophole in any tragedy.' If you're going to be up close with life, the one perk you get from experiencing pain is that you also get to experience what is hysterically funny about it. There's something just so absurd about life that is quirky and weird.
For instance, there is something completely funny - a laughter loophole - in most of the rapes that happened to me. In Bad Reputation! I tell the story of this guy who tied my legs together, and I thought, 'Well, how's he going to rape me if he ties my legs together?' I guess everybody has those experiences. It's a way to maintain sanity. The reason why I chose realism was because I was just so stunned by how crazy real life is. I suppose because my early experiences were with camp - with Vaccaro, for example- everything has been a sideshow carnival. I wanted to show the ridiculousness of reality. (from an Interview with Dominic Johnson)”
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For instance, there is something completely funny - a laughter loophole - in most of the rapes that happened to me. In Bad Reputation! I tell the story of this guy who tied my legs together, and I thought, 'Well, how's he going to rape me if he ties my legs together?' I guess everybody has those experiences. It's a way to maintain sanity. The reason why I chose realism was because I was just so stunned by how crazy real life is. I suppose because my early experiences were with camp - with Vaccaro, for example- everything has been a sideshow carnival. I wanted to show the ridiculousness of reality. (from an Interview with Dominic Johnson)”
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