WRAC Library - Feminist Theory

Bird, C. (1968). Born Female.

Abstract: "Thirty million working women in America have been systematically trained to accept inferior status with humility, to receive unequal pay for equal work, and to be penalized for having children."

Cole, B. (1986). All American Women: Lines That Divide, Ties That Bind.

Abstract: "...showing the vast range of attitudes, circumstances, hopes, fears, and struggles of a cross-section of women in the United States today."

Dector, M. (1972). The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation.

Abstract: "A scathing criticism of the major tenets of the Movement itself: housewife, male supremacy, wiving and breeding."

Dixon, M. (1980). The Future of Women.

Abstract: "Marlene Dixon's unique analysis of the superexploitation of women in modern capitalist society..."

Firestone, S. (1970). Notes From the Second Year: Women's Liberation

Abstract: Major writings of radical feminists.

Fuller, M. (1994). Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Other Writings.

Abstract: "Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), published to tremendous popular success and scurrilous criticism from the opponents of the nascent women's movement, sold out within a week."

Gray, E. B. (1982). Patriarchy as a Conceptual Trap.

Abstract: "We must try to identify and articulate the politics of the present [global] predicament. Perhaps to begin with, it can be reconceptualized in terms more conducive to political analysis."

Greer, G. (1970). The Female Eunuch.

Abstract: "A manual of self-help for women-kind. How to learn to stop nagging, crabbing and grabbing and make your own life."

Johnson, S. (1989). Wildfire: Igniting the She/volution.

Abstract: "Let's call upon the women who preceded us and those who will yet live to hold us safe as we love one another in the midst of unspeakable peril, and command the fierce powers of the earth and ocean, sky and fire, to be with each brave band of us as we become one more flame in the wildfire of woman spirit that is blazing through the universe, reshaping the proud and passionate order of things and reforging the human soul."

Lerner, G. (1993). The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy.

Abstract: "A pioneering study of the utmost importance which allows us to experience the tragedy and the triumph of women who attempted over the centuries to understand their situation and their history."

Mitchell, J., & Oakely, A. (1986). What is Feminism? A Reexamination.

Abstract: "The eleven contributors to What is Feminism? take a concept whose meaning we assume we know and reexamine it from every possible angle, enlarging the meaning of the word "feminism" in new and original ways."

Nebraska Sociological Feminist Collective. (1988). A Feminist Ethic for Social Science Research.

Abstract: Explores the objectification of wimmin; research by, for and about wimmin; feminism, language and ideas; and gatekeeping in employment, publication and research."

Rosser, S. V. (1992). Biology and Feminism: A Dynamic Interaction.

Abstract: "Rosser maintains that the modern scientific method, accepted as objective and factual, may instead be colored by the values and assumptions of the traditional male scientist."

Rossi, A. S. (1973). The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir.

Abstract: The essential works of feminism.
Rowbotham, S. (1973). Woman's Consciousness, Man's World.

Abstract: "It seems to me that the cultural and economic liberation of women is inseparable from the creation of a society in which all people no longer have their lives stolen from them, and in which the conditions of their production and reproduction will no longer be distorted or held back by the subordination of sex, race or class."

Tripp, M. (1974). Woman in the Year 2000.

Abstract: "...twenty-six writers and thinkers project what they believe will happen for women in the beginning of the 21st century."

Wollstonecraft, M. (1792). Vindication of the Right of Woman.

Abstract: "In an age of ferment, following the American and French Revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft took prevailing egalitarian principles and dared to apply them to women."

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