Introduction to feminism/general feminism
Reclaiming the F Word – Catherine Redfern & Kristin Aune
The Equality Illusion – Kat Banyard
Feminism Is For Everyone – bell hooks
Feminist Theory – From Margin to Centre – bell hooks
The Women’s Room – Marilyn French
The Feminine Mystique – Betty Friedan
Backlash – Susan Faludi
Delusions of Gender – Cordelia Fine
Christianity/feminism
Created or Constructed: The Great Gender Debate – Elaine Storkey
A Year of Biblical Womanhood – Rachel Held Evans
The Liberating Truth – Danielle Strickland
Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy – Ronald W. Pierce and Rebecca Merrill Groothuis
In Memory of Her: Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins – Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
I Suffer Not a Woman: Rethinking 1 Timothy 2:11-15 in Light of Ancient Evidence – Richard Clark Kroeger & Catherine Clark Kroeger
Faith and Feminism – Nicola Slee
Gender and Grace – Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
General Christianity
Doing Contextual Theology – Angie Pears
Praying Like A Woman – Nicola Slee
VAW
Why Does He Do That? – Lundy Bancroft
Pornland – Gail Dines
Masculinity
Men and Masculinities: Key Themes and New Directions – Stephen M. Whitehead
The Masculinity Conspiracy – Joseph Gelfer
Fathers and Sons: The Search for a New Masculinity – Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, Roy McCloughry & Elaine Storkey
Good choice of reading materials there. Can I suggest adding “The Beauty Myth” by Naomi Wolf to the general feminism section? I think it is very relevant for Christians and Feminists.
Thanks for this list. Sara Maitland is a feminist theologian and novelist who has been writing about women and Christianity since the 1970s. People might be interested to read ‘A map of the new country: women and Christianity’ (1983) or ‘A Big-Enough God: artful theology’ (1995), her novel ‘Virgin Territory’ (amongst others), and a number of short-story collections in which she considers women from the bible.
I’m looking for suggestions of Christian fiction (books that are marketed as Christian fiction, not just writers with a Christian background) that are non-misogynistic or possibly feminist. Can you all help me out?