Recommended Reading
*Excuse the wonky formatting; this page is a work in progress and it’ll go back to looking pretty within a couple of weeks.
I’m going to attempt to separate these into different categories. I’ll be the first to say this is highly problematic since so many of these books (if not all of them) could easily fall into multiple categories, but please bear with me.
Also, I know it’s a little heavy on the history. That’s because 1) my degree was in women’s history, and 2) a lot of the books, while dealing with race/class issues, seem to fit more appropriately under the broader history category. I think.
History
- Fran Leeper Bus, Forged Under the Sun/Forjada bajo del sol: The Life of Maria Elena Lucas
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975
- Lillian Faderman,Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Between Men–Between Women)
- Evelyn Glenn, Issei Nisei War Bride
- Tera W. Hunter, To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War
- Elizabeth Kennedy and Madeline Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
- Yuri Kochiyama, Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama
- Helen M. Lewis and Monica Appleby, Mountain Sisters: From Convent to Community in Appalachia
- Eithnie Luibheid, Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border
- Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States
- Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi
- Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
- Américo Paredes, “With His Pistol In His Hand”: A Border Ballad and Its Hero
- Emma Pérez, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas Into History
- Benita Roth, Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave
- Vicki L. Ruiz, From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in the Twentieth Century
- Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
- Camilla Townsend, Maltinzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico
- Leonor Vilegas de Magnón, The Rebel
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1942-Present
- Soldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myth and History
Race
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
- Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera, The New Mestiza: Third Edition
- Chandra Mohanty, Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
- Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma
- Angela Davis, Women, Race, & Class
- Otto Santa Ana, Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse
- Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture
- Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge Classics)
- bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
- Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Feminism
- Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism
- Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
- BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
- Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
- Cunt: A Declaration of Independence Expanded and Updated Second Edition
- Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
- Geetha Ramanathan, Feminist Auteurs: Reading Women’s Films
