Women's Studies

When I decided to do the Women Unbound reading challenge, I needed to pick books related to feminism.  I started making a list and checking it twice -- well, probably checking it a half dozen times before I wrote about my eight choices (though I reserve the right to change my mind -- again).  This is my longer list, if anyone needs good ideas for books that fall under the "women's studies" label.

FICTION

• Diary of a Mad Housewife ~ by Sue Kaufman, 1967
  
• The Triumph of Deborah ~ by Eva Etzioni-Halevy, 2008
• Eleanor vs. Ike ~ by Robin Gerber, 2008
• Evensong ~ by Gail Godwin, 1999
• The Camel Bookmobile ~ by Masha Hamilton, 2007
• Staircase of a Thousand Steps ~ by Masha Hamilton, 2007
• The Secret School ~ by Avi, 2001
  
• One Thousand White Women ~ by Jim Fergus, 1998
• The Red Tent ~ by Anita Diamant, 1997
  
• Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God ~ by Joe Coomer, 1995
• Herland ~ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1915
• The Secret Life of Bees ~ by Sue Monk Kidd, 2002
  
• The Pull of the Moon ~ by Elizabeth Berg, 1996
• Prodigal Summer ~ by Barbara Kingsolver, 2000
• Possessing the Secret of Joy ~ by Alice Walker, 1992
• Mrs. Dalloway ~ by Virginia Woolf, 1925
• The Hours ~ by Michael Cunningham, 1998
• The Left Hand of Darkness ~ by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969
• Rashi's Daughters: Joheved ~ by Maggie Anton, 2005
• Their Eyes Were Watching God ~ by Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
• The Awakening ~ by Kate Chopin, 1899
• The Women's Room ~ by Marilyn French, 1977
• Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen ~ by Susan Gregg Gilmore, 2008
  
• Some Days There's Pie ~ by Catherine Landis, 2002
• The Penelopiad ~ by Margaret Atwood, 2005
• Ahab's Wife ~  by Sena Jeter Naslund, 1999
  
• A Thousand Acres ~ by Jane Smiley, 1991

NONFICTION

• Cherokee Women ~ by Theda Perdue, 1998
• Why Women Should Rule the World ~ by Dee Dee Myers, 2008
  
• Mrs. Man ~ by Una Stannard, 1977
• The Feminine Mystique ~ by Betty Friedan, 1963
• Women's Ways of Knowing ~ by Mary Field Belenky, et al, 1986
• In a Different Voice ~ by Carol Gilligan, 1982, 1993
• Dance of the Dissident Daughter ~ by Sue Monk Kidd, 1996
• GirlDrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism ~ Nona Willis Aronowitz and Emma Bee Bernstein, 2009
• The Boundaries of Her Body: A History of Women's Rights in America ~ by Debran Rowland, 2004
• Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings ~ edited by Miriam Schneir, 1972
  
• We Are Our Mother's Daughters ~ by Cokie Roberts, 1998
• Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation ~ by Cokie Roberts, 2004
• The Silent Passage: Menopause ~ by Gail Sheehy, 1992
• A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman ~ by Joan Anderson, 1999
  
• In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution ~ by Susan Brownmiller, 1999
  
• In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose ~ by Alice Walker, 1983
• Out of Africa ~ by Isak Dinesen, 1938
• Lives of Our Own: Secrets of Salty Old Women ~ by Caroline Bird, 1995
• What We Know So Far: Wisdom Among Women ~ edited by Beth Benatovich, 1995
  
• Bookends: Two Women, One Enduring Friendship ~ by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, 2001
• Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement ~ edited by Robin Morgan, 1970
• A Room of One's Own ~ by Virginia Woolf, 1929
• Women Who Run with the Wolves ~ by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 1992
• Reinventing Home: Six Working Women Look at Their Home Lives ~ by Laurie Abraham, et al, 1991

CHILDREN'S (because we're all children at heart)

• Blueberry Girl ~ by Neil Gaiman, 2009
• Miss Rumphius ~ by Barbara Cooney, 1982