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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis’s classic short book denaturalizes prisons as historical institutions and asks readers to imagine justice and safety beyond incarceration.
- Prison Abolition
- Carceral Feminism
- Black Feminism
Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader
Through bilingual writing, art, testimony, and paired responses, this interdisciplinary reader stages Chicana feminist debates over history, borders, sexuality, class, and representation.
- Chicana Feminism
- Latina Feminism
- Race and Gender
Feminism without Borders
Chandra Talpade Mohanty moves from a critique of the Western gaze to anticapitalist solidarity, grounding transnational feminism in history, labor relations, and shared struggle.
- Transnational Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Global Feminism
Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens
Uma Chakravarti reads caste not as a simple social hierarchy, but as a historical order sustained through control of women’s sexuality, marriage, and inheritance.
- Brahmanical Patriarchy
- Caste and Gender
- Feminist Theory
Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes
Maria Lugones collects influential essays on plural identities, coalition, travel between worlds, and decolonial feminist resistance.
- Decolonial Feminism
- Latina Feminism
- Women of Color Feminism
Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons
The madness known as the 'ideal womanhood' imposed on American women throughout the 20th century. This sociological entertainment dismantles etiquette education, strange beauty regimens, and patriarchal social expectations through extensive archival research and sharp humor.
- Cultural Critique
- Women's History
- Women's Literature
This Bridge We Call Home
A large anthology of radical visions for transformation that extends bridge-building feminist politics across difference.
- Women of Color Feminism
- Coalition Politics
- Chicana Feminism
Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature
miriam cooke reads Muslim women’s literary and public interventions as the making of Islamic feminism, a contested space in which religious belonging and demands for gender justice are claimed together.
- Arab Feminism
- Religion and Gender
- Women's Literature
Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios
A collective work of Latina feminist testimonios that links life writing, knowledge production, academia, and survival.
- Latina Feminism
- Feminist Education
- Knowledge Production
Nickel and Dimed
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in AmericaJournalist Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States, revealing the brutal reality of low-wage labor and the struggle for survival.
- Labor Rights
- Economic Empowerment
- Capitalism Critique
Radical Women in Latin America
An edited volume on women's participation in revolutionary, leftist, and radical politics across Latin America.
- Latin American Feminism
- Radical Feminism
- Social Movements
Happening
L'ÉvénementHappening is an autobiographical novella by French Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux, documenting her true experience of undergoing an illegal abortion as a university student in 1963. With calm and precise prose, this work transforms a personal bodily experience into a profound reflection on class, gender, and body politics.
- Body Politics
- Women's Health
- Reproductive Rights
Doing the Dirty Work?: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour
Bridget Anderson analyzes how migrant domestic labor is organized by employers, states, and border regimes, exposing the race, class, gender, and citizenship politics behind household work.
- Migration
- Domestic Labor
- Labor Rights
All About Love
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.
- Black Feminism
- Ethics of Care
- Emotional Labor
Feminism is for Everybody
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.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Education Equality
Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America
A historical collection on gender, state formation, citizenship, family, law, and power in Latin America.
- Latin American Feminism
- Gender Politics
- Historical Context
Maneuvers
Cynthia Enloe traces how women's lives are militarized through bases, nationalism, labor, marriage, and peacekeeping.
- Militarism
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
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
Persepolis
An autobiographical graphic novel depicting the tumultuous years of the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War through the eyes of a young girl. It explores a rebellious spirit seeking freedom, identity struggles, and oppression by state power. A deeply human and powerful record of resilience told through stark black-and-white drawings.
- Women's History
- Women's Literature
- International Context
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
A foundational text of the transgender rights movement, exploring the oppressive nature of gender binaries and advocating for the liberation of all gender expressions.
- Trans Feminism
- Queer Theory
- Bodily Autonomy
The Space Between Us
Cynthia Cockburn studies women’s cooperation across Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, and Bosnia-Hercegovina to understand gender, nationalism, and democratic difference.
- Nationalism
- War and Peace
- Transnational Feminism
The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí argues that Western scholarship projected a body-centered gender hierarchy onto Yoruba society, forcing feminist analysis to confront the colonial history of its own categories.
- African Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Gender Politics
African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa
This landmark anthology grounds African feminist politics in struggles over land, work, food, health, citizenship, and state power across ten national contexts.
- African Feminism
- Economic Empowerment
- Political Participation
The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers
Nine labor histories use archives and oral testimony to reconstruct Latin American women workers’ factory lives, household obligations, organizing, and gendered citizenship.
- Latin American Feminism
- Labor Rights
- Economic Justice