📚 Books

Exposes how beauty standards have become a new tool for controlling women, analyzing the impact of consumer culture on women's bodies and psyche.

An important collection of speeches and essays by veteran political activist Angela Y. Davis, focusing on transformations in conversations about sexism, racism, and economic equality in the late 20th century. From stories of female circumcision in Egypt to examinations of rap lyrics, to the personal politics of race, Davis's sharp and accomplished essays establish her place among the important contemporary feminist voices.

This foundational work of ecofeminism reveals how the development paradigm threatens survival itself through violence against nature and women. Through the experiences and perspectives of rural Indian women, Shiva demonstrates how patriarchal development models simultaneously destroy ecosystems and marginalize women, arguing for women's central role as biodiversity custodians in ecological regeneration.

This groundbreaking semi-autobiographical work explores Mexican-American women's border identity through a blend of poetry and prose. Anzaldúa introduces the concept of 'new mestiza consciousness,' challenging traditional binary thinking and understanding borders as psychological, social, and cultural hybrid zones.

Traces the origins and development of patriarchy from a historical perspective, providing crucial understanding of the historical roots of gender oppression.

The Emmy Award-winning television series source material, the gold standard of feminist speculative fiction. The story follows Offred, a fertile woman forced to survive as a member of the servant class in a dystopian near-future, where they are used as reproductive tools for the ruling class. In an era when women's reproductive rights remain politically sensitive, Atwood's groundbreaking novel remains profoundly relevant more than 30 years later.

A classic collection by the master of science fiction feminist literature Butler, featuring the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning titular novella that explores gender roles, power relationships, and identity through interspecies dynamics.

This classic work by the American Black feminist theorist re-examines feminism from an intersectional perspective, emphasizing the multiple oppressions of race, class, and gender, laying the theoretical foundation for inclusive feminism.

A foundational work of intersectional feminist theory. Through fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde explores the intersectional oppression of race, gender, class, and sexuality, creating a revolutionary theoretical framework for understanding multiple identities.

A collection of essays, speeches, and reviews spanning 20 years by Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker, focusing on the intersection of personal and political, from civil rights movement to anti-nuclear sentiment, from literary criticism to personal reflections of Black women, mothers, and feminists. Called 'womanist prose' by the author, it provides profound perspectives for understanding late 20th-century feminism.

This groundbreaking book introduces the concept of 'emotional labor' through an examination of how service workers, particularly flight attendants, are required to manage their emotions as part of their job. Hochschild explores how capitalism commercializes human feelings and the gendered implications of emotional work in the modern economy.

A classic work of radical feminist philosophy. Through nine profound essays, Frye systematically analyzes the structural nature of oppression from a philosophical epistemological perspective, exploring core concepts and fundamental issues in feminist theory.

This groundbreaking work challenges male-centric theories of moral development, proposing an alternative model of moral reasoning based on care, relationships, and responsibility. By listening to women's voices, Gilligan discovered the 'ethics of care' as a different moral voice, fundamentally transforming psychology's, ethics', and feminist theory's understanding of moral development.

This groundbreaking work examines the experiences of Black women from slavery to the present, analyzing how the intersection of sexism and racism creates unique forms of oppression. hooks critiques both the racism of white feminism and the sexism of Black liberation movements, arguing that anti-racist and anti-sexist struggles are inseparable, laying the foundation for later intersectionality theory.

A groundbreaking collection of writings by radical women of color that brought together diverse racial voices, critiqued the limitations of white feminism, and advanced intersectional feminist development.