Belenky, M., Clinchy, B., Goldberger, N., & Tarule, J. (1997) Women’s ways of knowing: The development of self, voice, and mind. New York: Basic Books.
Through the interviews of 135 women, the fact that women are still discriminated against and feel silenced is portrayed.

Cobble, D.S. (2004). The other women’s movement: Workplace justice and social rights in modern America. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Feminism has often been about rights for women, however, feminism also deals with the social reforms especially in areas of employment.  Because of these social reformists, their changes are in place today.

de la Cruz, S.J.I. (1994). The answer to sor filotea: Including a selection of poems. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York.
Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is considered the First Feminist of America and her writings stand as a link between Christine de Pizan and Mary Wollstonecraft in trying to establish intellectual rights for women. This particular work is the culminating response to years of attacks.

Faludi, S. (2006). Backlash: The undeclared war against American women. New York: Three Rivers Press.
Originally written in the 1980s, the myths of the women’s movement are debunked and the fact that women are unhappy due to more freedom in society is disproven.

Fox-Genovese, E. (1991). Feminism without illusions: A critique of individualism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Feminism is often portrayed as proclaiming individualism for women, however, with the issues addressed here it is shown that feminism and individualism are not connected.

Friedan, B. (2001). The feminine mystique. New York: Norton.
Originally published in 1963, it started off the Second Wave of the feminist movement creating a debate in the country that had never existed before.  Today, it serves as a reminder of the different social relations that deal with gender.

Loy, M. & Conover, R. (1997). The feminist manifesto. The lost lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy (Rev. ed.). New York: Macmillan, 153-157.
The Feminist Manifesto is a poem written by Mina Loy, a modernist poet that was heavily influenced by Ezra Pound. Her other poems focus on women’s issues that shocked many of the writers in her day.

Millet, K. (1990). Sexual politics. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Released in the 1970s, this book helped to fuel the second wave of feminism with its discussion of the inequality of a patriarchal system, especially in its manner of degrading and undermining women through sex.

Rosen, R. (2000). The world split open: How the modern women’s movement changed America. New York: Viking.
Focusing on the last half of the twentieth century, an account of the women’s movement from archival research and interviews that take you inside the movement and the backlash in the nineties. Through this account, the influence and change that was brought because of the women’s movement is better understood.

Scott, J. (1988). Gender and the politics of history. New York: Columbia Press.
A collection of nine essays in which the importance of considering gender in history is emphasized.

Tobias, S. (1997). Faces of feminism: An activists reflections on the women's movement. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
A discussion of the state of feminism currently, especially as a comparison to what happened in the women’s movement after women’s suffrage was required by the government.

Wollstonecraft, M. (1845). A vindication of the rights of women. New York: G. Vale.
During the French Revolution, many calls were going out for equal rights for men (especially between the lower classes and upper classes).  Wollstonecraft wrote this piece in response to the calls for men rights reminding the public that women are even lower.