Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici. It is a Marxist analysis of the naturalization of women's reproductive labor during the industrial revolution.
The nitty gritty of the history aspect is on somewhat shaky ground but otherwise, it's definitely a great book from a theoretical perspective.
I was told not to read this book because it's "transphobic." All the more reason to read it now.
I don't want to monopolize the discussion but aside from the great stuff that's already been mentioned
In no particular order:
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Laugh of Medusa by Helene Cixous
Right-Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin.
Under Western Eyes by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Abdullah Öcalan's book needs to be subtracted. Obviously as a man you can terrify your wife and still write a much-read book about feminism.
The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler, The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner
Eisler and Lerner are both excellent authors.
The Chalice and the Blade changed my whole worldview. I was becoming pretty blackpilled
This book sounds really nice. I'm adding it to my reading list, thank you for mentioning it!
Women and Economics (1898) by Charlotte Perkins. You can read it on Project Gutenberg here.
I quite like Zami and Your Silence Will Not Protect you by Audre Lorde; it explores how both class and race intersect with womanhood.
I think Women's Ways of Knowing and Reproducing Motherhood were pretty influential to me. Alice Jaggar's "Love and Knowlege" too. You can probably see i like epistemology...
I would probably add bell hooks, if her work is too daunting, start with Belonging: a culture of place. And some of the older internationalists like Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands.
I'm surprised to see Engles. Don't get me wrong, he's influential, i'm just not sure he's a feminist.
I would replace Angela Davis with Ayaan Hirsi Ali and add some Dworken titles
Maybe it would be equal adding my basics, so I want to replace the chart with:
These are excellent recs, thank you.