What to Read After The Feminine Mystique
Readers who loved The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Feminine Mystique is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Feminine Mystique
Backlash
The female eunuch
Female Chauvinist Pigs
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Our bodies, ourselves
The beauty myth : how images of beauty are used against women
Gender Trouble
A Vindication of Rights of Woman
Against our will: men, women and rape
Le Deuxième Sexe
Sisterhood is Powerful
Feminism
A strange stirring
"The yellow wallpaper" and other stories
The Dialectic of Sex
Feminism and pop culture
The Vagina Monologues
Feminism Is for Everybody
Full Frontal Feminism
Men Explain Things To Me
A Room of One's Own
Half the sky
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Delusions of gender