Reliving Feminism

Women Making Informed Choices
Kirsten Powers says, "Women are not delicate little flowers who can’t handle information, despite what NARAL Pro Choice and Planned Parenthood tell us. They should have the option of having all the information presented to them before an abortion so they understand what they are doing.
[...] as a person who cares about women’s rights, I would be enormously pleased if the people who claim to be "pro-choice" would embrace a wider array of choices for women dealing with unwanted pregnancies, rather than trying to bully any organization offering abortion alternatives out of existence."
Women should be "doing" it for the right reasons, not the wrong ones. The right reasons are, you are attracted to the person (soberly), and you want to have sex because it feels good or you want to bond with them. Having sex just to procreate, or to please a person other than yourself is the wrong reasons. Sex is about pleasure, and it's time women began to do it for their own Os, (orgasms)!
Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti is a juvenile book, but it's a good start at looking at some issues that face women now in a male-dominated world. It's a good idea to read feminist books or books about amazing women as the heroine, because frankly, women are amazing and capable of super-extraordinary things. Some books I recommend are: Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich, 1980 "which argues that heterosexuality is a violent political institution making way for the "male right of physical, economical, and emotional access" to women. She urges women to direct their energies towards other women rather than men, and portrays lesbianism as an extension of feminism. Rich challenges the notion of women's dependence on men as social and economic supports, as well as for adult sexuality and psychological completion. She calls for what she describes as a greater understanding of lesbian experience, and believes that once such an understanding is obtained, these boundaries will be widened and women will be able to experience the "erotic" in female terms." wikipedia.org.com
Our Bodies, Ourselves is also a good book about women's health, written by women for women. A highly regarded book, which should be at the top is "The Second Sex" written by highly acclaimed female author Simone de Beavoir in 1949. It is a work on the treatment of women throughout history and often regarded as a major work of feminist literature.

"sex is not something natural, nor is it something completely determinate and definable. Rather, sex is part of a system of meaning, produced by language. Frug argues that "cultural mechanisms ... encode the female body with meanings," and that these cultural mechanisms then go on explain these meanings "by an appeal to the 'natural' differences between the sexes, differences that the rules themselves help to produce."[2] Rejecting the idea of a natural basis to sexual difference allows us to see that it is always susceptible to new interpretations. Like other systems of meaning, it is less like a cage, and more like a tool: it constrains but never completely determines what one can do with it." -
Mary Joe Frug