Backlash is somewhat out of date and can come across a little conspiracy-theorist to the uninitiated, I think, but has the benefit of being occasionally completely hilarious.

This isn’t really current, but some of Gloria Steinem’s old essays (the collections is I believe called Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions) still ring pretty powerful for me (even though I’m only 20 and wasn’t even alive when Steinem was the face of feminism), and they are definitely easy to read. She isn’t perfect by any means, but her style is impassioned and smart and she does touch on things still being discussed–and because it’s a collection of essays, she touches on all sorts of things, which both displays how feminism is applicable all over the place, and opens up avenes of further inquiry.

And I second the Sarah Bunting “Yes, You Are” essay up there.

This is a particularly good book for men, as Johnson does a great job of anticipating objections and questions that are likely to occur to male readers in particular and addressing them. But I think it’s a good book for anyone; I see it recommended in a lot of Women’s Studies courses.