Feminism may have its roots in The Age of Enlightenment (circa 1650-1700). Modern Radical Feminism began circa 1975 and may act in misandric ways. There are groups such as http://www.antimisandry.com that oppose misandry.
Readers may be surprised to find, by reading books, that feminism has links to communism and lesbianism, these books may be illuminating:
- A dangerous liaison : a revelatory new biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
- Andrea Dworkin 2nd Ed.
- Debating sexual correctness : pornography, sexual harassment, date rape and the politics of sexual equality
- Deuxième sexe. English The second sex
- Feminism and Marxism : a place to begin, a way to go
- Feminism and methodology : social science issues
- Feminism, marxism, method and the state: an Agenda for Theory
- Feminist interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir
- Feminist jurisprudence
- Going too far : the personal chronicle of a feminist
- Heartbreak : the political memoir of a feminist militant
- Love, power, and knowledge : towards a feminist transformation of the sciences
- Marxism and the interpretation of culture
- Radically speaking : feminism reclaimed
- Sex Equality: Family Law
- Simone de Beauvoir, philosophy & and feminism
- Sisterhood is forever : the women’s anthology for a new millennium
- Sisterhood is global : the international women’s movement anthology
- The conceptual practices of power : a feminist sociology of knowledge