Feminist Reads

Books dedicated to feminist history and ideals.
Updated September 30, 2022
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The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
Paper Book
'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman' First published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking, risque book that became a runaway success. Selling 20,000 copies in its first week, the book earned its author both notoriety and...
Women, Race, and Class
Angela Y. Davis
Paper Book
'Black women were equal to their men in the oppression they suffered; they were their men's social equals within the slave community; and they resisted slavery with a passion equal to their men's' Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this seminal history of race,...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
Paper Book
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative...

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