29 Best Feminist Books
Goal: Find the best Feminist books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best feminist books" and study the top 5+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
29 Best Feminist Books
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A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
The Golden Notebook
A Novel
by Doris Lessing
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
This Bridge Called My Back
Writings by Radical Women of Color
by Cherríe Moraga
Asking For It
by Louise O'Neill
Colonize This!
Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
by Daisy Hernández
Dialectic of the Flesh
by Roz Kaveney
Down Girl
The Logic of Misogyny
by Kate Manne
Fat Is A Feminist Issue
by Susie Orbach
Feminism Is for Everybody
Passionate Politics
by bell hooks
Furious Thing
by Jenny Downham
Gender Outlaw
On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
by Kate Bornstein
Gender Trouble
Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
by Judith Butler
Headscarves and Hymens
Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
by Mona Eltahawy
On Intersectionality
Essential Writings
by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
The Madwoman in the Attic
The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
by Sandra M. Gilbert
The World's Wife
Poems
by Carol Ann Duffy
Things a Bright Girl Can Do
by Sally Nicholls
We Should All Be Feminists
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Women, Culture & Politics
by Angela Y. Davis
Sources
- 1
10 books every feminist should read
harpersbazaar.com
- 2
40 of the best feminist books you should be reading - Pan Macmillan
panmacmillan.com
- 3
40 Of The Best Feminist Books: From Classics To Fiction | Book Riot
bookriot.com
- 4
50 Best Feminist Books to Dismantle the Patriarchy | Reedsy Discovery
reedsy.com
- 5
15 Best Feminist Books - Best Books About Feminism
esquire.com
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