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New to feminist reading, or not sure where to begin? Pick the path that sounds like you.
Each path is a short reading list chosen by the Reading Room, in the order we suggest reading it. Books marked Free to read have a legal free copy you can read or borrow online.
I’m new to feminism
Short, clear books for anyone new to feminist ideas. Start with Kamla Bhasin and work your way out.
What Is Patriarchy? by Kamla Bhasin
Understanding Gender by Kamla Bhasin
Seeing Like a Feminist by Nivedita Menon
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf7 books · 1 free to read online
Open the reading pathI’m a student
The readers and histories that most Indian gender studies courses build on, plus the global classics they argue with.
Women's Studies in India: A Reader by ed. Mary E. John
Feminism in India by ed. Maitrayee Chaudhuri
Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History by ed. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid
The History of Doing by Radha Kumar
Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens by Uma Chakravarti8 books · 2 free to read online
Open the reading pathI want to understand caste and gender
Dalit feminist thought, testimony and history: why caste and gender cannot be read apart.
Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens by Uma Chakravarti
Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women's Testimonios by Sharmila Rege
We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement by Urmila Pawar and Meenakshi Moon
The Prisons We Broke by Baby Kamble
The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs by Urmila Pawar8 books
Open the reading pathI want queer feminist writing
Queer lives, desire and theory, from Indian literature and history to the books that changed the conversation.
Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History by ed. Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai
The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story by A. Revathi
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa6 books · 3 free to read online
Open the reading pathI want feminist fiction and memoir
Stories first: novels, short stories, poetry and memoir by women writing their own lives and worlds.
Sultana's Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Breast Stories by Mahasweta Devi, trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
My Story by Kamala Das
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi8 books · 2 free to read online
Open the reading pathI want to understand women and the law
How the law sees women, and how women have pushed back: rights, courts, violence and public space in India.
Law and Gender Inequality: The Politics of Women's Rights in India by Flavia Agnes
Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law by Nivedita Menon
The Scandal of the State by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan6 books
Open the reading pathCome to a free online Book Meet Sunday, every other Sunday. Read the book, part of it, or just come and listen.