• The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship - Marilyn Yalom

(Many of these texts are admittedly problematic, but it's important to know where we've come from in order to move forward.)

Introduction

• Manifesta - Jennifer Baumgardner
• Feminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics - Bell Hooks
• Full-Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti

More

• The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
• Gender Trouble - Judith Butler
• Backlash - Susan Faludi
• No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women - Estelle B. Freedman
• The Essential Feminist Reader edited - Estelle B. Freedman
• The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
• Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism - Daisy Hernandez
• Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism - Bell Hooks
• Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture - Ariel Levy
• Feminism Without Borders - Chandra Talpade Mohanty
• Cunt: A Declaration of Independence - Inga Muscio
• Reviving Ophelia - Mary Pipher
• Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes - Lillian Robinson
• The Spiral Dance - Starhawk
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolfe

Feminism and the Body

• Unbearable Weight - Susan Bordo
• FAT!SO? Because You Don’t Have to Apologize For Your Size - Marilyn Wann
• The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf

Feminists Do It Better

• Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape - Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti
• Our Bodies, Ourselves by Judy Norsigian and the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
• The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti

Other

• Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power - Audre Lorde
• Morales’s Radical Pleasure: Sex and the End of Victimhood - Aurora Levins
• Cultural Criticism & Transformation - Bell Hooks
• Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses

Combahee River Collective Statement - Chandra Talpade Mohanty

• A Question of Class - Dorothy Allison
• Judith Butler documentary
• We Are All Works in Progress - Leslie Feinberg
• Who is Your Mother?: Red Roots of White Feminism - Paula Gunn Allen
• The Social Organization of Masculinity - R.W. Connell
• Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power - Sandra Lee Bartky
• Guadalupe the Sex Goddess - Sandra Cisneros
• Ain’t I a Woman? - Sojourner Truth
• The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity - Susan Bordo