We aim to develop and share knowledge among women, not only from in-person discussions, but also through reading and analyzing women’s feminist writings. Thus, we would like to offer this incomplete list of our favorite books, in no particular order, which we gladly recommend:

• Phyllis Chesler
  • Women and Madness/Das verrückte Geschlecht
  • Women’s Inhumanity to Women
• Mary Daly – Gyn/Ecology / Gyn/Ökologie
• Simone de Beauvoir – The Second Sex/Das andere Geschlecht
• Gail Dines – Pornland/Pornland. Wie die Pornoindustrie uns unserer Sexualität beraubt
• Andrea Dworkin
  • Pornography: Men Possessing Women/Pornografie
  • Right-Wing Women
  • Intercourse/Geschlechtsverkehr
• Susan Faludi – Backlash/Backlash. Die Männer schlagen zurück
• Silvia Federici – Caliban and The Witch; Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation/Caliban und die Hexe; Frauen, der Körper und die ursprüngliche Akkumulation
• Shulamith Firestone – The Dialectic of Sex/Frauenbefreiung und die sexuelle Revolution
• Betty Friedan – The Feminine Mystique/Der Weiblichkeitswahn
• Matilda Joslyn Gage – Woman, Church and State/Frau, Kirche und Staat
• Emma Goldman – Chapters 8-11 from Anarchism and Other Essays
  • Chapter 8: The Traffic in Women
  • Chapter 9: Woman Suffrage
  • Chapter 10: The Tragedy of Woman’s Emancipation
  • Chapter 11: Marriage and Love
• Dee Graham – Loving to Survive
• Germaine Greer – The Female Eunuch/Der weibliche Eunuch
• Lynne Harne & Elaine Miller – All The Rage: Reasserting Radical Lesbian Feminism
• Susan Hawthorne – In Defence of Seperatism
• Sheila Jeffreys
  • Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful cultural practices in the West
  • Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective
• Sonia Johnson
  • Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation
  • The Ship That Sailed into the Living Room: Sex and Intimacy Reconsidered
  • Out of This World: A Fictionalized True-Life Adventure
• Celia Kitzinger & Rachel Perkins – Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and Psychology
• Gerda Lerner
  • The Creation of Patriarchy/Die Entstehung des Patriarchats
  • The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy/Die Entstehung des feministischen Bewusstseins
• Audre Lorde – Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches/Sister Outsider: Nicht Unterschiede lähmen uns, sondern Schweigen
• Huschke Mau – Entmenschlicht
• Catherine MacKinnon – Towards a Feminist Theory of the State
• Elisabeth Miller (editor) – Spinning and Weaving: Radical Feminism for the 21st Century
• Kate Millett – Sexual Politics/Sexus und Herrschaft
• Sandra Konrad – Das beherrschte Geschlecht
• Cherríe Moranga & Gloria Andaluza (editors) – This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
• Robin Morgan – Sisterhood is Global
• Rachel Moran – Paid For/Was vom Menschen übrig bleibt
• Ann Oakley – Sex, Gender and Society
• Janice Raymond
  • A Passion for Friends / Why Sisterhood is both Powerful and Difficult: notes on female friendship – Dr. Bec Wonders
  • Doublethink/Doppeldenk
• Alice Schwarzer & Chantal Louis – Transsexualität
• Die Störenfriedas – Feminismus radikal gedacht
• Suzette Hagen Elgin – Native Tongue Trilogy
• Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
• Marilyn French – Our Father
• Sally Miller Gearhart – The Wanderground
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Herland
• James Tiptree Jr. – Houston, Houston, Do You Read?