Reading Resources for Socialist Feminists
Radical Women ideas and history
The Radical Women Manifesto: Socialist Feminist Theory, Program and Organizational Structure
Estamos en la Lucha: Immigrant Women Light the Fires of Resistance, by Christina López
High Voltage Women: Breaking Barriers at Seattle City Light, by Ellie Belew
Lesbianism: A Socialist Feminist Perspective, by Susan Williams
Revolution, She Wrote, by Clara Fraser.Includes the Radical Women position papers, Woman as Leader, Response to 'Notes on Leadership,' Which Road to Women's Liberation, and The Emancipation of Women
Seize the Time! Radical Women's Work with Black Panther Party, a documentary album
Socialist Feminism: The First Decade, 1966-1976, by Gloria Martin
Women of Color: Front-runners for Freedom, by Nancy Reiko Kato
Women’s Bodies Are a Battlefield: Climate destruction, the refugee crisis and reproductive justice, by Debbie Brennan and Maudie Osborne
Women's Psychology: Mental Illness as a Social Disease, by Susan Williams
Feminist theory
The Emancipation of Women, by V.I. Lenin
The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan
The Hidden Face of Eve, by Nawal El Saadawi
The Natural Superiority of Women, by Ashley Montague
Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, by Frederick Engels
Murry Weiss on Women's Emancipation and the Future of the Fourth International
Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde
The War on the Disabled: Adding Insult to Injury, by Heidi Durham
Women's Evolution: From Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family by Evelyn Reed
History
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance: A New History of the Civil Rights Movement, by Danielle L. McGuire
Black Women in White America: A Documentary History, edited by Gerda Lerner
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Vine Deloria, Jr.
Century of Struggle, by Eleanor Flexner
A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left, by Sara Evans
The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile and Cuba, by Julie Shayne
The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917, by Meredith Tax
Viva la Raza: A History of Chicano Identity and Resistance, by Yolanda Alaniz and Megan Cornish
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson
When and Where I Enter: Black Women's Impact on Race and Sex in America, by Paula Giddings
When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany, by Renate Bridenthal, Atina Grossman, Marion Kaplan
People of Color
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, by Michele Wallace
Black Women Writers and the Sexual Mountain, by Calvin Hernton
De Colores Means All of Us, by Elizabeth Martinez
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, by Andrea Smith
Daughters of the Pacific, by Zohl de Ishtar
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, edited by Barbara Smith
Killing the Black Body, by Dorothy E. Roberts
Legacy to Liberation: Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America, edited by Fred Ho
Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women, by Asian Women United
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It, by Jo Ann Robinson
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
The Political Organizer is a Leader, by James Forman
Revolutionary Integration: A Marxist Analysis of African American Liberation, by Richard Fraser and Tom Boot
Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism, by Erik S. McDuffie
Talking Back: Voices of Color, edited by Nellie Wong
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherrié Moraga
Three Asian American Writers Speak Out on Feminism, by Nellie Wong, Merle Woo, and Mitsuye Yamada
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, edited by Jael Silliman and Loretta Ross
Voices of Color, edited by Yolanda Alaniz and Nellie Wong
Women, Race, and Class, by Angela Davis
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender
AIDS Hysteria: A Marxist Analysis, by Stephen Durham and Susan Williams
The Gay Militants, by Donn Teal
Gay Resistance: The Hidden History, by Sam Deaderick and Tamara Turner
Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation, edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue, by Leslie Feinberg
Transgender Warrior, by Leslie Feinberg
The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writing by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women, edited by Sharon Lim-Hing
Socialism
America's Road to Socialism, by James P. Cannon
The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Reform or Revolution, by Rosa Luxemburg
Socialism for Skeptics, by Clara Fraser (also included in Revolution, She Wrote)
Woman under Socialism, by August Bebel
Women and the Family, by Leon Trotsky
Biography/Autobiography
Assata: The Autobiography of Assata Shakur
The Autobiography of Mother Jones
Bride of the Revolution: Krupskaya and Lenin, by Robert H. McNeal
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells Barnett
Eleanor Marx: A Life, by Rachel Holmes
Leon Trotsky: His Life and Ideas, by Helen Gilbert
Lucy Parsons: American Revolutionary, by Carolyn Ashbaugh
The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography, by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Poetry
Breakfast Lunch Dinner, by Nellie Wong
A Comrade is Precious as a Rice Seedling, by Mila Aguilar
Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking, by Karen Brodine
Yellow Woman Speaks, by Merle Woo