"Reading Lists" Taboo??

Just for the record, reading books off of a "list" is not somehow inferior to "reading the books that you randomly come across in your day-to-day life." The former does not imply a deficiency of original/independent thought and the latter also does not imply some kind of superior sense of "mental/intellectual independence."

Feminist Literature

Here's a list of feminist literature in literary history.

By Title

• Adventure of the Black Lady - Aphra Behn
• Awakening (1899) - Kate Chopin
• Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405) - Christine de Pisan
• Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen - Olympe de Gouges
• Doll's House (1879) - Henrik Ibsen
• Female Imagination (1975) - Patricia Meyer Spacks
• Feminine Mystique (1963) - Betty Friedan
• Her Protection for Women (1589) - Jane Anger
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) - Harriet Jacobs
• Literary Women (1976) - Ellen Moers
• Literature of Their Own (1977) - Elaine Showalter
• Madwoman in the Attic (1979) - Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
• Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman (1798) - Mary Wollstonecraft
• Room of One's Own (1929) - Virginia Woolf
• Second Sex (1949) - Simone de Beauvoir
• Tale of Joan of Arc (1429) - Christine de Pisan
• Three Guineas (1938) - Virginia Woolf
• Treasure of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405) - Christine de Pisan
• Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft
• Woman with Prospects (1869) - Concepción Arenal

I've read the works in red. Another book that I consider to be a feminist classic that I have read is, "Fear of Flying" by Erica Jong. I HIGHLY recommend that and "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan. They are REALLY good!!

Oh and yeah, I've only read a part of "The Second Sex" by de Beauvoir. I found the introduction to be absolutely brilliant but almost as soon as I got into the actual text... it got a little bit scientific and "out of my element." At leas that is what I remember about it.

So yeah, I think that's it for now.