Books on Feminism

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AntiqueBooks · 21/11/2025 22:10

Hello

Please could you recommend your favourites? Classic ones as well as more modern.

Thanks

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Scout2016 · 24/11/2025 10:05

Another vote for Invisible Women

One of Helena Kennedy's legal ones - Eve was Framed or the follow up, which covers a lot of similar ground but is more up to date (easy to read though, don'tbe put off it's not complex legal stuff). Or more recently there is Harriet Wisterich's Sisters In Law.

Home Grown by Joan Smith.
Misogynies is good too but dated in terms of references - talks about some figures who were then in the public eye. Worth reading just for the appalling police handing of the discussion of the Peter Sutcliffe "Yorkshire Ripper" in which their misogyny caused significant failures and malpractice.

CrossPurposes · 22/11/2025 19:00

The Rosalind Miles book is also called The Women's History of the World.

TinaBarrow · 22/11/2025 17:39

Sexual Politics by Kate Millet
Gyn-ecology by Mary Daly
Misogynies by Joan Smith
Gender Hurts by Sheila Jeffreys

DworkinWasRight · 22/11/2025 16:52

Man Made Language by Dale Spender.

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AntiqueBooks · 22/11/2025 15:55

Thank you all this is super helpful! I will be ploughing through these over winter!

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GreenFriedTomato · 22/11/2025 04:21

Sexed - A history of British Feminism

Susanna Rustin

MassiveWordSalad · 21/11/2025 23:30

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Woman Hating by Andrea Dworkin
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
The Gate to Women’s Country by Sherri Tepper
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Who Cooked the Last Supper?, Rosalind Miles
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker
Circe, Madeline Miller
I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman

MrsTerryPratchett · 21/11/2025 22:39

Chimamanda Ngozi. Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Great digestible book.

KateBAnd3 · 21/11/2025 22:37

Helen Lewis’s book is excellent - Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

TweeBee · 21/11/2025 22:31

I really like Laura Bates’ books.

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