Book List
Key:
1 = Essential Texts for Understanding How Patriarchy Developed
2 = Read If You’re Struggling with Being a Full-Time Mom (Even Though Of Course You Love Your Kids)
3 = Read If You’re a Person of Color Who Wants To See Yourself Reflected in History and Critique, and Read If You Are a White Person, Period
4 = Read If You Are a Spiritual/Religious Person Who is Trying to Maintain Your Faith
5 = Nonthreatening Book That’s Good to Give to People Who Need a Gentle Introduction
Season One
The Chalice and the Blade 1
by Riane Eisler
The Creation of Patriarchy 1
by Gerda Lerner
Mary, Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary 4
by Miri Rubin
Christ’s Emancipation of Women in the New Testament 4
by Lynne Wilson
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary 4
by Marina Warner
The Creation of Feminist Consciousness 1
by Gerda Lerner
The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen 1
by Olympe de Gouges
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1
by Mary Wollstonecraft
On the Equality of the Sexes 1
by Judith Sargent Murray
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes 1
by Sarah Grimké
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments 1
Speech on Women’s Suffrage 1
by Frederick Douglass
Keynote Address 1
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ain’t I A Woman 1 3
by Sojourner Truth
The Subjection of Women 1
by John Stuart Mill
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene 4
translated by Jean-Yves Leloup
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
“The Fundamental Principle of a Republic” 1
by Anna Howard Shaw
“Morality and Birth Control” 1
by Margarent Sanger
“The Case for Birth Control” 1
by Margarent Sanger
A Room of One’s Own
by Virginia Woolf
Killing the Angel in the House 1
by Virginia Woolf
“Open Letter to the Women of the World” 1
(Audio) by Eleanor Roosevelt
“Open Letter to the Women of the World” 1
(Text) by Eleanor Roosevelt
“Universal Declaration of Human Rights” 1
by Eleanor Roosevelt
The Real Wealth of Nations 1
by Riane Eisler
The Second Sex 1 2
by Simone de Beauvoir
The Feminine Mystique 1 2
by Betty Friedan
“Keep the Damned Women Out” 1
by Dr. Nancy Weiss Malkiel
Jane Crow and the Law 1 3
by Pauli Murray and Mary Eastwood
Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female 1 3
by Frances Beal
“Living the Revolution” 1
delivered by Gloria Steinem
Sexual Politics 1 2
by Kate Millett
Our Bodies, Ourselves (1971 Edition)
by the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
Our Bodies, Ourselves (2011 Edition)
by the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
This Bridge Called My Back 1 3
by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua
Women, Race and Class 1 3
by Angela Davis
ain’t i a woman 1 3
by bell hooks
Sister Outsider 1 3
by Audre Lorde
The Beauty Myth 1
by Naomi Wolf
Gender Trouble
by Judith Butler
WomanSpirit Rising
edited by Carol Christ and Judith Plaskow 4
The Sacred Hoop 1 4
by Paula Gunn Allen
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women 1
The Gender Knot 1 5
by Allan G Johnson
The Trouble with Normal
by Michael Warner
Cruising Utopia
by José Esteban Muñoz
feminism is for everybody 1 5
by bell hooks
Bad Feminist 3 5
by Roxanne Gay
Men Explain Things to Me
by Rebecca Solnit
Unfinished Business 1 2
by Anne-Marie Slaughter
Girls and Sex 1
by Peggy Orenstein
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong 1 5
by Angela Saini
Women and Power 1
by Mary Beard
Invisible Women 1 5
by Caroline Criado Perez
The Moment of Lift
by Melinda French Gates
For the Love of Men 5
by Elizabeth Plank
Untamed 4
by Glennon Doyle
Unwell Women 5
by Elinor Cleghorn
Women Who Run with the Wolves 4
by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Season Two
More Than a Body
by Lindsay Kite and Lexie Kite
The Heroine’s Journey 1 4
by Maureen Murdock
The Soul Solution
by Vanessa Loder 4
Rape Warfare 1
by Beverly Allen
The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy 4
by Carol Lynn Pearson
Can the Subaltern Speak?
by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
‘Twitter Thread on Abortion’ 5
by Gabrielle Blair
Witches and Neighbors 1
by Robin Briggs
The Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of Witchcraft 1
by Hans Peter Broedel
Lilith’s Fire 4
by Deborah Grenn-Scott
Funeral for Flaca 3
by Emilly Prado
Patriarchy Stress Disorder
by Dr. Valerie Rein
‘Why Women Still Can’t Have It All’ 1 2 5
(Article) by Anne-Marie Slaughter
When God Was a Woman 1 4
by Merlin Stone
Finding Mother God 4
by Carol Lynn Pearson
No More Goodbyes
by Carol Lynn Pearson
Fierce Self-Compassion 2
by Kristin Neff
Season Three
From Outrage to Courage 1
by Anne Firth Murray
Patriarchy and Gender in Africa 1 3
by Veronica Fynn Bruey
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War 3
by Leymah Gbowee
The Invention of Women 1 3
by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Daughters of Anowa 3
by Mercy Amba Oduyoye
We Should All Be Feminists 1 3 5
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi
God is a Black Woman 3 4
by Christena Cleveland
How We Fight for Our Lives
by Saeed Jones
Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family and Society 1 3
by Zahra Ayubi
Women Rising: In and Beyond The Arab Spring 3
edited by Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad
Faith and Feminism in Pakistan 3 4
by Afiya Zia
Palestinian Women’s Activism: Nationalism, Secularism, Islamism 3
by Islah Jad
The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality 1 5
by Angela Saini
New Jewish Feminism: Probing the Past, Forging the Future 4
by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein
Roar Like a Goddess: Every Woman’s Guide to Becoming Unapologetically Powerful, Prosperous, and Peaceful 4
by Acharya Shunya
The Trauma of Caste 3
by Thenmozhi Soundararajan
The Trouble With Marriage 1 3
by Dr. Srimati Basu
Buddhism After Patriarchy 4
by Rita Gross
Patriarchy in East Asia: A Comparative Sociology of Gender 1 3
by Sechiyama Kaku
(En)gendering Taiwan: The Rise of Taiwanese Feminism 1 3
edited by Ya-chen Chen
Women in Ancient China 1 3
by Bret Hinsch
Women in Early Imperial China 1 3
by Bret Hinsch
Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China 1 3
by Wang Ping
Scream from the Shadows 3
by Dr. Setsu Shigematsu
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 3
by Cho Nam-Joo
From Kinship to Kingship: Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands 1 3
by Christine Ward Gailey
Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania 1 3
by Dr. Maile Arvin
From Angel to Office Worker 1 3
by Dr. Susie Porter
In the Time of the Butterflies 3
by Julia Alvarez
High-Risk Feminism in Columbia 3
by Dr. Julia Zulver
Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School 3
by Dr. Farina King
We Are Dancing For You 3 4
by Cutcha Risling Baldy
Reproduction on the Reservation 3
by Brianna Theobold
Nurturing Our Humanity 1
by Riane Eisler & Douglas Fry
Hitler’s Furies 1
by Wendy Lower
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? 1
by Linda Nochlin
Season Four
The Guy’s Guide to Feminism 5
by Michael Kaufman & Michael Kimmel
Women in Politics 1
by Mary Chung Hayashi
The Woman They Could Not Silence 5
by Kate Moore
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
by Kate Manne
Hood Feminism 3
by Mikki Kendall
The Color of Money 3
by Mehrsa Baradaran
When Women Were Priests 4
by Karen Jo Torjesen
How to Be a Renaissance Woman 5
by Jill Burke
Leftover Women 3
by Leta Hong Fincher
Nice Churchy Patriarchy
by Liz Cooledge Jenkins
Worthy: From Cornfields to Corner Office of Microsoft
by Jane Boulware
Sisters in the Mirror 1 3
by Elora Shehabuddin
Housewife 1
by Lisa Selin Davis
Defiant Dreams 3
by Sola Mahfouz and Malaina Kapoor
Take Back Your Brain
by Kara Loewentheil
Move by Move
by Maurice Ashley
In Pursuit of Knowledge 3
by Kabria Baumgartner
The Vagina Monologues 1
by V (formerly Eve Ensler)
50 Years of Exponent II 4
by Katie Ludlow Rich and Heather Sundahl
We’re Speaking: The Life Lesson of Kamala Harris
by Hitha Palepu
Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacy of Zitkala Sa 3
by Tadeusz Lewandowski
We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition 3
by Sarah Hernandez
Essential Reading
That We Didn’t Have a Chance to Cover
On the Podcast
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928
by David Wallace Adams