The Top 10 Feminist Books
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Guardian, 10 Books
Gender-based inequality remains the greatest global injustice and the struggle against it spans millennia and continents. These books make us more impatient for change, but they may also be turned to in dark hours when it feels change might never come. Feminism is no impulse or outcome of modernity. As these books show, it has been around for centuries. We don't need to re-invent the wheel, or number what "wave" we are now riding; we need to harness an atomic rocket to it.
By Rachel Holmes, a cultural historian whose work combines meticulous biographical research with an ability to bring the lives and times of her 19th-century subjects vividly to life. Eleanor Marx: A Life (2014) and The Hottentot Venus: The life and death of Saartjie Baartman (2008) is some of her published works.
This list was originally published in 2014 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2593 | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? | Jeanette Winterson | 2011 | British | English | |
| 6454 | Fat Is A Feminist Issue | Susie Orbach | 1978 | British | English | |
| 21 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 1857 | French | French | |
| 773 | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1792 | British | English | |
| 17008 | Playing In The Dark | Toni Morrison | 1992 | American | English | |
| 827 | Fear of Flying | Erica Jong | 1973 | American | English | |
| 17008 | The Meaning Of Freedom | Angela Davis | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17008 | The Poetry Of Arab Women | Nathalie Handal | 2001 | Multiple | English | |
| 15786 | The Intelligent Woman's Guide To Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism & Fascism | George Bernard Shaw | 1928 | British | English | |
| 15786 | Saint Joan Of Arc | Vita Sackville-West | 1936 | British | English |