I recommend Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde. Her essays blew me away and explained intersectionality in a way that made sense to me for the first time, although she didn't use that word because it's an older work. It was one of those books I got from the library and about 30 pages in I knew I wanted my own copy.
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Definitely bell hooks Just finished The Trouble with White Women by Kyla Schuller
Reading Judith Butler right now Undoing Gender
So many, but that's a really really wide topic and also different "levels" and I don't know if you're looking for introductions or for very specific stuff!
Here's a small selection of things I enjoyed reading, though:
Books
Nonfiction
- Pretty much everything by bell hooks, especially Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center for a general overview and The will to change specifically aimed at men
- The Guilty Feminist (also a podcast)
- Whipping Girl, specifically about trans women
Fiction
- The first woman, on the birth of modern feminism in Uganda