Top 5 Books on Feminism, 1950s-1970s

Classic books from the women's liberation and feminist movement in the so-called Second Wave, from the 1950s through the 1970s. Excellent choices for personal reading, reading groups, or classroom use.

1. The Feminine Mystique

by Betty Friedan

2. Small Changes

by Marge Piercy

3. Of Woman Born : Motherhood As Experience and Institution

by Adrienne Rich

4. Women of Ideas: And What Men Have Done to Them: From Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich

by Dale Spender

5. Betty Friedan : And the Making of the Feminine Mystique

subtitle: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)
by Daniel Horowitz