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How Sex Changed
A social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States, tracing how trans people and institutions reshaped ideas of sex, gender, and care.
- 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
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
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.
- Black Feminism
- Feminist Literary Criticism
- Race and Gender
TechnoFeminism
Judy Wajcman connects factories, homes, cyberspace and design to ask who defines technological problems, holds expertise and carries the labor.
- 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
The Treasure of the City of Ladies
Le trésor de la cité des dames de degré en degré et de tous estatzChristine de Pizan’s 1405 French work addresses women across social ranks, linking learning and counsel to household and political power while preserving medieval hierarchies.
- Women's History
- Women's Literature
- Women's Writing
The Memoirs of Louise Michel
Mémoires de Louise Michel, écrits par elle-mêmeThe Memoirs of Louise Michel is the autobiography of the famous 19th-century anarchist, feminist, and Paris Commune fighter Louise Michel. It chronicles her combat experiences during the Paris Commune, her subsequent exile, and her unwavering belief in social justice, women's liberation, and anarchist ideals.
- Anarchist Feminism
- Political Participation
- Social Justice
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
This interdisciplinary reader pairs bilingual essays, art, testimony, and responses to explore Chicana feminist debates on history, borders, sexuality, class, and representation.
- Chicana Feminism
- Latina Feminism
- Race and Gender
Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes
María Lugones develops coalition as a situated practice: remembering plural selves, reading resistance across social worlds, and changing the relations that make oppression seem inescapable.
- Decolonial Feminism
- Latina Feminism
- Women of Color Feminism
The Dialectic of Sex
A radical feminist masterwork proposing that technological revolution in reproductive control is key to women's liberation, offering a feminist transformation of Marxism.
- Radical Feminism
- Marxist Feminism
- Reproductive Autonomy
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
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
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
The Beauty Myth
Exposes how beauty standards have become a new tool for controlling women, analyzing the impact of consumer culture on women's bodies and psyche.
- Third Wave Feminism
- Media Representation Critique
- Bodily Autonomy
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 Latina feminist collective uses testimonios to connect life stories, academic institutions and collaborative knowledge without erasing differences.
- Latina Feminism
- Feminist Education
- Knowledge Production
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave: Related by Herself
Mary Prince’s 1831 narrative links enslavement to bodily labor, family separation, marriage, and constrained freedom, while its editorial framing raises questions about testimony and authority.
- Women's History
- Colonial History
- Race and Gender
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
The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan's 1963 book describes the discontent of postwar U.S. housewives and helped draw readers into the second-wave movement. This guide examines its influence alongside the limits of a framework centered on white, middle-class experience.
- Second Wave Feminism
- Family Liberation
- Liberal Feminism
Happening
L'ÉvénementAnnie Ernaux revisits her 1963 illegal abortion through memory and writing, examining the body, law, class, and the silence surrounding the experience.
- Body Politics
- Women's Health
- Reproductive Rights
Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right
Nicaraguan guerrillas, a Salvadoran child-support bill and Chilean coalitions show how women entered politics and wrested control over what counted as a public issue.
- Latin American Feminism
- Radical Feminism
- Social Movements