On this day: Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat
December 01, 2023
The feminist movement and the Equal Rights Amendment both have a long and storied (and often fraught) history in this country. We've curated our must-read classics on these subjects, plus some great new books that we think you'll really love!
Add some of these books to your TBR pile, or start a feminist book club and make sure to add us to the invite list! We'll bring the wine.
- Equal Means Equal by Jessica Neuwirth (co-founder of the ERA Coalition!)
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
- Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
- White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck
- Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm
- The Vagina Monologues by Even Ensler
- In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis
- the witch doesn't burn in this one by Amanda Lovelace
- More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) by Elaine Welteroth
- The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
- Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
- Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
