- Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga: This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1984)
- Beth Brandt: A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian Women (1984)
- Books by Charlotte Bunch, especially Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action (1987) –a handbook of sorts; and International Feminism: Networking Against Female Sexual Slavery
- Angela Davis: Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday (1998) — illuminates the history of black women in the United States and the musical aesthetics of resistance
- Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex (1949) –-a pre-eminent French existentialist’s take on women and society
- Shulamith Firestone: The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1973) — a visionary, essential primer
- Books by bell hooks, especially Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2000); Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (1989); Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (2006); Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (2000); Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994)
- Mona Hughes: Women and Disabilities: It Isn’t Them and Us (2000) – for those of us who are disabled and those of us who are temporarily able-bodied
- Kate Millet: Sexual Politics: A Surprising Examination of Society’s Most Arbitrary Folly (1970) –a passionate doctoral dissertation turned feminist classic by an acute literary analyst
- Books by Robin Morgan: especially Sisterhood is Powerful (1970) –a radical feminist primer; Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women’s Anthology (1996); Sisterhood is Forever (2003) –60 original essays on inclusionary feminisms; and The Demon Lover: The Psychological and Political Roots of Terrorism (2000)
- Su Negrin: Begin at Start: Some Thoughts on Personal Liberation and World Change (1972) -–radical for its time (and now)
- Books by Gloria Steinem, especially Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender (1995); Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983); and Revolution From Within: A Book of Self-Esteem (1993)
- Diane Yen-Mei (editor) Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings by and about Asian American Women (1985)
- Gloria Anzaldua: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (first pub. 1987 – new 4th edition coming soon!)
