WOMEN IN GENERAL

Amott, Teresa L., and Julie Matthaei, Race, Gender, and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the United States (Boston, MA : South End Press, c1996).  HQ1410 .A46 1996
Cohen, Marcia, The Sisterhood: The True Story of the Women Who Changed the World (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988).  Lives of second-wave activists Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, and Kate Millett.  HQ1426 .C626 1988
Collins, Gail, America's Women : Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (Perennial paperback, 2004).
Collins, Patricia Hill, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, second edition (New York: Routledge, 2000). Recommended: intersection theory.  HQ1426 .C633 1991 (first edition)
Ehrenreich, Barbara  and Arlie Russell Hochschild, eds., Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (Metropolitan Books, 2003) 
Evans, Sara, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America (New York: Free Press, 1991).  HQ1410 .E83 1991
Faludi, Susan, Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women (New York: Anchor Books, 1992).  Examines 1980s antifeminist backlash in popular culture and theories.  HQ1426 .F35 1992
Folbre, Nancy, The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values (New York: New Press, 2001)
Freedman, Estelle B., No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women (New York: Ballantine Books,2002).  HQ1121 .F74 2002
Hernandez, Daisy and Bushra Rehman, Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism (Seal Press, 2002). Young women of color speak their experiences and perspectives.  HQ1161 .C65 2002
Higgenbotham, Elizabeth and Mary Romero, eds., Exploring Race, Ethnicity, and Class (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1997).  HD6050 .W558 v. 6
Hochschild, Arlie Russell, The Second Shift (New York: Avon Books, 1989).  HQ536 .H57 1989b
Hochschild, Arlie Russell, The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (New York: Metropolitan Books, 1997).  HQ536 .H633 1997
hooks, bell, Feminism Is For Everybody (Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 2001).  CCSF: HQ1190 .H67 2000
hooks, bell, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 2000).  CCSF: HQ1426 .H675 2000 
hooks, bell, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (Boston, Ma.: South End Press, 1989).  E185.86 .H74 1989
Hymowitz, Carol and Michaele Weissman, A History of Women in America (Bantam, 1984).  HQ1410.H95
Kerber, Linda K., and Jane Sherron De Hart, Women’s America: Refocusing the Past (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).  HQ1426 .W663 1991
Kessler-Harris, Alice, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982).  HD6095 .K449 1982
Lerner, Gerda, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).  HQ1121 .L47 1986 v.2
Lerner, Gerda, The Creation of Patriarchy (New York : Oxford University Press, 1986).  HQ1121 .L47 1986 v.1
Louie, Miriam Ching Yoon, Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory (Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 2001).  HD6057.5.U5 L68 2001
Morgan, Robin, Ed., Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement (New York: Vintage Books, 1970).  Many classic writings.  HQ1426 .M85
Orenstein, Peggy, School Girls : Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence gap (New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1995).  From interviews with white, black, and Latina California teens.  HQ798 .O74 1995
Ruddick, Sara and Pamela Daniels, eds., with a foreword by Adrienne Rich, Working It Out: 23 Women Writers, Artists, Scientists, and Scholars Talk about their Lives and Work (New York: Pantheon Books, 1977).  Inspiring and practical suggestions.  HQ1123 .W64
Schulman, Beth, The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans (New Press, 2003).  Moving portraits of working poor, especially women, with suggestions for change.
Takaki, Ron, A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity with Voices (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1998).  U.S. multicultural history through letters, diaries, oral histories.  E184.A1 T3375 1998
Takaki, Ron, ed., From Different Shores: Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).  E184.A1 F745 1994
Tea, Michelle, ed., Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2003).  Personal stories.  On order for CCSF Library.
Wolf, Naomi, The Beauty Myth : How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (Perennial, 2002).  HQ1219 .W65 1992
Zinn, Maxine Baca and Bonnie Thornton Dill, eds., Women of Color in U.S. Society (Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, c1994).  Classic selections.  HQ1421 .W655 1994

AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN (and men)

Browne, Irene, ed.,  Latinas and African American Women at Work : Race, Gender, and Economic Inequality (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999).  HD6057.5.U5 L37 1999
Hine, Darlene Clark and Kathleen Thompson, A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America (New York: Broadway Books, 1998).   E185.86 .H68 1998
hooks, bell, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 1981). Classic analysis.  E185.86 .H73 1981
Jones, Jacqueline, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow : Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (New York: Basic Books, 1985).  HD6057.5.U5 J66 1985
Marable, Manning, and Mullings, Leith, eds., Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: an African American Anthology (Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2000).  E184.6 .L48 2000

ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN (and men)
Chang, Iris, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History (New York: Viking, 2003).  E184.C5 C444 2003
Louie, Miriam Ching Yoon, Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory (Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 2001).  HD6057.5.U5 L68 2001
Nam, Vickie, ed., Yell-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American (Quill, 2001).  Lots of short personal pieces by teenage Asian American women.
Takaki, Ron, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).  E184.O6 T35 1990

LATINA/HISPANIC WOMEN (and men)

Browne, Irene, ed.,  Latinas and African American Women at Work : Race, Gender, and Economic Inequality (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999).  HD6057.5.U5 L37 1999
Romero, Mary, Maid in the U.S.A. (New York: Routledge, 1992).  Lives of Chicana domestic workers. HD6072.2.U5 R675 1992

LESBIANS AND LGBTQ

Faderman, Lillian, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th-Century America (Penguin, 1991)  HQ75.6.U5 F33 1991
Faderman, Lillian, To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America – a History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999).  HQ75.6.U5 F35 1999
Sears, James T. and Walter L. Williams, eds., Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia: Strategies That Work (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).  HQ76.3.U5 O994 1997