Feminist Manifestos
Feminist Manifestos

Author: Penny A. Weiss

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 716

ISBN-13: 147983730X

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This book is a collection of 150 documents from feminist organizations and gatherings in over 50 countries over the course of three centuries. The manifestos are shown to contain feminist theory and recommend actions for change, and also to expand our very conceptions of feminist thought and activism. Covering issues from political participation, education, religion and work to reproduction, violence, racism and environmentalism, the manifestos challenge definitions of gender and feminist movements.

The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique

Author: Betty Friedan

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2001-09-17

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 0393322572

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The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.

SCUM Manifesto
SCUM Manifesto

Author: Valerie Solanas

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 1784784419

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Classic radical feminist statement from the woman who shot Andy Warhol “Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.” Outrageous and violent, SCUM Manifesto was widely lambasted when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published the book just before she became a notorious household name and was confined to a mental institution. But for all its vitriol, it is impossible to dismiss as the mere rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact, the work has proved prescient, not only as a radical feminist analysis light years ahead of its time—predicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against underrepresentation in the arts—but also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman. In this edition, philosopher Avital Ronell’s introduction reconsiders the evocative exuberance of this infamous text.

The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique

Author: Betty Friedan

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780140136555

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This novel was the major inspiration for the Women's Movement and continues to be a powerful and illuminating analysis of the position of women in Western society___

Le Deuxième Sexe
Le Deuxième Sexe

Author: Simone de Beauvoir

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 791

ISBN-13: 0679724516

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The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.

The Female Man
The Female Man

Author: Joanna Russ

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1504050932

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Four alternate selves from radically different realities come together in this “dazzling” and “trailblazing work” (The Washington Post). Widely acknowledged as Joanna Russ’s masterpiece, The Female Man is the suspenseful, surprising, darkly witty, and boldly subversive chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael—all living in parallel worlds—meet. Librarian Jeannine is waiting for marriage in a past where the Depression never ended, Janet lives on a utopian Earth with an all-female population, Joanna is a feminist in the 1970s, and Jael is a warrior with claws and teeth on an Earth where male and female societies are at war with each other. When the four women begin traveling to one another’s worlds, their preconceptions on gender and identity are forever challenged. With “palpable anger . . . leavened by wit and humor” (The New York Times), Russ both employs and upends genre conventions to deliver a wickedly satiric and exhilarating version of when worlds collide and women get woke. This ebook includes the Nebula Award–winning bonus short story “When It Changed,” set in the world of The Female Man.