📚 Books

Combining Indigenous wisdom with scientific knowledge to explore the relationship between humans and nature, proposing ecofeminist practices based on reciprocity and gratitude.

Halberstam challenges success standards in heteronormative capitalist society, exploring the productive potential of failure as a form of resistance. Through analysis of popular culture and queer theory, the author proposes 'low theory' as a mode of thinking and writing, redefining failure not as deficiency but as a strategy for subverting mainstream values.

A groundbreaking manifesto of transgender feminism. From the unique perspective of a transgender woman, Serano deeply analyzes the intrinsic connection between transphobia and sexism, revealing society's systematic devaluation and violence against femininity.

First published in 2007 and translated into English in 2015, this modern allegorical novel explores what happens when a housewife refuses to fulfill the role society expects of her. When Young-hye, a housewife and graphic designer living in Seoul, awakens from a violent nightmare about animal cruelty, she immediately decides to become a vegetarian. This seemingly harmless decision leads to Young-hye being ostracized by her family and her own mental and physical deterioration.

A groundbreaking feminist re-examination of capitalist primitive accumulation that reveals how violent control over women's bodies became foundational to capitalist development.

Deeply analyzes how patriarchy harms men, explores how men can participate in feminist movements, and advocates for building new masculinity based on love and equality.

Redefining the meaning of love, exploring how love can become the foundation for resisting oppression and building a just society, proposing an ethic of love as the core of social transformation.

bell hooks' accessible introduction to feminism that articulates the core concepts of feminist thought in clear, simple language, emphasizing that feminism is not just for women but a political movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and sexist oppression that benefits everyone.

A foundational text of the transgender rights movement, exploring the oppressive nature of gender binaries and advocating for the liberation of all gender expressions.

Revolutionary feminist theatrical work that breaks gender taboos through direct expression of women's bodily experiences, laying foundations for global anti-sexual violence movements.

A groundbreaking work in transgender theory that challenges the binary gender system, explores gender fluidity and performativity, and provides theoretical foundations for non-binary gender identity.

Almost any Octavia E. Butler novel is feminist required reading: her Afrofuturistic science fiction published between 1976 and 2005 offers visionary explorations of new worlds and eternal ethical dilemmas. We recommend starting with 'Parable of the Sower,' the first novel in Butler's post-apocalyptic Earthseed duology.

The myth of the wild woman exists in various cultures, from fairy tales to folk legends. Often she is portrayed as a fearsome being, but in Jungian analyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés's assessment, she is something completely different: an inner leader and behavioral pattern capable of guiding women on their own healing journey. First published in 1992, Women Who Run with the Wolves earned Estés praise from many of her feminist contemporaries—including Alice Walker and Maya Angelou, two other authors on this list.

This groundbreaking work systematically articulates Black feminist epistemology, introducing key concepts like the 'matrix of domination' and 'controlling images.' Collins demonstrates how Black women develop unique standpoint epistemology, resisting multiple oppressions through self-definition and self-valuation, providing a comprehensive theoretical framework for intersectionality theory and Black women's knowledge traditions.

This groundbreaking work fundamentally redefined feminist theory's understanding of gender by introducing the theory of gender performativity. Butler challenges the notion that gender is a biological fact or fixed identity, arguing that gender is produced through repetitive performative acts—a theoretical framework that radically transformed feminist theory, queer theory, and gender studies.