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The Feminist Canon

A list compiled from various sources, of books considered to be ‘required reading’ for those in the Women’s Liberation Movement.
1. The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
  
2. Fat Is a Feminist Issue
by Susie Orbach
  
3. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
by Ariel Levy
  
4. SCUM Manifesto
by Valerie Solanas
  
5. Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (Live Girls)
by Inga Muscio
  
6. Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism
by Jennifer Baumgardner
  
8. The Female Eunuch
by Germaine Greer
  
9. A Vindication of the Rights of Women
by Mary Wollstonecraft
  
10. The Second Sex
by Simone De Beauvoir
  
11. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
by Carol J. Adams
  
12. Sexual Politics
by Kate Millett
  
13. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
by Bell Hooks
  
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 Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement
by Robin Morgan
  
15. Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
by Susan Brownmiller
  
16.
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 Pornography: Men possessing women
by Andrea Dworkin
  
17. Intercourse
by Andrea Dworkin
  
18. Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
by bell hooks
  
19. The Whole Woman
by Germaine Greer
  
20. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi
  
21. The Beauty Myth
by Naomi Wolf
  
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Created by Anji on Apr 19, 2008.