Women's Rights Literature
Mary Wollstoncraft - A Vindication on the Rights of Women (1791)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
Sarah Grand - The Beth Book (1898)
Kate Chopin - The Awakening (1899)
Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own (1929)
Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex (1949)
Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook (1962)
Betty Friedan - The Femine Mystique (1963)
Germaine Greer - The Female Eunich (1970)
Kate Millet - Sexual Politics (1970)
Shilamith Firestone - The Dialect of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970)
Morgan, Robin (ed) - Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the
Women's Liberation Movement (1970)
Juliett Mitchell - Women's Estate (1971)
Sheila Rowbotham - Women's Consciousness, Man's World (1973)
Patricia Meyer Spacks - The Female Imagination (1975)
Susan Brownmiller - Against our Will (1975)
Anne Summers - Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in
Australia (1975)
Adrienne Rich - Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1976)
Elaine Showalter - A Literature of Their Own (1977)
Gilbert & Guber - The Madwoman in the Attic (1979)
Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber (1979)
bell hooks - Ain't I a Woman? (1981)
Carole Gilligan - In a Different Voice (1982)
Dale Spender - Women of Ideas (And What Men Have Done To Them) (1982)
Gloria Steinem - Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)
Dale Spender (ed) - Feminist Theorists: Three Centuries of Key Women Thinkers (1983)
Mary Daly - Pure Lust (1984)
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Andrea Dworkin - Intercourse (1987)
Judith Butler - Gender Trouble:Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Thinking
Gender) (1989)
Nancy Friday - My Mother, My Self (1990)
Naomi Wolf - The Beauty Myth (1991)
Susan Faludi - Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (1991)
Gloria Steinem - Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem (1992)
Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the
Wild Women Archetyte (1992)
Paula Rothenberg - Race, Class and Gender in the US (1992)
Susan Bordo - Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body (1993)
Naomi Wolf - Fire With Fire: The New Female Power and How it will Change the 21st
Century (1993)
Kate Bornstein - Gender Outlaw (1994)
Christina Hoff Summers - Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women
(1995)
Barbara Findlen (ed) - Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation (1995)
Margartet Wertheim - Pythagorus' Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars (1995)
Eva Cox - Leading Women: Tactics for making the Difference (1996)
Julie Mitchell and Ann Oakely (eds) - Who's Afraid of Feminism: Seeing Through the
Backlash (1997)
Germaine Greer - The Whole Woman (1999)
Susan Faludi - Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man (1999)
bell hooks - Feminism is for Everyone: Passionate Politics - (2000)
Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards - MainfestA: Young WOmen, Feminism and
the Future (2000)
Baxandall & Gordon (ed) - Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation
Movement (2000)
Anne Summers - The End of Equality: Work, Babies and Women's Choices in 21st
Australia (2003)
Astrid Henry - Not my Mother's Sister: Generational Conflict and Third Wave Feminism
(2004)
Baumgardner & Richards - Grasroots: A Field Guide fr Reminist Activism (2005)
Ariel Levy - Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (2005)
Maureen Dowd - Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide (2005)
Ellen Bravo - Taking on the Big Boys or Why Feminism is Good for Familes, Business
and the Nation (2007)
Recommended Non-Fiction re Mother's Rights, including anthologies and
'Momoir':
(Australian titles marked with an *)
The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined
Women - Susan Douglas J. and Meredith W. Michaels
The Mother of All Myths: How Society Moulds and Constrains Mothers - Aminatta
Forna
The Mask of Motherhood: How Mothering Changes Everything and Why We Pretend It
Doesn't - Susan Maushart*
Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood - Moyra Davey (ed)
Misconceptions: Truth, Lies and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood - Naomi
Wolf
The Maternal is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social
Change - Shari MacDonald Strong (ed)
The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least
Valued - Ann Crittenden
Maternal Theory: Essential Readings - Andrea O'Reilly (ed)
Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety - Judith Warner
Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can
Do About It - Sue Palmer
Taking Parenting Public: The Case for a New Social Movement - Sylvia Ann Hewlett,
Nancy Ranking, Cornel West (eds)
A Potent Spell - Janna Malamud Smith
The Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother - Shari L. Thurer
The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right - Alexis Jetter, Annelise
Orleck, Diana Taylor (eds)
The Great Feminist Denial - Monica Dux, Zora Simic*
The Divided Heart: Art and Motherhood - Rachel Power*
Motherhood: How Should We Care For Our Children? - Anne Manne*
Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It - Andrea J. Buchanan
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution - Adrienne Rich
A Better Woman - Susan Johnson*
Mommies Who Drink: Sex, Drugs and Other Distant Memories: True Tales of Modern
Motherhood - Brett Paesel
The Big Rumpus - Ayun Halliday
The Esential Hip Mama - Ariel Gore (ed)
Mother Journeys: Feminists Write About Mothering - Reddy, Roth & Sheldon (eds)
Naked Motherhood: Shattering Illusions and Sharing turths - Wendy LeBlanc*
See also MOTHERS Book Bag for Recommendations
Mothers in Fiction:
Nursery Crimes: A Mommy Track Mystery - Ayelet Waldman
I Don't Know How She Does It - Alison Pearson
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Schriver
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
Dying for Cake - Louise Limerick*
The Love Child - Fran Cusworth*
Safety - Tegan Bennet Daylight*
Arlington Park - Rachel Cusk