Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century
10 best books like Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century (Boston Women's Health Book Collective): Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing, Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year (Wise Woman Herbal Series, #1), The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction, How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex, Whores and Other Feminists, For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women
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...
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...
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
| Author | Susan Faludi |
| ISBN | 0307345424 |
Skillfully Probing the Attack on Women’s Rights
“Opting-out,” “security moms,” “desperate housewives,” “the new baby fever”—the trend stories of 2006 leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly...
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
| Author | Jennifer Baumgardner |
| ISBN | 0374526222 |
A powerful indictment from within of the current state of feminism, and a passionate call to arms
From Lilith Fair to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the WNBA--everywhere you look, girl culture is clearly ascendant. Young women live by feminism's goals, yet feminism itself is undeniably at a crossroads;...
| Author | Christiane Northrup |
| ISBN | 0553384104 |
When it was first published in 1994, Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom quickly became an international bestseller, and for the past fifteen years it has remained the veritable bible of women’s health. Now, in this revised and updated edition, world-renowned and much-beloved women’s health...
| Author | Susun S. Weed |
| ISBN | 0961462000 |
Simple, safe remedies for pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, and newborns.
Now in its 24th printing. A confirmed favorite with pregnant women, midwives, childbirth educators, and new parents. Packed with clear, comforting, and superbly helpful information.
Beginning with...
The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
| Author | Rachel P. Maines |
| ISBN | 0801866464 |
From the time of Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging female patients to orgasm was a staple of medical practice among Western physicians in the treatment of "hysteria," an ailment once considered both common and chronic in women. Doctors loathed this time-consuming procedure and for centuries...
| Author | Cristina Page |
| ISBN | 0465054900 |
this book made me really angry. like gripping the book so hard that my knuckles turned red angry. so i think page accomplished her goal. it's a look at the measures that the anti-choice movement goes to to prevent access to contraceptives. of course, there is a talk on abortion but it's main focus is birth...
Whores and Other Feminists
| Author | Jill Nagle |
| ISBN | 0415918227 |
Whores and Other Feminists is the first volume to examine sex work and the sex industry through the eyes of self-identified feminist sex workers - strippers, prostitutes, porn writers, producers and performers, dominatrices - and their allies. Comprising a range of voices from both within and outside...
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women
| Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| ISBN | 1400078008 |
First published in 1978, this classic history, now revised and updated, brilliantly exposes the constraints imposed on women in the name of science. Authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have never lost faith in science itself, but insist that we hold those who interpret it to higher standards....
| Author | Marcelle Karp |
| ISBN | 0140277749 |
Both a literary magazine and a chronicle of girl culture, Bust was born in 1993. With contributors who are funny, fierce, and too smart to be anything but feminist, Bust is the original grrrl zine, with a base of loyal female fans--all those women who know that Glamour is garbage, Vogue is vapid, and Cosmo...
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...
| Author | Shere Hite |
| ISBN | 0440136903 |
Rejecting the very idea of penetration as the sole definition of “real sex,” Shere Hite’s The Hite Report on Female Sexuality (1976) sought to understand how individuals regard sexual experience and the meaning it holds for them, using the clitoris as her critical lens. “Its not specifically...
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...
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 | Laura Kaplan |
| ISBN | 0226424219 |
"In the four years before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, most women determined to get abortions had to subject themselves to the power of illegal, unregulated abortionists...But a Chicago woman who happened to stumble across a secret organization code-named 'Jane' had an alternative....
When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973
| Author | Leslie J. Reagan |
| ISBN | 0520216571 |
As we approach the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, it's crucial to look back to the time when abortion was illegal. Leslie Reagan traces the practice and policing of abortion, which although illegal was nonetheless widely available, but always with threats for both doctor and patient. In a time when...
| Author | Esther Drill |
| ISBN | 0671041576 |
Deal With It! offers a whole new approach for dealing with your life as a girl. It's a resource to help you learn about, laugh about, and figure out the stuff you go through on your way through life. It won't tell you what to do, because you'll need to decide that for yourself. But whether you're wondering...
| 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 | Ophira Edut |
| ISBN | 1580051081 |
Pick up a magazine, turn on the TV, and you'll find few women who haven't been fried, dyed, plucked, or tucked. In short, you'll see no body outlaws.
The writers in this groundbreaking anthology reveal a world where bodies come in all their many-splendored shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. In...
| Author | Melody Berger |
| ISBN | 1580051820 |
We Don’t Need Another Wave is a critique of the ways in which feminism is discussed in the mainstream media. Today’s young feminists are wary of being labeled. They are media-savvy, hyper-aware of being categorized and marginalized, and are here to tell the world that feminists are feminists —...
| 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...
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
| Author | Susan Bordo |
| ISBN | 0520240545 |
"Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the body—weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more—in...
Fight Like a Girl: How to Be a Fearless Feminist
| Author | Megan Seely |
| ISBN | 0814740014 |
View the Author's website! Seely, the youngest elected president of California's chapter of the National Organization for Women, combines her own story of third-wave feminism with an overview of the feminist movement and words to guide others. Third-wave feminists are aware of both the victories...
Bitches, Bimbos, and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes
| Author | Guerrilla Girls |
| ISBN | 0142001015 |
Whatever life a woman leads, from biker chick to society girl, there's a stereotype she'll have to live down. The Guerrilla Girls, notorious for their outrageous take on women's issues, now tackle the maze of stereotypes that follow women from cradle to grave. With subversive use of information—and...
