Women's Liberation
“Out of the conflict between our pain and the way we were socialized has been born a new creation: the women's liberation movement. Out of the conflict between the women’s liberation movement and society will be born a creature who does not yet exist: a liberated woman."
—Meredith Tax, Woman and Her Mind: The Story of Daily Life
This germinal essay of the women’s liberation movement was published by the Free Press in 1970.
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Working Women’s Music: The Songs and Struggles of Women in the Cotton Mills, Textile Plants and Needle Trades
Uncertain, Coy, and Hard to Please
The Hidden History of the Female: The Early Feminist Movement in the United States
Goldflower’s Story: A Peasant Woman in the Chinese Revolution
The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation
Feeding Ourselves
Berkeley Women’s Health Collective
Marxism: A Syllabus Designed for a Women's Course
Sisters, Brothers, Lovers . . . Listen
Black Panther Sisters Talk About Women’s Liberation (reprinted from The Movement)
Poor Black Women (Including: Birth Control Pills and Black Children; A Response)
Black Unity Party; Black Sisters; Robinson, Patricia
The False Promise: Professionalism in Nursing
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Boston Women’s Health Collective
Women and Their Bodies
Boston Women’s Health Collective
Boston Women’s Poetry Anthology
Day Care, Who Cares?: Corporate and Government Child Care Plans
Songs of Self-Assertion: Women in Country Music
Bufwack, Mary A. & Robert K. Oerman
Women and the Socialist Party, 1901-1914
Sexual Harassment at the Workplace: Historical Notes
High School Women: Oppression & Liberation
The Bottle Baby Scandal: Milking the Third World for All its Worth
Birth Control Handbook
Cherniak, Donna & Allen Feingold
VD Handbook
Cherniak, Donna; Allen Feingold & Members of the Montreal Health Collective
The Political Economy of Male Chauvinism
Christoffel, Tom & Katherine Kaufer
The Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves
Women’s Place is at the Typewriter: The Feminization of the Clerical Labor Force
Jumping the Track (High School Tracking)
Sex Roles and Female Oppression: A Collection of Articles
Struggling Into Existence: The Feminism of Sarah and Angelina Grimke
Female Liberation as the Basis for Social Revolution
Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual politics of Sickness
Ehrenreich, Barbara & Deirdre English
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Ehrenreich, Barbara & Deirdre English
The Early Development of the Family
More Than a Choice; Women Talk about Abortion, Abortion Action Coalition
Erlien, Marla; Madge Kaplan & Julie Palmer
Women and Psychology
Feminist Studies Program of Cambridge-Goddard Graduate School
Class and Self-image: A Women’s Group Talks about Personal Power and Powerlessness
Foote, Trudy; Susan Holbert; Ilze Petersons; Badgie Rankin; Carlene Taillon
Getting Together: How to Start a Women’s Liberation Group
Freeman, Jane & Marge Piercy (Outreach Committee; Cape Cod Women’s Liberation)
Women’s Work is Never Done: A Dramatic Reading on the History of Working Women in America
Women in American Society
Gordon, Ann D. & Mari Jo Buhle, Nancy Schrom Dye
The Fourth Mountain: Women in China
Sex, Family, and the New Right
Gordon, Linda & Allen Hunter
Liberating Young Children From Sex Roles: Experiences in Day Care Centers, Play Groups, and Free Schools
On Day Care
Gross, Louisen & Phyllis MacEwan
Women’s Place in the Integrated Circuit
I Don't Want to Change My Lifestyle, I Want to Change My Life
Hopper, Peggy & Steve Soldz
Toward a Female Liberation Movement
Jones, Beverly & Judith Brown
The Place of American Women: Economic Exploitation
The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm
The Women of the Telephone Company
Towards a Science of Women’s Liberation: An Analysis from Cuba
Larguia, Isabel & John Dumoulin
What’s a Wife Worth?
Leghorn, Lisa & Betsey Warrior
Protecting Women Out of Their Jobs
Liberation of Women: Sexual repression and the Family
Mother Jones, Woman Organizer
Experiences in Day Care Centers, Play Groups, and Free Schools
The Politics of Housework
On-the-job Oppression of Working Women: A Collection of Articles
Mainardi, Pat; Shulamith Firestone; Jean Tepperman; Anonymous
My Mother and I are Growing Strong (Mi Mama y yo nos Hacemos Fuertes)
Bread and Roses (from Leviathan #3)
McAfee, Kathy & Myrna Wood
What Is the Revolutionary Potential of Women's Liberation?
McAfee, Kathy & Myrna Wood
Women: The Longest Revolution
A Handbook on Sexual Assault
The History of Our Struggle Against Levi-Strauss
Women's Liberation Stickers (8 1/2 x 11 sheet of one dozen)
The Gun is Loaded: Images of Women in Advertising
Woman Identified Woman & A Letter from Mary
Women and Socialism; Women in the Liberation Struggle; An Overview; Ma Bell Has Fleas–And a Lot of Angry Workers
Getting Stronger: Women Workers Organize the Abortion Clinics
The Myth of Women’s Inferiority
Which Way to the Revolution?
Rihn, Shashana & Mary Jezer
The Politics of Health Care, An Annotated Bibliography
Rosenberg, Ken & Gordon Schiff, eds.
How the Russian Revolution Failed Women
What Have Women Done? A Photo Essay
San Francisco Women's History Group, The (Kathleen Drolet, Peggy Elwell, Minnie Favre, Melanie Jennings, Carol Tokeshi)
The Building Blocks of Parent Decision-making
The Lonely Girl in the Big City
Woman and Her Mind: The Story of Daily Life
Sixty Words a Minute and What Do You Get? Clerical Workers Today
Birth Control, Abortion, Venereal Diseases
Books by Women (and Some Men) Relevant to Women’s Liberation
A Revolution Within a Revolution: Women in Guinea-Bissau