Feminist Reading List

Here is a list of Feminist literature compiled by society members. Please send any suggestions to annaridley@aol.com or comment below.

• Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex
• David Burrows, Jemima Stehli
• Laura Cottingham, Seeing Through The Seventies, Essays on Feminism and Art
• Cordelia Fine, The Real Science Behind Sex Differences: Delusions of Gender
• Guerrilla Girls, The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art
• Thomas Kellein, Vanessa Beecroft Photographs, Films, Drawings
• Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs
• Sara Marcus, Girls To The Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
• Nadine Monem, Riot Grrrl: Revolution Grrrl Style Now!
• Caitlin Moran, How To Be A Woman
• Nina Power, One Dimensional Woman
• Helena Reckitt, Art and Feminism
• Germaine Greer, The Female Eunich
• Maralyn French, The Woman's Room
• Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
• Lynda Nead, Female Nude
• Rachel Holmes, Fifty Shades of Feminism
• Laurie Penny, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism
• Naomi Wol, Vagina
• Mira Schor, Wet
• Lauren Zuniga, The Smell of Good Mud

Feminist Textbook Reading

• Lois Tyson, Feminist Criticism, pp. 83-133.
• Rivkin and Ryan, Introduction: Feminist Paradigms, in Rivkin and Ryan, pp. 765-9.
• Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic, in Rivkin and Ryan, pp. 812-25 

Short Stories found in Penguin british short stories (very cheap second hand)

• Doris Lessing, To Room Nineteen, in Bradbury (ed.)
• Fay Weldon, Weekend, in Bradbury (ed.)
• Kazuo Ishiguro, A Family Supper, in Bradbury (ed.)
• Angela Carter, Flesh and the Mirror, in Bradbury (ed.)

Feminism and Queer Criticism, Textbook Reading

• Lois Tyson, Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Criticism, pp. 317-57 
• Judith Butler, Performative Acts and Gender Constitution, in Rivkin and Ryan, pp. 900-11