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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
The moving memoir of the girl who fought for her right to education and survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban at age fifteen. A powerful record of life in Pakistan's Swat Valley, family bonds, and the courage of an individual standing against extremist oppression.
- Political Participation
- Women's Rights
- Social Movements
Braiding Sweetgrass
Combining Indigenous wisdom with scientific knowledge to explore the relationship between humans and nature, proposing ecofeminist practices based on reciprocity and gratitude.
- Ecofeminism
- Indigenous Feminism
- Climate Justice
Seriously!
Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women MatteredCynthia Enloe links financial crisis, recession, peacekeeping and revolution to a feminist question: who gets to define what counts as serious?
- Feminist Security Studies
- Political Participation
- Economic Empowerment
Gendering Global Conflict
Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of WarLaura Sjoberg’s feminist theory of war shows how gender shapes what counts as conflict, who is imagined to act, and whose lives are treated as expendable.
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
- Gender Politics
The Transgender Studies Reader 2
A 50-essay map of trans studies after its first reader, tracing how race, migration, disability, state power, and local histories unsettle universal accounts of gender.
- Trans Studies
- Intersectional Feminism
- Queer Theory
Feminist, Queer, Crip
Alison Kafer's Feminist, Queer, Crip asks who gets included in feminist and queer futures, using disability, reproductive politics, environmental justice, and access to challenge ableist ideas of a 'better life.'
- Disability Justice
- Queer Theory
- Feminist Theory
Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice
Joan C. Tronto recasts care as a central public concern of democracy, asking who sustains life, who is permitted to evade care, and how markets produce a democratic care deficit.
- Care Economy
- Domestic Labor
- Economic Empowerment
Mom & Me & Mom
The final autobiography written by the legendary poet Maya Angelou. Addressing her early abandonment by her mother, years of estrangement, and a dramatic eventual reconciliation, this work beautifully maps how one woman learned to be independent, to forgive, and to blossom into a world-renowned writer through the complexities of maternal love.
- Women's History
- Women's Literature
- Race and Gender
Diving into the Wreck
When discussing feminist poetry, it's impossible not to mention Adrienne Rich, one of the most widely read poets of the 20th century and a renowned intersectional feminist activist. Our recommended best introductory poetry collection: 'Diving into the Wreck,' a particularly lyrical and emotionally charged collection of poems - including 'Rape,' a narrative poem often considered one of Rich's most important works.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Radical Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
Making Peace with the Earth
Vandana Shiva links land, water, climate, forests, food and seed struggles to corporate power, ecological debt and the gendered labor that sustains life.
- Ecofeminism
- Climate Justice
- Capitalism Critique
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
A transformative call to action for women worldwide from former Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. By addressing leadership in the workplace, the balance of domestic labor, and the affirmation of personal ambition, Sandberg ignited a global 'Lean In' movement that serves as a modern business bible for women.
- Political Participation
- Women's Rights
- Social Movements
Against the Madness of Manu: B.R. Ambedkar's Writings on Brahmanical Patriarchy
Sharmila Rege curates Ambedkar’s writings on Brahmanical patriarchy, foregrounding anti-caste thought as a deeply feminist critique.
- Brahmanical Patriarchy
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
Women and Wars
Carol Cohn’s feminist security studies collection traces gender through war economies, sexual violence, displacement, militaries, peace processes, and postwar life.
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Nationalism and Gender: Revised Edition
ナショナリズムとジェンダー 新版Ueno examines women’s incorporation into the nation, survivor testimony and feminist disputes over responsibility in the revised Japanese edition.
- Nationalism
- Citizenship
- War and Peace
Sex and Desire in Hong Kong
Ho and Tsang use Hong Kong experiences to question expert authority, sexual hierarchies and research language, treating everyday accounts of desire as knowledge.
- Sexuality
- Body Politics
- Gender Norms
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation
Beth E. Richie examines violence against Black women and how racialized policing and punitive policy undermine their protection.
- Black Feminism
- Carceral Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir asks how a daughter can narrate a living mother without mistaking memory for shared truth, using comics form and psychoanalysis to examine intimacy, art, and self-making.
- Mother-Daughter Relationships
- Graphic Memoir
- Queer Theory
The Barefoot Woman
La femme aux pieds nusMukasonga remembers her mother's survival work, storytelling and an unfulfilled farewell, asking how care can be honored without making sacrifice women's duty.
- African Feminism
- Life Writing
- Motherhood
The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
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.
- Emotional Labor
- Workplace Equality
- Gender Norms
Suite for Barbara Loden
Supplément à la vie de Barbara LodenNathalie Léger entwines film description, biographical fragments and a mother-daughter exchange to ask how to approach a woman without appropriating her story.
- Women's Literature
- Women's Cinema
- Life Writing
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Anzaldúa writes across languages and borders to examine how mestiza consciousness challenges fixed identities and exclusionary forms of belonging.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Postcolonial Feminism
- Queer Theory
Feminism and Migration
A feminist collection spanning Western and non-Western settings that asks when migration enables agency and when it reorganizes labor, identity, and control.
- Migration
- Transnational Feminism
- Labor Rights
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
Saba Mahmood’s ethnography of Cairo’s women’s mosque movement challenges feminist theories that recognize agency only as resistance to norms and asks how ethical subjects are formed through embodied religious practice.
- Arab Feminism
- Religion and Gender
- Feminist Theory
Feminist Disability Studies
Edited by Kim Q. Hall, this collection links feminist theory and disability studies across embodiment, literature, race, citizenship, sexuality, and the politics of visibility.
- Disability Justice
- Feminist Theory
- Feminist Philosophy