In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution
10 best books like In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution (Susan Brownmiller): Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement, Jailed for Freedom: American Women Win the Vote, Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild, Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation, Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion
Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant
| Author | Andrea Dworkin |
| ISBN | 0826494420 |
Always innovative, often provocative, and frequently polarizing, Andrea Dworkin has carved out a unique position as one of the women's movement's most influential figures, from the early days of consciousness-raising to the "post-feminist" present. Heartbreak reveals for the first time the...
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
| Author | Catharine A. MacKinnon |
| ISBN | 0674896467 |
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State presents Catharine MacKinnon's powerful analysis of politics, sexuality, and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centered on sexual subordination and...
Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement
| Author | Robin Morgan |
| ISBN | 0394705394 |
Here is the first comprehensive collection of writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, including articles, poems, photo-graphs, and manifestos. This anthology captures the range of problems being considered by the new feminists, and the variety of approaches to analysis and action. Over...
Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975
| Author | Alice Echols |
| ISBN | 0816617872 |
It's sadly common for present-day feminists to paint second-wave feminism as a monolithic movement, and to reduce second-wave feminism, in all its complexity, to a series of failures and examples of shortsightedness (though, to be fair, Echols points out that radical feminists of the second wave...
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...
Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement
Today's women are so comfortable in their authority that they often forget to credit the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and '70s for paving the way—from the kitchen to the boardroom, from sexual harassment to self-defense, from cheerleading on the sidelines to playing center on the team....
| Author | Doris Stevens |
| ISBN | 0939165252 |
A firsthand account of the National Woman’s Party, which organized and fought a fierce battle for passage of the 19th Amendment. The suffragists endured hunger strikes, forced feedings, and jail terms. First written in 1920 by Doris Stevens, this version was edited by Carol O’Hare. Includes...
Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
| Author | Deborah Siegel |
| ISBN | 1403973180 |
Contrary to clichés about the end of feminism, Deborah Siegel argues that younger women are reliving the battles of its past, and reinventing it--with a vengeance. From feminist blogging to the popularity of the WNBA, girl culture is on the rise. A lively and compelling look back at the framing of one...
Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation
| Author | Barbara Findlen |
| ISBN | 1878067613 |
this was one of the best, most inclusive feminist anthologies i’ve come across! i have been feeling kind of isolated lately, because i have been feeling like every feminist/pro-woman thing i say gets challenged, debated, mocked, etc, even when i’m not looking for a debate. reading this book basically...
Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion
| Author | Karen E. Bender |
| ISBN | 1596920637 |
A moving collection of personal essays about the real, human experiences behind the highly politicized issue of reproductive choice.
At a time when a woman’s most complex decisions have been reduced to political rhetoric and impersonal theory, and political debate has been hijacked...
| Author | Cynthia Enloe |
| ISBN | 0520229126 |
This radical analysis of globalization reveals the crucial role of women in international politics today. Cynthia Enloe pulls back the curtain on the familiar scenes—governments promoting tourism, companies moving their factories overseas, soldiers serving on foreign soil—and shows that...
| Author | Vivien Labaton |
| ISBN | 0385721021 |
Young feminists today are becoming activists on behalf of many causes beyond the classic—and indispensable--feminist ones of reproductive rights and equal pay for equal work. In The Fire This Time, Dawn Martin, one of four founders of The Third Wave Foundation--a multiracial, multi-issue, and...
| Author | Karen Green |
| ISBN | 0312155352 |
In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the production of zines.
On the forefront of this cut-and-paste revolution have been those zines made specifically by and for young women. The words and images that have come to define many young women's lives have long been overlooked and under...
| Author | Karla Jay |
| ISBN | 0465083668 |
Karla Jay's memoir of an age whose tumultuous social and political movements fundamentally reshaped American culture takes readers from her early days in the 1968 Columbia University student riots to her post-college involvement in New York radical women's groups and the New York Gay Liberation...
| Author | Ellen Chesler |
| ISBN | 1416540768 |
Ellen Chesler's 1992 biography of Margaret Sanger is acclaimed as definitive and is widely used and cited by scholars and activists alike in the fields of women's health and reproductive rights.
Chesler's substantive new Afterword considers how Sanger's life and work hold up in light of...
Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection Between Queer and Feminist Theory
| Author | Mimi Marinucci |
| ISBN | 1848134754 |
Feminism is Queer is an introduction to the intimately related disciplines of gender and queer theory. While guiding the reader through complex theory, the author develops the original position of “queer feminism,” which presents queer theory as continuous with feminist theory. While there...
Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism
| Author | Katha Pollitt |
| ISBN | 0679762787 |
It's not that Katha Pollitt is a bad writer, or even that she's wrong about most of the issues. What makes her writing so hard to take is the sense of entitlement -- the rich white college girl who has all the answers.
Read the essay on Lorena Bobbitt. (Remember her? The girl who chopped off her husband's...
Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature
| Author | Dorothy Allison |
| ISBN | 1563410443 |
A fantastic collection of essays, autobiographical narratives, and performance pieces, including updated versions of earlier groundbreaking material with provocative new work by the lifelong feminist activist, controversial sex radical, and Southern expatriate writer with an attitude who...
Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America
| Author | Jeanne Flavin |
| ISBN | 0814727549 |
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Sex and Gender Section
The Real Issue behind the Abortion Debate
An op-ed by Jeanne Flavin in the San Francisco Chronicle
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The intense policing of women's...
An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
| Author | Lillian Hellman |
| ISBN | 0316352853 |
Caustic, brilliant, uncompromising, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can "take the tops off bottles with her teeth". Her career as a playwright began in 1938 with The Children's Hour, the first of seven plays that would bring her international attention and praise. Thirty years...
Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism
| Author | Aileen Moreton-Robinson |
| ISBN | 0702231347 |
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Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
| Author | Janet Malcolm |
| ISBN | 0300125518 |
"How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography, criticism, and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is modernist master Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, the "worker bee" who ministered...
Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
In our culture, porn makes the man. So argues Robert Jensen in Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity. Jensen’s treatise begins with a simple demand: “Be a man.” It ends with a defiant response: “I chose to struggle to be a human being.” The journey from masculinity to humanity...
Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975
| Author | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |
| ISBN | 0872863905 |
In 1968, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz became a founding member of the early women's liberation movement. Along with a small group of dedicated women, she produced the seminal journal series, No More Fun and Games. Her group, Cell 16 occupied the radical fringe of the growing movement, considered too outspoken...
