Feminist books that have influenced my understanding of the world: Part II

Last year during Black History month, I made three posts about books dealing with the Black Freedom Struggle that influenced how I saw the world. Now that we are in Women’s History Month, I want to do the same thing in regards to books by women, particularly feminists that influenced my understanding of the world.

I say feminist writers, as Women’s History month has evolved to the point where it is centered on identity politics, rather than the being rooted in the origins of International Women’s Day.

Last week, in Part I, I shared the titles of books that I read in the 80s and early 90s that challenged my understanding of myself and the world around me. In today’s post, most of these books are from the late 1990s and early 2000’s.

Feminist Freedom Warriors: Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope, edited by Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda E. Carty

Global Obscenities: Patriarchy, Capitalism, and the Lure of Cyberfantasy, by Zillah Eisenstein

All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life, by Winona Laduke

Ecofeminism and the Sacred, edited by Carol Adams

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, by bell hooks

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile, Conversations with Arrundhati Roy, Interviews by David Barsamian

The Revolution Will Not be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

Globalization & Militarism: Feminists Make the Link, by Cynthia Enloe 

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black, by bell hooks

Policing the National Body: Race, Gender, and Criminalization, Edited by Joel Sillman and Anannya Bhattacharjee