Cultural Criticism

Linda Alcoff, “Cultural Feminism Versus Post-Structuralism and the Identity Crisis in Feminist
Theory,” Signs, 13.3 (1988): 405-436

Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and
Billie Holiday

Teresa de Lauretis, Alice Doesn’t: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema

Teresa de Lauretis, Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction

Teresa de Lauretis, Feminist Studies, Critical Studies

Mary Ann Doane, Femme Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, and Psychoanalysis

Nancy Fraser, Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory

bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation

bell hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

Judith Mayne, The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women’s Cinema

Tania Modleski, Loving With a Vengeance: Mass Produced Fantasies for Women

Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Screen, 16.3 (Autumn 1975): 6-19

Constance Penley, Feminism and Film Theory

E. Probyn, Sexing the Self: Gendered Positions in Cultural Studies

K. Rowe, The Unruly Woman: Gender and Genres of Laughter

Kaja Silverman, Male Subjectivity at the Margins

Jackie Stacey (et al), Off-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies

Catherine Stimpson, Where the Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces

Early and Radical Feminism

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape

Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Oppression

Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism

Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women

Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse

Andrea Dworkin, Letters From a War Zone

Andrea Dworkin, Right-wing Women

Andrea Dworkin, Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women’s Equality (coauthored
with Catherine MacKinnon)

Andrea Dworkin, Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women

Alice Echols, Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America

Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex

Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

Catherine MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and the Law

Catherine MacKinnon, Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Discrimination

Catherine MacKinnon, Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women’s Equality

Catherine MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State

Catherine MacKinnon, Only Words

Catherine MacKinnon, “Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory,”
Signs, 7 and 8, 1982

Kate Millett, Sexual Politics

Janice Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male

Gayle Rubin, Deirde English, and Amber Hollibaugh, “Talking Sex,” Socialist Review, 11.4
(1981): 43-62

Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex,” in Pleasure and Danger, C.S. Vance (ed.)

Embodiment
Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight

Shirley Castelnuovo and Sharon Guthrie, Feminism and the Female Body: Liberating the Amazon
Within

K. Chernin, The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness

Jane Gallop, Thinking Through the Body

Laurence Goldstein (ed.), The Female Body

Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies

S. Orbach, Fat is a Feminist Issue

J. Sawicki, Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power, and the Body

Shirley and Sharon, Liberating the Amazon

Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

Liberal Feminism
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

Betty Friedan, The Second Stage

Harriet Taylor Mill, “Enfranchisement of Women,” in Essays on Sex Equality, Alice S. Rossi (ed.)

John Stuart Mill, “The Subjection of Women” in Essays on Sex Equality, Alice S. Rossi (ed.)

Alice Rossi (ed.), The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir

Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

Susan Wendell, “A (qualified) defense of liberal feminism,” Hypatia, 2.2 (1987)

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Materialist Feminism

Michele Barrett, Women’s Oppression Today: Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis

Mia Campioni and Elizabeth Grosz, “Love’s labours lost: Marxism and feminism,” in Beyond
Marxism? Interventions after Marx, J. Allen and P. Patton (eds.)

Dalla Costa (et al), The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community

Angela Davis, Women, Race, and Class

Christine Delphy, Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women’s Oppression

Theresa Ebert, Ludic Feminism

Zillah Eisenstein, Capitalist Patriarchy and the Cast for Socialist Feminism

Zillah Eisenstein, The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism

Frederick Engels, Origins of the Family

Roslyn L. Feldberg, “Comparative Worth: Toward Theory and Practice in the United States,”
Signs, 10.2 (Winter 1984): 311-328

Ann Foreman, Femininity as Alienation: Women and the Family in Marxism and Psychoanalysis

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics

Sarah Grimke, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women
Heidi Hartmann, “The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive
Union,” in Women and Revolution, Lydia Sargent (ed.)

Heidi Hartmann, “The Family as the Locus of Gender, Class, and Political Struggle: The Example
of Housework,” Signs, 6.2 (1981): 109-134

Nancy Hartsock, “The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist
Historical Materialism,” in Discovering Reality: Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics,
Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Sandra Harding and Merrell Hintikka (eds.)

Nancy Hartsock, Money, Sex, and Power: Toward a Feminist Historical Materialism

Rosemary Hennessy, Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse

Max Horkheimer, “Authority and the Family,” in Critical Theory, selected essays

Annette Kuhn and Anne Marie Wolpe (eds.), Feminism and Materialism: Women and Modes of
Production

Juliet Mitchell, Women’s Estate

Linda J. Nicholson, Gender and History: The Limits of Social Theory in the Age of the Family

Anne Phillips, Divided Loyalties: Dilemmas of Sex and Class

Sheila Rowbotham, Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World

Lise Vogel, Marxism and the Oppresion of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory

Postmodernism & Feminism

Michele Barrett and Anne Phillips, Destabilizing Theory

Seyla Benhabib, Situating the Self: Gender, Community, and Postmodernism in Contemporary
Ethics

Seyla Benhabib and Drusilla Cornell, Feminism as Critique

Susan Bordo and Alison Jaggar (eds.), Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of

Being and Knowing

Judith Butler and Joan Scott (eds.), Feminists Theorize the Political

Jane Flax, Disputed Subjects

Jane Flax, Thinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the

Contemporary West

Nancy Fraser, Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory

Ann Garry and Marilyn Pearsall, Women, Knowledge, and Reality

Donna Haraway, “A manifesto for cyborgs,” in Feminism/Postmodernism, Linda Nicholson (ed.)

Donna Haraway, Simions, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

Sandra Harding, “The instability of analytical categories of feminist theory,” Signs, 11.4 (1986):
645-64

Susan J. Heckman, Gender and Knowledge: Elements of a Postmodern Feminism

Tania Modleski, Feminism Without Women: Culture and Criticism in a “Postfeminist” Age

Linda Nicholson, Feminsm/Postmodernism

Joan W. Scott, Gender and the Politics of History

Monique Wittig, “The mark of gender,” Feminist Issues, 5.2 (Fall 1985): 3-12

Queer Theory
Herbert Blau, “Disseminating Sodom,” Salmagundi 58-59 (Fall 1982-Winter 1983): 221-52

Joseph A. Boone and Michael Cadden (eds), Engendering Men: The Question of a Male Feminist
Criticism

Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of ‘Sex,’

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Sue-Ellen Case, “Towards a Butch-Femme Aesthetic,” Discourse Journal for Theoretical Studies
in Media and Culture 11.1 (1988-89): 55-73

Terry Castle, The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture

John D’Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the
United States, 1940-1970

Teresa de Lauretis, The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire

Teresa de Lauretis, “Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation,” Theatre Journal 40 (1988)

Jonathan Dollimore, Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault

Alexander Doty, Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture

Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr. (eds), Hidden from History:
Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past

Lee Edelman, Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory

Lee Edelman, “Tearooms and Sympathy, or, The Epistemology of the Water Closet,” in Henry
Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, David M. Halperin (eds), The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self

Diana Fuss (ed), Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories

Diana Fuss, Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature, and Difference

Marjorie Garber, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety

Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity

M. Hall, C. Kitzinger, J. Loulan, and R. Perkins, “Lesbian psychology, lesbian politics,” Feminism
and Psychology: An International Journal 2.1: 7-26

David Halperin, “Is There a History of Sexuality,” History and Theory 28 (1989): 257-274

Diane Hamer, “Significant Others: Lesbianism and Psychoanalytic Theory,” Feminist Review 34
(Spring 1990): 134-51

Susan Jeffreys, The Lesbian Heresy: A Feminist Perspective on the Lesbian Sexual Revolution

Jonathan Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.

Celia Kitzinger, The Social Construction of Lesbianism

Wayne Kostenbaum, Double Talk: The Erotics of Male Literary Collaberation

Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group, Love Your Enemy? The Debate between Heterosexual
Feminism and Political Lesbianism, London: Only Women Press, 1981

Biddy Martin, “Lesbian Identity and Autobiographical Difference[s],” in Bella Brodzki and Celeste
Schenck (eds), Life/Lines: Theorizing Women’s Autobiography

Henrietta Moore, A Passion for Difference

Rebecca O’Rourke, Reflecting on the Well of Loneliness

Sherry B. Ortner and Harriet Whitehead, Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Sexuality

Shane Phelan, “(Be)Coming Out: Lesbian Identity and Politics,” Signs 18.4 (Summer 1993): 765-
790

Radicalesbians, “The Woman Identified Woman,” in Anne Loedt, Ellen Levine, and Anita Rapone
(eds), Radical Feminism

Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” Signs, 5.4 (1980): 631-60

Judith Roof, A Lure of Knowledge: Lesbian Sexuality and Theory

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “A Poem Is Being Written,” Representations, 17, 1987

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet

Lynne Segal, Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure

Steven Seidman, Embattled Eros

Alan Sinifield, Cultural Politics: Queer Readings

Alan Sinifield, The Wilde Century: Oscar Wilde, Effimancy, and the Queer Moment

Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson (eds), Powers of Desire: The Politics of
Sexuality

Jeffrey Weeks, Sex, Politics, and Society

Jeffrey Weeks, Sexuality and its Discontents

Jeffrey Weeks, Invented Moralities

Harriet Whitehead, “The Bow and the Burder Strap: A New Look at Institutionalized
Homosexuality in Native North America,” in Sherry B. Ortner and Harriet Whitehead (eds), Sexual
Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality

Monica Wittig, The Straight Mind and Other Essays

Race and Feminist Theory

Hazel Carby, Reconstructing womanhood

Barbara Christian, “The race for theory,” in Making Face, Making Soul, Haciendo Caras, Gloria
Anzaldua (ed.)

Combahee River Collective, “A black feminist statement,” in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings
by Radical Women of Color, Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua (eds.)

Kimberle Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex,” in Feminist Legal Theory,
Katharine Bartlett and Rosanne Kennedy (eds.)

Patricia Hill Collins, “The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought,” Signs, 14.4 (1989):
745-773

Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of
Empowerment

Ruth Frankenberg, White women, race matters: the social construction of whiteness

bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist – Thinking Black

bell hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks
Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave

Gloria Joseph and Jill Lewis, Common Differences: Conflicts in Black and White Feminist
Perspectives

Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings of Radical Women of
Color
Barbara Smith, Toward a Black Feminist Criticism

Elizabeth Spelman, “Theories of Race and Gender: The Erasure of Black Women,” Quest, 5.4
(1980): 36-62

Michele Wallace, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights

Patricia Williams, The Rooster’s Egg