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My Brilliant Friend
L'amica genialeIn 1950s Naples, Elena and Lila’s friendship is shaped by unequal schooling, class barriers, and gendered violence in the first Neapolitan novel.
- Female Friendship
- Class Analysis
- Education
The Second Sex
Le Deuxième SexeSimone de Beauvoir’s 1949 feminist study examines how biology, history, work, sexuality, and cultural myths shape women’s lived situation. Its account of becoming, embodiment, and freedom remains influential - and demands critical reading across race, class, colonial history, and gender diversity.
- Existentialist Feminism
- Second Wave Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
Feminist Security Studies
Annick T. R. Wibben uses narrative analysis to show how security stories define threats, authorize responses, and exclude situated experiences.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Feminist Epistemology
- War and Peace
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
The authors trace how queer criminal stereotypes shape policing, courts, and prisons, turning sexuality and gender expression into suspicion.
- Queer Theory
- Prison Abolition
- Carceral Feminism
Dalit Women Speak Out: Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India
Drawing on 500 Dalit women’s narratives across four Indian states, this study traces gendered violence through caste, class, land, and barriers to justice.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Anti-Sexual Violence
A Gardener in the Wasteland: Jotiba Phule's Fight for Liberty
Srividya Natarajan and Aparajita Ninan rework Jotiba Phule’s 1873 anti-caste text as a graphic argument about caste, literacy, Savitribai, and the politics of representation.
- Caste and Gender
- Feminist Art
- Historical Context
The Queer Art of Failure
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.
- Trans Feminism
- Queer Theory
- Capitalism Critique
Misogyny
女ぎらい：ニッポンのミソジニーMisogyny is a major work by Japanese sociologist and feminist scholar Chizuko Ueno. The book deeply analyzes the pervasive phenomenon of misogyny in Japanese society, revealing how it exists in various hidden forms within families, workplaces, romantic relationships, and even within women's own consciousness. It is essential reading for understanding the mechanisms of misogyny in East Asian patriarchal societies.
- Feminist Theory
- Patriarchy Critique
- Gender Norms
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
Gender, War, and Militarism
Edited by Laura Sjoberg and Sandra E. Via, these seventeen feminist essays examine how military institutions, wartime violence, peacebuilding, and public memory reproduce gendered power.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Militarism
- War and Peace
The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story
A. Revathi’s autobiography records gender, family expulsion, labor, survival, and dignity in hijra communities, bringing South Asian trans experience into feminist mapping.
- Queer Theory
- Caste and Gender
- Trans Feminism
Nimo's War, Emma's War
Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq WarCynthia Enloe reads the Iraq War through eight Iraqi and American women, showing how gender shapes security, work, military service, and care - and why its costs continue after combat fades from view.
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
- Imperialism Critique
Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas
From a family’s testimony in Ciudad Juárez to the Cotton Field judgment, this anthology asks how gendered violence is documented and how states are held accountable.
- Latin American Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Human Rights
Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Elizabeth Maier and Nathalie Lebon’s anthology traces four decades of women’s organizing, citizenship struggles, and feminist politics across Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Latin American Feminism
- Political Participation
- Social Justice
The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir
A raw and powerful record of a girl growing up amidst poverty, violence, and rigid social expectations in Jamaica, winning her freedom through poetry and her own voice. It reveals the truth behind the illusion of 'paradise' while exploring biracial identity, sexuality, and the reclamation of self.
- Women's Literature
- Race and Gender
- Intersectional Feminism
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander argues that the War on Drugs and mass incarceration rebuild racial caste through formally colorblind law.
- Prison Abolition
- Race and Gender
- Black Feminism
No Logo
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand BulliesNaomi Klein's seminal manifesto against corporate globalization analyzes the shift from manufacturing products to marketing brands, exposing the hidden costs of consumer culture on labor rights, public space, and individual choice.
- Consumerism Critique
- Globalization
- Corporate Power
The Women's Room
Marilyn French's bestselling 1977 novel follows Mira Ward from postwar marriage and unpaid domestic work back to Harvard, asking how economic dependence, women's solidarity, sexual violence, and race shape feminist freedom.
- Feminist Fiction
- Marriage Critique
- Identity and Selfhood
Patriarchy and Capitalism
家父長制と資本制Patriarchy and Capitalism is a representative theoretical work by Japanese feminist scholar Chizuko Ueno, systematically analyzing how patriarchy and capitalism operate together as two exploitation systems, causing double oppression of women. This book is a classic text of Marxist feminism, invaluable for understanding the economic significance of women's unpaid domestic labor.
- Marxist Feminism
- Women's Work
- Feminist Theory
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou recounts a Black girlhood shaped by racism, sexual violence, and abandonment, tracing how memory and language help form a self beyond imposed silence.
- Black Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
- Women's Literature
Gendered Trajectories: Women, Work, and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan
Using historical trends, surveys, and interviews, Wei-hsin Yu explains how work institutions and care responsibilities compound gender inequality across women’s lives in Japan and Taiwan.
- Workplace Equality
- Economic Empowerment
- East Asian Feminism
Feminism and War
Feminism and War: Confronting US ImperialismThis collection examines how the United States legitimates war through “women’s liberation” and connects antiracist feminism to anti-imperialist organizing.
- Imperialism Critique
- Transnational Feminism
- Militarism
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Patricia Hill Collins links Black women’s knowledge and self-definition to resistance and social justice, examining work, family, motherhood, and controlling images.
- Black Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
- Feminist Epistemology
Sangati: Events
Bama replaces the solitary heroine with a collective life of Dalit women, making labor, violence, laughter, language, and intergenerational memory the substance of grassroots feminism.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Women's Literature