Books

HISTORY &  MEMOIRS   

Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975, Alice Echols (University of Minnesota Press, 1989).

Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women’s Liberation Movement, ed. by Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon (Basic Books, 2001).

The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation, ed. Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow (Three Rivers Press, 1998).

Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, ed. by Barbara J. Love (University of Illinois Press, 2006).

Freedom for Women: Forging the Women's Liberation Movement 1953-1970,  Carol Giardina  (U Florida Press 2010).

In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution, Susan Brownmiller (Dial Press,1999).

Living for the Revolution:  Black Feminist Organizations 1968-1980, Kimberly Springer (Duke U Press, 2005).

Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left, Sara M. Evans (Vintage, 1980).

Poems from the Women’s Movement, ed. by Honor Moore (Library of America, 2009).  

The Politics of Women's Liberation: A Case Study of an Emerging Social Movement and Its Relation to the Policy Process, Jo Freeman (David McKay, 1975).

Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader, ed. by Barbara Crow (NYU Press, 2000).

Separate Roads to Feminism:  Black, Chicana and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave, Benita Roth (Cambridge U Press, 2004).

Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation, Karla Jay (Basic Books, 2000).

The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy Look at White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement,  Winifred Breines   (Oxford U Press, 2006).

Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice by Loretta Ross, Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Elena R. Gutiérrez (South End Press, 2004).

The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America, Ruth Rosen (Viking, 2000).

LATER FEMINIST MOVEMENT

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women,  Susan Faludi (Crown Publishing, 1991).

Tidal Wave:  How Women Changed America at Century’s End,   Sara M. Evans (New Press, 2004).

GROUNDBREAKERS

Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, Susan Brownmiller (Martin Secker & Warburg, 1975).

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, Shulamith Firestone (William Morrow & Co, 1970).

The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (W.W. Norton, 1963).

Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Bodies, Ourselves (New England Free Press, 1970).

Sappho Was A Right-On Woman: A Liberated View Of Lesbianism, Sidney Abbott (Madison Books, 1972).

The Second Sex, Simone De Beauvoir (Vintage, 1953).

Sexual Politics, Kate Millett (Doubleday, 1970).

Sisterhood is Powerful, ed. by Robin Morgan (Random House, 1970).

COLLECTIONS

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, ed. by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa (Persephone Press, 1981)

Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, Susan J.Douglas (Crown Publishers, 1994).