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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge Classics)
Judith Butler
Routledge, 2006
Fascinating Ideas, Infuriating Writing Style
Readers who are willing to tolerate labyrinthine sentences and brain-cramping scholarly vocabulary and who already have a working understanding of Freud, Lacan, Foucault, and deconstruction will find in Butler a challenging, highly stimulating theorist of sex, gender, ...
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What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self
Ellyn Spragins
Broadway, 2008
Inspiring
Loved reading these letters and learning about the lives of those who wrote them! Excellent and inspiring!
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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Naomi Wolf
Harper Perennial, 2002
Truer today than when it was written
What makes this book so important is that it is just as, if not more, relevant today than it was in 1991. Women continue to be judged more by our appearances than actions, and while there do seem to be a few examples of progress (like Queen Latifah showing that beauty ...
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The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine (Plus)
Sue Monk Kidd
HarperOne, 2007
A voice from the wilderness
Sue Monk Kidd's journey resonates for me as I have long struggled with the way we tend to ignore or excuse the masculine priority that surrounds women's lives. Ms. Monk explores and ennunciates the "stacked deck" of everything from language and religion to the ...
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Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, ...
Anita A. Johnston PhD.
Gurze Books, 2000
the best
The best book written on this subject. The author uses a different approach than other books I have read and the fables make the book a more interesting read. Very much recommended.
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A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman
Joan Anderson
Broadway, 2000
A good read if you're in transition
Joan Anderson wrote this book to help herself out of a tough life transition. Along the way, she learned, and she teaches us, so much about what we seek in life, how to live with ourselves before trying to live to please others. She shares so much, "A Year by the Sea" ...
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In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development
Carol Gilligan
Harvard University Press, 1993
In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development
One of the most important books in the psychology of women -essential reading
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I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman (Vintage)
Nora Ephron
Vintage, 2008
I Feel Bad About My Neck: and other thoughts on being a woman
Excellent book! I got the book and the audio. I started to read the book and it seemed a little slow in capturing my interest... but I was going to read it any way. Then I had to travel so I took the audio... And let me tell you... it was wondrful. You just have to ...
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Loving Frank: A Novel
Nancy Horan
Ballantine Books, 2008
Stunning
Veteran journalist Nancy Horan spent seven years preparing her debut novel, "Loving Frank," for publication.
Maybe all first-time novelists should follow Horan's formula because she hit this one out of the park.
It's been a long time since I read such luminous ...
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The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan
W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
Groundbreaking and inspiring
I am a 23 yr. old woman reading a book that was written in 1963 for and about women. I thought this book would help me learn more about women's history, but it was a huge eye-opener and a complete inspiration. The chapters in this book still describe me as a young ...
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Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism
Crossway Books, 2006
Very good book that refutes the errors of evangelical feminism
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood is a much needed response to the 20 and 21st century evangelical church disregarding the clear commands of Scripture. It seems as though a whole cottage industry of Evangelical feminist publications has been established to try ...
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The Red Tent
Anita Diamant
Picador, 1998
The Red Tent
The Red Tent is one of the best books I have ever read! It was plausible, and it taught me a lot about the women of this period. I think every woman should read it. I enjoyed it so much, I bought my step-daughter a copy so she could read it. Everyone I know who has ...
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The Heroine's Journey
Maureen Murdock
Shambhala, 1990
an enlightening guide
Back in the 80's one of my favorite books on the inner journey was Joseph Campbell's Hero With a Thousand Faces. The problem with it, though, was that it was written from a male perspective. With The Heroine's Journey I am now at the end of my search for a book on the ...
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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
bell hooks
Routledge, 1994
Extremely Good Segue to Freire
This is the third of three books on liberation pedagogy that I picked up, the other two being Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage (Critical Perspectives Series) and Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
This book is a collection of essays by a woman of ...
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Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories
Katha Pollitt
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
Astonishingly brave, clear-eyed and illuminating.
Katha Pollitt has long been known for her sharp wit and her rare ability to take an issue that confounds most social and political commentators and get right to the heart of it. I have always felt a little awestruck at her talents as an essayist, but this book ...
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