Barnett, R., & Rivers, C. (2004). Same difference: How gender myths are hurting our relationships our children and our jobs. New York: Basic Books.
The endless debate of the differences between the genders comes ahead again here.  The authors believe that gender difference theory rationalizes the discrimination still prevalent in society and is comforting in a time of great social change.

DeBeauvoir, S. (1993). The second sex. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
In this analysis of womanhood, questions are asked at of both genders, which in the 1950s were revolutionary.

Fausto-Sterling, A. (1992). Myths of gender: Biological theories about women and men (Rev. ed.). New York: Basic Books.
The prevailing idea is that men and women are biologically different, however, this idea does not have any basis in fact and this book proves that.

Mill, J.S. (1895). Chapter 1. In Subjection of Women. National American Women Suffrage Association.
Written by an English philosopher, it argues for the equality between genders.
Full Text at: http://books.google.com/books?id=y-8tAAAAYAAJ

Sanday, P. R., & Goodenough, R. G. (1990). Beyond the second sex. University of Pennsylvania Press.
A collection of essays that discuss the past definitions of gender equality and inequality and how these need to change, especially involving Simone de Beauvoir's notion that women are "the second" in every society.

Trinh, T. M-H. (1989). Woman, native, other: Writing postcoloniality and feminism. Bloomington. Indiana University Press.
A two part discussion that first deals with the way women are placed in society to the point that they often have to push in or move away from this position put upon them.  The second deals with how writers write about the “others” culture.