In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development
10 best books like In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development (Carol Gilligan): Intercourse, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, Writing a Woman's Life, Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire, The Work of a Common Woman: The Collected Poetry of Judy Grahn, 1964-1977, Ethics of Sexual Difference
| Author | Andrea Dworkin |
| ISBN | 0465017525 |
Andrea Dworkin, once called “Feminism’s Malcolm X,” has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and activism of two generations of feminists. Now...
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
| Author | Susan Brownmiller |
| ISBN | 0449908208 |
"The most comprehensive study of rape ever offered to the public...It forces readers to take a fresh look at their own attitudes toward this devastating crime." -NEWSWEEK
As powerful and timely now as when it was first published, AGAINST OUR WILL stands as a unique document of the history of...
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
| Author | Adrienne Rich |
| ISBN | 0393312844 |
Motherhood as Experience and Institution.
"In order for all women to have real choices all along the line," Adrienne Rich writes, "we need fully to understand the power and powerlessness embodied in motherhood in patriarchal culture." Rich's investigation, in this influential and landmark...
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
| Author | Mary Daly |
| ISBN | 0807014133 |
This revised edition includes a New Intergalactic Introduction by the Author.
Mary Daly's New Intergalactic Introduction explores her process as a Crafty Pirate on the Journey of Writing Gyn/Ecology and reveals the autobiographical context of this "Thunderbolt of Rage" that she first...
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
| Author | Susan J. Douglas |
| ISBN | 0812925300 |
I'm sure that there are many negative reviews of this book, and I'm sure one of the main complaints is that the author can't be impartial because she's writing about her life but as a scholar. I have to say that that strikes me as total crap. This author makes no bones about her own experiences and weaves them...
This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation
| Author | Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
| ISBN | 0415936829 |
Over 20 years after the ground-breaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back challenged feminists to envision new forms of communities and practices, Gloria E. Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating have brought together an ambitious new collection of over 80 original contributions offering a bold new...
| Author | Carolyn G. Heilbrun |
"Astute and provocative....Blends the sophistication of recent feminist theory with highly textured details fro the lives of independent and ambitious women."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Drawing on the experience of celebrated women, from George Sand and Virginia Woolf to Dorothy...
Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire
| Author | Merri Lisa Johnson |
| ISBN | 1568581807 |
In Jane Sexes It Up, 20 young, progressive feminists reflect on the limitations they think are imposed by establishment feminism on their bodies and their behavior. In these essays, headed up by editor Merri Lisa Johnson’s “Generation X Does the Sex Wars,” the writers confess their seemingly...
| Author | Judy Grahn |
| ISBN | 0884470237 |
It hurts me to see that people aren't reading this any more. These are some of the best poems I know about tough, labor-worn working-class women: waitresses and cleaning women, motorcycle dykes and truck drivers. "She's a copperheaded waitress,/ tired and sharp-worded, she hides/ her bad brown tooth...
Ethics of Sexual Difference
| Author | Luce Irigaray |
| ISBN | 0801481457 |
"Who or what the other is, I never know. But the other who is forever unknowable is the one who differs from me sexually. This feeling of surprise, astonishment, and wonder in the face of the unknowable ought to be returned to its locus: that of sexual difference." Thus Luce Irigaray undertakes a searching...
Feminists Theorize the Political
| Author | Judith Butler |
| ISBN | 0415902746 |
At the risk of being caricaturish and simplistic:
The contributors to this volume (edited by the historian and theorist Joan W. Scott and the inimitable Judith Butler) share a broad concern: making coherent a committment to feminsim in the wake of both (a) poststructuralist interventions...
| Author | Eleanor Flexner |
| ISBN | 0674106539 |
Century of Struggle tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women's voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics.
"The book you...
| Author | Nancy J. Chodorow |
| ISBN | 0520221559 |
When this best-seller was published, it put the mother-daughter relationship and female psychology on the map. The Reproduction of Mothering was chosen by Contemporary Sociology as one of the ten most influential books of the past twenty-five years. With a new preface by the author, this updated...
It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
| Author | Amanda Marcotte |
| ISBN | 1580052266 |
For all of you humming “I Will Survive” while watching the political debacles gracing the evening news, when getting an earful from your Limbaugh-loving brother-in-law, or as you’re ducking into the bathroom to avoid the date espousing the wisdom of those Mars versus Venus books, this book...
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0415389585 |
According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks...
Toward a New Psychology of Women
| Author | Jean Baker Miller |
| ISBN | 0807029092 |
In the twenty years since its publication, this best-selling classic (which has sold more than 200,000 copies) has become famous for its groundbreaking demonstration of how sexual stereotypes restrict men's and women's psychological development. Toward a New Psychology of Women revolutionized...
The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity
| Author | Kim Chernin |
| ISBN | 0060925043 |
Pretty phenomenal read, fascinating for anybody in or near an eating disorder. Just recently finished this one and let me assure you, I had to read some sentences or paragraphs four or five times because I just needed to eat this shit up. NO PUN INTENDED. I absorbed this book and its messages. Very valuable...
Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender
| Author | Gloria Steinem |
| ISBN | 0671510525 |
I found Steinem's writing witty and thought-provoking. I appreciate both her frank honesty and her inclusive generosity. My favorite section BY FAR is "What if Freud were Phyllis?" in which she uses gender reversal as a tool to show how absurd some of his theories (and our current beliefs) are. The middle...
Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind
| Author | Mary Field Belenky |
| ISBN | 0465090990 |
Despite the progress of the women's movement, many women still feel silenced in their families and schools. This moving and insightful bestseller, based on in-depth interviews with 135 women, explains why they feel this way. Updated with a new preface exploring how the authors' collaboration and...
Women's Reality: An Emerging Female System in a White Male Society
| Author | Anne Wilson Schaef |
| ISBN | 0062507702 |
Chapter OneFitting in: The White Male System and Other Systems in Our Culture
The White Male System and the Way the World Isn't
When working with clients, therapists have traditionally taken one of two approaches: the "intrapsychic "or the "interpersonal." In the former, the therapist...
Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex
| Author | Carol Tavris |
| ISBN | 0671797492 |
When "man is the measure of all things," woman is forever trying to measure up. In this enlightening book, Carol Tavris unmasks the widespread but invisible custom -- pervasive in the social sciences, medicine, law, and history -- of treating men as the normal standard, women as abnormal. Tavris expands...
| Author | John Bowlby |
| ISBN | 0465005438 |
This first volume of John Bowlby's Attachment and Loss series examines the nature of the child's ties to the mother. Beginning with a discussion of instinctive behavior, its causation, functioning, and ontogeny, Bowlby proceeds to a theoretical formulation of attachment behavior how it develops,...
The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy
| Author | Allan G. Johnson |
| ISBN | 1592133835 |
Allan G. Johnson's The Gender Knot: Unraveling our Patriarchal Legacy, is a mixed bag. I'll start with the good, but first: the obvious. It's a book about the patriarchy written by a white man, and I am another white man writing a review of his work. Fun! His identity aside, Johnson does a good job of defining...
