Sept 2009 Women's Rights

Women's Rights Literature

Mary Wollstoncraft - A Vindication on the Rights of Women (1791)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
Sarah Grand - The Beth Book (1898)
Kate Chopin - The Awakening (1899)

Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own (1929)
Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex (1949)

Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook (1962)
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique (1963)

Germaine Greer - The Female Eunich (1970)
Kate Millet - Sexual Politics (1970)
Shilamith Firestone - The Dialect of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970)
Morgan, Robin (ed) - Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement (1970)
Juliett Mitchell - Women's Estate (1971)
Sheila Rowbotham - Women's Consciousness, Man's World (1973)
Patricia Meyer Spacks - The Female Imagination (1975)
Susan Brownmiller - Against our Will (1975)
Anne Summers - Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonisation of Women in Australia (1975)
Adrienne Rich - Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1976)
Elaine Showalter - A Literature of Their Own (1977)
Gilbert & Guber - The Madwoman in the Attic (1979)
Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber (1979)


bell hooks - Ain't I a Woman? (1981)
Carole Gilligan - In a Different Voice (1982)
Dale Spender - Women of Ideas (And What Men Have Done To Them) (1982)
Gloria Steinem - Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)
Dale Spender (ed) - Feminist Theorists: Three Centuries of Key Women Thinkers (1983)
Mary Daly - Pure Lust (1984)
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Andrea Dworkin - Intercourse (1987)
Judith Butler - Gender Trouble:Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Thinking Gender) (1989)

Nancy Friday - My Mother, My Self (1990)
Naomi Wolf - The Beauty Myth (1991)
Susan Faludi - Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (1991)
Gloria Steinem - Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem (1992)
Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Women Archetyte (1992)
Paula Rothenberg - Race, Class and Gender in the US (1992)
Susan Bordo - Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body (1993)
Naomi Wolf - Fire With Fire: The New Female Power and How it will Change the 21st Century (1993)
Kate Bornstein - Gender Outlaw (1994)
Christina Hoff Summers - Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women (1995)
Barbara Findlen (ed) - Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation (1995)
Margartet Wertheim - Pythagorus' Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars (1995)
Eva Cox - Leading Women: Tactics for making the Difference (1996)
Julie Mitchell and Ann Oakely (eds) - Who's Afraid of Feminism: Seeing Through the Backlash (1997)
Germaine Greer - The Whole Woman (1999)
Susan Faludi - Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man (1999)

bell hooks - Feminism is for Everyone: Passionate Politics - (2000)
Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards - MainfestA: Young Women, Feminism and the Future (2000)
Baxandall & Gordon (ed) - Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement (2000)
Anne Summers - The End of Equality: Work, Babies and Women's Choices in 21st Australia (2003)
Astrid Henry - Not my Mother's Sister: Generational Conflict and Third Wave Feminism (2004)
Baumgardner & Richards - Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism (2005)
Ariel Levy - Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (2005)
Maureen Dowd - Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide (2005)
Ellen Bravo - Taking on the Big Boys or Why Feminism is Good for Families, Business and the Nation (2007)
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx - Elaine Showalter (2009)
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide - Nicholas D Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn (2009)