Recommendations, reviews, or critiques? Let me know; it's always good to expand my mind through shared knowledge.
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings from Radical Women of Color, Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga
- Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood
- James Baldwin: Collected Essays, James Baldwin
- Our Bodies, Ourselves, Boston Women's Health Book Collective
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
- Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
- Stonewall: the Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, David Carter
- Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls, ed. Laura Harris and Elizabeth Crocker
- Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, ed. Daisy Hernández and Bushra Rehman
- Built to Win: the Female Athlete as Cultural Icon, Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin
- Lady Sings the Blues, Billie Holiday with William Dufty
- the Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction, ed. Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle
- Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, bell hooks
- Feminist Theory: from Margin to Center, bell hooks
- Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings, Zora Neale Hurston
- Bitchfest: 10 Years of Cultural Criticism, ed. Lisa Jarvis and Andi Zeisler
- Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace, Serene Jones [Note: I don't currently self-identify as a Christian, but rather am intrigued at proposed intersections between these two fields of thought.]
- the Winona LaDuke Reader: a Collection of Essential Writings, Winona LaDuke
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James Loewen
- Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde
- Sexual Politics, Kate Millett
- Feminism without Borders, Chandra Talpede Mohanty
- Sisterhood Is Powerful, ed. Robin Morgan
- Feminist Frontiers, ed. Laurel Richardson, Verta Taylor, and Nancy Whittier
- the Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class, David Roediger
- the Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom, Barbara Smith
- Sleeping Beauty, Indeed, ed. JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde
- Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England, ed. Jack Zipes
- Gender Trouble, Judith Butler
- the Dialectic of Sex, Shulamith Firestone
- Female Masculinity, J. Halberstam
- Lover, Bertha Harris
- Brave New World, Aldoux Huxley
- the Female Man, Joanna Russ
- a People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
- the Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
- White like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, Tim Wise
what a collection! We read a little of Zora Neal Hurston's writing in my american studies class, and it was very good - i recommend it.
ReplyDeletealso, I would steer clear of the "lies my teacher told me" book if I were you. I know the type, and they tend not to be worth the time. if you want to delve into american history with worthwhile books, I have a pretty good selection of recommendations.
-Kevin :)
hey, i have to read brave new world for senior AP english! cool coincidence. i have no suggestions that i think you'd like.
ReplyDeletei LOVE Margaret Atwood. I only read one of her books but it was so well-crafted, i should get around to reading more by her. Sadly, my advanced screenwriting class at USC keeps me very, very busy
ReplyDelete- Brad