The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy
10 best books like The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy (Gerda Lerner): Valley of the Dolls, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Sexual Politics, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution, Scarlett, Sex Object: A Memoir, Leadership: In Turbulent Times, Sarah Churchill Duchess of Marlborough: The Queen's Favourite, The Crone: Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power
| Author | Jacqueline Susann |
| ISBN | 0802135196 |
Dolls: red or black; capsules or tablets; washed down with vodka or swallowed straight-for Anne, Neely, and Jennifer, it doesn't matter, as long as the pill bottle is within easy reach. These three women become best friends when they are young and struggling in New York City and then climb to the top of...
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0895941228 |
in college, in the late 80s and early 90s, i discovered that i had two aunts. this is one (and this is another). aunt Audre intimidated me at first. she was a stern, moody, melancholy woman who had lived a life of so many ups and downs. but as i got to know her, her innate gentleness became clear. this was a woman...
| Author | Kate Millett |
| ISBN | 0252068890 |
Revived Review to commemorate the passing of Kate Millett, Feminist critic, 1934-2017.
(Thanks to David Schaafsma for the gentle reminder.)
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Yes, it's Week Four of STRICTLY COME NOVELISTS
(note - this is the British version...
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...
Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution
| Author | Rachel Moran |
| ISBN | 0393351971 |
An astonishingly brave memoir of life in prostitution and its lingering influence on a woman’s psyche and life.
“The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran’s Paid For fuses the memoirist’s lived poignancy with the philosopher’s conceptual sophistication. The...
| Author | Alexandra Ripley |
| ISBN | 0446363251 |
The timeless tale continues... The most popular and beloved American historical novel ever written, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is unparalleled in its portrayal of men and women at once larger than life but as real as ourselves. Now bestselling writer Alexandra Ripley brings us back to...
Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential.
Sex Object explores the painful,...
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
| Author | Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| ISBN | 1476795924 |
Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader?
In Leadership, Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt,...
Sarah Churchill Duchess of Marlborough: The Queen's Favourite
| Author | Ophelia Field |
| ISBN | 0312314663 |
A brilliant new biographer presents an unforgettable portrait of Sarah Churchill, first Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744), the glamorous and controversial founder of the Spencer-Churchill dynasty that produced both Winston Churchill and Lady Diana Spencer.
Tied to Queen Anne by an...
| Author | Barbara G. Walker |
| ISBN | 0062509349 |
I applaud Walker for the extensive reading she's done in anthropology, archetype psychology and history, but I find her arguments too extreme. Even the most basic reciting of facts are put into a narrative that is extremely negative towards all men through all history. While I do agree that societies...
| Author | Riane Eisler |
| ISBN | 0062502832 |
Let me begin with a series of quotes that I (and science) do not necessarily agree with.
1. To maintain relations of domination and submission, the natural bonding of the give and take of sexual pleasure and love between the female and male halves of humanity has to be distorted. Where does this...
The Civilization of the Goddess
| Author | Marija Gimbutas |
| ISBN | 0062503685 |
I’ve read about this book in My European Family: The First 54,000 Years by Karin Bojs. Marija Gimbutas got a very ambiguous description there – of a woman brave but stubborn, of a great mind but also too fixated on one particular idea: that the pre-Indo-European Europe was strictly matriarchal and,...
| Author | Clarissa Pinkola Estés |
| ISBN | 0712672133 |
Dr. Estés asks, "Did you know, you were born as the first, and the last and the best and the only one of your kind, and that eccentricity is the first sign of giftedness? These are two of the crone truths I have to offer you." If you have any doubt, come join us at the fireside of The Dangerous Old Woman for the...
