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“The right book at the right momentmightchange everything.”
This is an excerpt fromChanging My Mind, an essay collection by Zadie Smith.
More than 50 years ago, Betty Friedan released her galvanizing masterwork,The Feminine Mystique.
Are you one of these women?
One that’s awake enough and audacious enough to call yourself a feminist?
Then consider these books, old and new, required reading.
Support your fellow badass feminists and be ready to school some haters on the basics of queendom.
So take this tome from small times to heart and learn your wymyn’s history.
Yep, she’s that good.
An intersectional feminist contemporary love story in a globalized world?
Put it in your shopping cart.
And what’s that old saying again?
If t’s good enough for the Obamas, it’s good enough for us.
The style of the writing isn’t always my absolute favorite, but the ideas and mechanics are masterful.
Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman by Lindy West, 2016
I love Lindy West.
Check outShrill: Notes From a Loud Womanbefore it’sadapted for TV.
Feeling dissatisfied with your married life?
Depressed because all you’re allowed to do is hang around the house?
What’s the treatment?
Hang around the house alone and go crazy.
It was called the “rest cure.”
The protagonist in the story is a lonely, dissatisfied housewife of a prominent doctor.
Her husband thinks she’s hysterical, and forces her into “rest cure” isolation.
Read this poignant novel and then give it to your little sister.
An early 20th century maiden aunt is pitied by everyone because she’s not married.
You do you, right?
The Vegetarian by Han Kang, 2016
Be careful with this one.
Does this sound like a familiar conundrum to anyone out there … even 118 years later?
Sounds great, right?
Well, if you don’t know the ending, I won’t spoil it for you.
Enough of that nonsense!
Sara Farizan is an Iranian-born American millennial feminist writer, and she is making her voice heard admirably.
Give it a read.
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler, 1990
What can I say?
This book is essential.Gender Troublelaid the groundwork for the concept of “gender performativity.”
Read it anyway, and get your life.
So let us know what other rad books you would recommend to a baby feminist.
Add fuel to your fire to stay passionate and awake into perpetuity.
Support your fellow women.
