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The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
A monumental collection of Alison Bechdel’s beloved comic strip, documenting twenty-five years of lesbian lives, relationships, and politics with wit, heart, and incisive humor.
- Radical Humor
- LGBTQ+
- Comics
A Forgotten Liberator: The Life and Struggle of Savitribai Phule
Through biography, letters, poetry, and student writing, this collection reconstructs Savitribai Phule’s anti-caste pedagogy and asks why her thought was excluded from national and feminist histories.
- Caste and Gender
- Feminist Education
- Historical Context
The Years
Les AnnéesA collective autobiography capturing the passage of time in French society from the post-war period to the present. A masterpiece by the Nobel Prize winner, inventing a new form of impersonally intimate narrative.
- Memoir
- History
- Class Analysis
The Vegetarian
채식주의자The Vegetarian is a Man Booker International Prize-winning novel by Korean author Han Kang. It tells the story of Yeong-hye, an ordinary housewife who, in order to reject human violence, decides to stop eating meat and eventually wants to transform herself into a tree. It is a fable about female bodily autonomy, refusal of social norms, and the quest for a purely 'harmless' existence in a violent world.
- Body Politics
- Violence Against Women
- Mental Health
Mothers, Monsters, Whores
Laura Sjoberg and Caron E. Gentry analyze how violent women in global politics are explained away through gendered stories of motherhood, monstrosity, or sexuality.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Political Violence
- Gender Politics
Flights
BieguniFlights is a masterpiece by Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, deeply imbued with feminist meaning. Through a constellation of stories about travel, anatomy, and preservation, Tokarczuk challenges traditional patriarchal concepts binding women to 'home' and 'settlement,' proposing a new female subjectivity based on mobility and the radical autonomy of the body.
- Mobility
- Body Politics
- Philosophy
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
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.
- Trans Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Bodily Autonomy
From Where We Stand
Cynthia Cockburn follows women’s antiwar networks across several conflicts, tracing how nationalism, masculinity, racism, and empire make war while examining peace activism’s own contradictions.
- War and Peace
- Social Movements
- Feminist Security Studies
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Prison Abolition
- Race and Gender
- Capitalism Critique
Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers
Nicole Constable centers Filipina migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, showing how recruitment, employment, live-in rules, resistance, and negotiation shape care labor in an Asian global city.
- Migration
- Domestic Labor
- Care Economy
On Black Sisters' Street
A powerful novel by the Nigerian-born author following the lives of four African women working in Antwerp's red-light district. Driven to Europe by poverty, betrayal, and a longing for a better life, they seek to reclaim their identities and find new solidarity amidst cold realities.
- Women's Literature
- Race and Gender
- Poverty and Justice
Turning the Pot, Tilling the Land: Dignity of Labour in Our Times
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd and Durgabai Vyam reclaim labor, technique, and knowledge devalued by caste in a form accessible to younger readers.
- Caste and Gender
- Economic Empowerment
- Decolonial Feminism
King Kong Theory
King Kong ThéorieVirginie Despentes' 'King Kong Theory' is a punk-rock manifesto of modern feminism. Part memoir, part critical theory, it is a raw, angry, and undeniably powerful examination of gender, sexuality, and violence. Despentes writes from the margins - as a former sex worker, a rape survivor, and a punk artist - challenging the sanitized, respectable versions of feminism to embrace the 'ugly', the 'unfuckable', and the dangerous.
- Radical Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Sex Worker Rights
Transgender Rights
This anthology maps transgender civil rights through law, history, public policy, employment, family, healthcare, and movement strategy.
- Trans Feminism
- Legal Equality
- Bodily Autonomy
The Transgender Studies Reader
This reader gathers foundational texts that helped consolidate transgender studies as a field across feminism, queer theory, medicine, law, and history.
- Trans Studies
- Queer Theory
- Feminist Theory
Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women's Testimonios
Sharmila Rege reads Dalit women’s testimonios to reopen the boundaries between literature, oral history, and social science through caste/gender experience.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Feminist Epistemology
Gender and Caste
Anupama Rao’s anthology brings history, political argument, and Dalit women’s testimony together to show how caste and gender jointly organize bodies, labor, law, and intellectual authority.
- Caste and Gender
- Dalit Feminism
- Feminist Theory
The Curious Feminist
Cynthia Enloe turns ‘Where are the women, and who benefits when they are ignored?’ into a method for tracing global power through sneaker factories, militaries, nationalist war, and postwar institutions.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Imperialism Critique
- Militarism
The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba
A comparative study asking what women contribute to revolutions - and what revolutionary movements, victories, defeats, and transitions subsequently do to women and feminist politics.
- Latin American Feminism
- Social Movements
- Socialist Feminism
How Sex Changed
Joanne Meyerowitz writes a social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States.
- Trans Studies
- Historical Context
- Trans Health
Caliban and the Witch
A groundbreaking feminist re-examination of capitalist primitive accumulation that reveals how violent control over women's bodies became foundational to capitalist development.
- Marxist Feminism
- Capitalism Critique
- Historical Context
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
This anthology reframes globalization through women's migration, domestic work, sex work, and care deficits, showing how household convenience in wealthy countries depends on emotional and bodily labor from the Global South.
- Migration
- Care Economy
- Domestic Labor
TechnoFeminism
Judy Wajcman rejects technological determinism and argues that technology and gender are co-produced social relations.
- Digital Feminism
- Feminist Theory
- Technology Critique
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
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.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Men's Rights Movement Critique
- Ethics of Care