Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Chandra Mohanty, Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
Geetha Ramanathan, Feminist Auteurs: Reading Women’s Films
Benita Roth, Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave
Reviewed women’s studies-related books:
Autobiography/Memoir/Letters
- (The) Adventures of Cancer Bitch by S.L. Wisenberg
- As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto ed. by Joan Reardon
- (The) Good Daugher: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life by Jasmin Darznik
- (The) New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker
Feminism
- African Americans Doing Feminism: Putting Theory into Everyday Practice ed. by Aaronette M. White
- Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging ed. by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber
- Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism by Emma Bee Bernstein and Nona Willis Aronowitz
- Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life by Stephanie Staal
- (A) Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Fiction
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
- God Dies by the Nile by Nawal El Saadawi
- Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
- (The) Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
- Some Sing, Some Cry by Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza
Women’s History
- Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry by Tiffany M. Gill
- Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
- Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus
- (The) Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Jane Austen: A Life Revealed by Catherine Reef
- She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
- Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran
Women’s Studies-Related Nonfiction
- Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein
- (The) Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
- (The) Education of Women and The Vices of Men by Bibi Khanom Astarabadi
- Good Porn: A Woman’s Guide by Erika Lust
- Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera ed. by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Georgina Guzmán
- Rape New York by Jana Leo
- Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
- Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape ed. by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman
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I’m so thrilled with you reading list, because the last book on it is not one I’d heard of!!! So that gets added to MY reading list for sure!!!
Thanks for having this information available to those who come by for a visit!
Liven in the Gila Wilderness of the Southwest. I stop into women’s bookstore in Tucson AZ looking for latina authors beyong Isabelle Allende whom I adore. They did not even have Sandra Cisneros. They asked me to give them a list of Latinas, Cubanas, PuertoRiquellas, etc.I have only been able to come up with a short list from my library not in storage. Besides Frida Kahlo?
Also, I have been trying to email The Feminist Texican and your email came back returned? I had been sending notice to several GFs who are like minded Sistas. And wanted them to be able to be in touch.
I also wanted you to spread information on my mom’s foundation akrfoundation.org because of being 1/3 Advisors interested in funding feminist programming in 50 South Texas Counties.
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