Books that you would recommend to people interested in women's rights & feminism

[La Lioness Priyanka]

In fiction and non-fiction

Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini

Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics bybell hooks

and anything by Audre Lorde.

[yellerpup]

1. When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone

After I read it I was pissed off for about three years. Changed my thinking completely.

[niyad]

3. absolutely agreed

[prairierose]

7. Thanks, I was going to recommend that.....n/t

[niyad]

2. just a few of my favourites:

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"sisterhood is powerful" and "sisterhood is global" by robin morgan



"beyond power" by marilyn french

"the feminine mystique" betty friedan

"outrageous acts and everyday rebellions" gloria steinem

"the skeptical feminist" barbara g walker

and anything by dale spender, an excellent theorist

[kdmorris]

4. I LOVED the first two on your list

They were supposed to make a movie out of A Thousand Splendid Suns, but never did. I hope that's still in the works, because I'm really looking forward to it.

I'll have to look into the other two suggestions.

The Handmaid's Tale was scary in how much it mirrors what is going on in America sometimes. I didn't like the movie as much as the book and I've tried a couple of other books by Margaret Atwood that I wasn't able to get into.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. i have loved all her works. i find her style very interesting and unique

i think she calls it speculative fiction

[obamanut2012]

6. For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women, Barbara Ehrenreich

[MisterP]

8. a little Latin-America-biased, but:

"Hombres y Machos" by Alfredo Mirande goes beyond machismo and marianismo
Medea Benjamin, Joseph Collins, and Michael Scott, "No Free Lunch"
Roger N. Lancaster, "Life is Hard"
Ian Lumsden, "Machos, Maricones, and Gays"
Helen Safa, "The Myth of the Male Breadwinner"