So many, but that’s a really really wide topic and also different “levels” and I don’t know if you’re looking for introductions or for very specific stuff!
Here’s a small selection of things I enjoyed reading, though:
Books
Nonfiction
- Pretty much everything by bell hooks, especially Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center for a general overview and The will to change specifically aimed at men
- The Guilty Feminist (also a podcast)
- Whipping Girl, specifically about trans women
Fiction
- The first woman, on the birth of modern feminism in Uganda
Essays
I’ve been meaning to read The Will to Change by bell hooks but I’m not a consistent reader…
I haven’t read that one yet (my partner just finished it so I’m hoping to steal it from them next time I see them!), but if it’s anything like the other books I’ve read by her, it’s made up of short chapters so you can finish a chapter in one go and then forget you own the book, then go back to it for another chapter a few months later, etc.
Thanks! I think I’ve got a decent grasp of most basic ideas, but I haven’t read much theory, so I was curious what other people read
Ah fair! In that case yes my big recommendation is bell hooks’s work (both super foundational and surprisingly easy to follow) and Whipping Girl.
Definitely bell hooks Just finished The Trouble with White Women by Kyla Schuller
Reading Judith Butler right now Undoing Gender
I recommend Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde. Her essays blew me away and explained intersectionality in a way that made sense to me for the first time, although she didn’t use that word because it’s an older work. It was one of those books I got from the library and about 30 pages in I knew I wanted my own copy.