Summer Reading, Summer Lists VI
From the New York Public Library, “Know your Feminisms–a book list “essential for understanding the history of feminism and the women’s rights movement.” Their list of ten essential titles is:
- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (annotated and with an introduction by Susan Gubar)
- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, with an introduction by Judith Thurman)
- The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
- Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig
- The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
- Sexual Politics by Kate Millett
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
- The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
- Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
- Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
The complete Know Your Feminisms list is available also from the NYPL, updated March 8 2016 complete with current titles.