Second Wave FeminismBooks

This classic work by the American Black feminist theorist re-examines feminism from an intersectional perspective, emphasizing the multiple oppressions of race, class, and gender, laying the theoretical foundation for inclusive feminism.

A groundbreaking work of second-wave feminism, Greer analyzes women's castrated state in patriarchal society with radical and incisive prose, challenging traditional female roles and gender norms to become an important theoretical foundation for the women's liberation movement.

A foundational work of the modern feminist movement that profoundly revealed the identity crisis faced by American middle-class women in the mid-20th century, heralded as the spark that ignited the second wave of feminism.

A 20th-century feminist literary classic that reveals the psychological predicament and social oppression faced by women in the 1950s through semi-autobiographical narrative, profoundly exploring the relationship between mental illness and gender constraints.

The most famous 1962 experimental novel by 2007 Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, telling the then-unspeakable facts: women as beings with sexual desires, who suffer from mental illness, who struggle, who climax, who menstruate. Through the perspective of writer Anna trying to integrate her life experiences and creative notes into a unified whole, Lessing explores the unbeautiful aspects of women's lives with love, anger, and a frankness almost unheard of among women writers at the time.

A foundational work of modern feminism that deeply analyzes women's status and situation in society, proposing the famous viewpoint that 'one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.'