This list of source works from the women's liberation movement or Second Wave of feminism is prepared by the International Archives of the Second Wave of Feminism project based in Berkeley, California.
This initial bibliography focuses on American works. Most works and groups listed occur within the ovular period of 1966-74, though earlier or later works are featured if especially influential or notable. We invite feedback and suggestions of source works (include why you think the work important and publication information).
The archives is interested in hearing from feminists in other countries regarding influential feminist works of the latter half of the twentieth century, regardless of date.
POLITICAL ANALYSISAtkinson , Ti Grace, Amazon Odyssey (1966-1971)*
Brownmiller, Susan, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (1975)*
Davis, Angela, An Autobiography (1974)
Della Costa, Maria, and Selma James, "The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community"(1972)
Densmore, Dana,
-"Independence from the Sexual Revolution" (1971)
-"Sex Roles and Female Oppression" (1969)
Dunbar, Roxanne, "Female Liberation as the Basis for Social Revolution"*
Eiljerson, Mette, "On the Masters and Johnson Report" (1966)
Faludi, Susan, Backlash (198_)
Firestone, Shulamith, The Dialectics of Sex (1971)*
Freeman, Jo, The Women's Liberation Movement: Its Origins, Structure and Ideas (1971)
Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Gornick, Vivian, and B. Moran, Woman in Sexist Society (1972)
Greer, Germaine, The Female Eunuch (1970)
Johnson, Jill, Lesbian Nation (1972)
Jones, Beverly and Judith Brown, "Towards a Female Liberation Movement" (I, 1966; II, 1967)
Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique (1962)*
Koedt, Anne,
-"The 'Vaginal Orgasm'" (1968)*
-co-Ed., Radical Feminism (1973)
Mainardi, Pat, "The Politics of Housework" (S.I.P., draft circulated in 1968)*
Millet, Kate,
-Flying (1974)
-The Prostitution Papers (1971)
-Sexual Politics (1970)*
Mitchell, Juliet,
-"The Longest Revolution" (New Left Review, 1966)*
-Women's Estate (1971)
Morgan, Robin, Ed., Sisterhood Is Powerful (S.I.P.) (1970)*
Oakley, Ann, Housewife (1974)
Piercy, Marge, "The Grand Coolie Dam," (S.I.P., original draft, 1969)
Radicalesbians, "The Women Identified Woman" (1971)
Reed, Evelyn, Problems of Women's Liberation: A Marxist Approach (1969)
Rich, Adrienne, Of Woman Born (1976)
Sarachild, Kathie,
-"On consciousness-raising groups" (1967, S.I.P.)
-Feminist Revolution (1974)
Solanis, Valerie, The Scum Manifesto (1968)
Wolff, Charlotte, Love Between Women (1971)
SOCIAL ANALYSIS./SOCIAL SCIENCES
Briffault, Robert, The Mothers (1927, 1963, 1967)
Bird, Caroline, Born Female: The High Cost of Keeping Women Down (1966)
Chesler, Phyllis, Women and Madness (1972)*
Dworkin, Andrea, Woman Hating (1974)
Gimbutas, Marija, The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe (1974)
Davis, Elizabeth Gould, The First Sex (1971)
Diner, Helen , Mothers and Amazons (1967)
Grave, Robert, The White Goddess, (1948,. 1966)*
Griffin, Susan, Woman and Nature (1978)*
Grimstad, Kirsten and Susan Rennie, The New Woman's Survival Catalog (1973)
Harrison, Jane Ellen, Themis (1962)*
Heilbron, Carolyn, Toward A Recognition of Androgyny (1973)
Korda, Michael, Male Chauvinism (1973)
Lederer, Wolfgang, The Fear of Women (1968)
Lesher, Eda, The Conspiracy Against Childhood (1967)
Masters and Johnson , Report on Human Sexual Response (1966)*
Mellart, James, Catal Huyuk (1967)
Merchant, Carolyn,
-Death of Nature (1980)
-Ecological Revolutions (1989)
Murray, Margaret, The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1971)
Neumann, Eric, The Great Mother (1955, 1963, 1972)
Seaman, Barbara, Free and Female: The New Sexual Role of Women (1973)
Weisstein, Naomi, "Kinder, Kirche Küche: Psychology Constructs the Female" (1970)*
PHILOSOPHY AND METAPHYSICS
de Beauvoir, Simone, The Second Sex (1954, 1966)*
Daly, Mary,
-Beyond God the Father (1971) *
-The Church and the Second Sex (1968)
-GynEcology (1978)*
d'Eaubonne, Françoise, "Feminism or Death" (1973)
Rossi, Alice, The Feminist Papers (1973)
Schmeir, Miriam, Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings (1972)
Simos, Mirriam (Starhawk), The Spiral Dance (1979)*
FICTION AND CREATIVE ARTS
Angelou , Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)*
Atwood, Margaret, Surfacing (1972)
Bambari, Toni, Gorilla, My Love (1972)
Brown, Rita Mae, Rubyfruit Jungle (1973)
Chicago, Judy, The Dinner Party-exhibit (1974-1979-)*
Gearhart, Sally, Wanderground (1975)
Grahn, Judy,
-Edward the Dyke and Other Poems (1971)
-The Work of a Common Woman (1973, 1978)
Kingston, Maxine Hong, The Woman Warrior (1977)*
Lorde, Audre, The Black Unicorn (1978)*
Morgan, Robin, Monster (1972)
Newbrough, Celeste, Pagan Psalms (1973, 1980)
Parker, Pat, Movement in Black (1978)
Piercy, Marge, Small Changes (1973)
Plath, Sylvia ,
-Ariel (1965)*
-The Bell Jar (1972)*
Ross, Fran, Oreo (1972)
Russ, Joanna, The Female Man (1974)
Shange, Ntoshake, For Colored Girls...Rainbow (1970)
Silko, Leslie, Laguna Woman (1974)
Wittig Monique, Les Guérillères (1969)*
Wong, Nellie, Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park (1977)
CULTURAL ANALYSIS
Abbott, Sidney, and Barbara Love, Sappho Was a Right-On Woman (1972)
Bambari, Toni, Ed., The Black Woman: An Anthology (1970)
Combahee River Collective, "Black Feminist Statement" (Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism, 1974)
Kennedy, Florynce, Color Me Flo (1976)
Martin, Dell and Phyllis Lyon,
-Lesbian Love and Liberation (1970)
-Lesbian/Woman (1972)
Medicine, Bea, "The roles of women in Native American societies" (1975)
Moraga Cheríe, and Gloria Anzaldúa, Eds., This Bridge Called My Back, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings of Radical Women of Color (1981)*
Moreno, Dorinda, "La Mujer a es la Tierra: La Tierra de Vida" (1975)
Neithammer, Caroline, Daughters of the Earth (1977)
Nieto-Gomez, Anna, "La Feminista" (Encuentro Feminil, 1974)
JOURNALS, GROUPS, PRESSES
Amazon Quarterly
Boston Women's Health Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves (1972, 1974)*
Combahee River Collective (1974-)
Daughters of Bilitis (San Francisco, 1955-)*
Diana Press (Baltimore, 1972-)
Distaff (New Orleans, 1971-)
The Feminist Press (New York, 1970-)
Feminist Revolution
The Feminists: A Political Organization to Annihilate Sex Roles
- pamphleteers (New York, 1968-)*
Feminist Studies (academic, 1972 -)
The Furies (Group)
HER (Philadelphia, 1970 -)
Journal of Female Liberation (Boston, 1969)*
Ms Magazine. (1972-)
N.O.W.-National Organization for Women (1966-)
N.O.W., New York Chapter (split from National N.O.W. in 1971)
New Victoria Press (New Hampshire, 1972-)
Notes from the Second Year / Third Year
Oakland Women's Press Collective (1972-)
Off Our Backs (Washington, 1970 -)
Persephone Press (Massachusetts,)
Radical Feminists (New York, Boston, 1967-)*
Radicalesbians (1970-)*
Redstockings - pamphleteers (New York, 1966-)*
Shameless Hussy Press (San Francisco Bay Area, 1972-)
Unbound Feet (San Francisco Bay Area, 1975-)
Wages for Housework (International Movement for, 1969-)*
WITCH: Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy From Hell - high profile demonstrations (1967-)*
WLM (Chicago 1971-)
An asterisk (*) indicates a highly influential work, journal or group.
S.I.P. indicates that the article was anthologized in Morgan, R., Ed. Sisterhood Is Powerful