Recommendations for well-written feminist books

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Inspired by the thread recommending books about Invisible Women to op's,s teenage daughter- I have realised I really would like to read more books with a real feminist emphasis. Can fiction /non fiction and easy reads or heavy going, provided they are well written and thought provoking

So I would love some recommendations

Apologies for typos/poor writing in my own post! It's hot and my phone is being weird

Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac by Joan Smith is an accessible rebuttal to the male takes on the women of Imperial Rome

'The second sex' by Simone de Beauvoir.

Women of Troy, Silence of the Girls and The Voyage Home by Pat Barker; the Trojan War from the perspective of women involved.

Circe by Madeline Miller; another Greek myths based novel

The Wolf Den trilogy by Elodi Harper; three novels about a woman who is a prostitute in Pompeii

I seem to have read a lot of ancient Roman/Greek based things recently!

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution - Louise Perry. Must read!

Sister in Law: Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men by Harriet Wistrich.
Also this one, if you can find a second hand copy: Growing Up Underground by Jane Alpert.

Thank you this is a lovely varied mix so far!

Famous classics from the recent past are The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan and any by Gloria Steinem.

If it's still available, Mrs America on BBC was a fantastic watch dramatising events around both women and their arch nemesis.

The Dorling Kindersley reference book on feminism in the Big Ideas Explained Simply series will also give you lots of leads. They normally have it in Waterstone's.

As an economist, I liked "Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?" and 'Mother of Invention" by the same author.

“Woman in the photograph” - fiction which incorporates several late twentieth century feminist events, such as Greenham common. Really good book.

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Motherland: a feminist history of modern Russia from revolution to autocracy by Julia Ioffe

The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer.

More recent, "Blue sisters" by Coco Mellors. Anything by Anne Enright, Anne Tyler, Elizabeth Strout, Rose Tremain, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Claire Fuller (Bitter Oranges) - all contemporary women writers, not overtly "feminist" but centring women's lives and experiences. Also of course Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale - more relevant than ever!) and if you wanted to stray into drama, why not Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls"
(Sorry, got a bit carried away, you touched on my passion for women writers!)

No, no need to apologise! I feel like I need to explore this more and I am so grateful for suggestions