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Data Feminism
It proposes seven practical principles that bring power analysis, intersectionality, situated knowledge, and co-design into data work itself.
- Data Feminism
- Data Justice
- AI Ethics
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
Sorcières : La puissance invaincue des femmesA powerful feminist analysis connecting historical witch hunts to contemporary attacks on women's autonomy. Chollet examines how the persecution of 'witches' - independent women, childless women, and aging women - established patterns of misogyny that continue to shape how society treats women who defy traditional roles.
- Historical Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Bodily Autonomy
Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom
Culture writer Marcie Bianco boldly argues that 'equality' is a racist, patriarchal ideal that perpetuates women's systemic oppression and limits the possibilities of feminism - with a plan to transform the movement.
- Feminist Theory
- Radical Feminism
- Legal Equality
Twelve Feminist Lessons of War
Cynthia Enloe develops twelve connected principles for tracing the gender politics of recruitment, care, wounds, wartime rape, women soldiers, feminist organizing, and the long aftermath misleadingly called “postwar.”
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
- Militarism
So Long a Letter
Une si longue lettreA widow's letter contests the public story of her marriage, while friendship reveals unequal possibilities for staying, leaving and speaking.
- African Feminism
- Women's Literature
- Marriage Critique
Carceral Liberalism: Feminist Voices Against State Violence
One of Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of 2023. Continuing the trajectory of the Combahee River Collective, this collection brings together scholars, activists, and writers to examine how carceral liberalism masquerades as freedom while perpetuating oppression, critiquing the confluence of neoliberalism, incarceration, and patriarchy.
- Black Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
- Capitalism Critique
Loving in the War Years
Cherríe Moraga's landmark Chicana lesbian feminist essays and poems examine family, racialized labor, desire, language, and coalition. This reading centers the 1983 original, not every piece in the expanded 2023 edition.
- Chicana Feminism
- Queer Theory
- Latina Feminism
Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
An extraordinary work of memoir and investigative journalism by award-winning Gitxsan journalist Angela Sterritt who survived life on the streets. Combining personal narrative with in-depth investigation into Canada's missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG), this book reveals how colonialism and racism created a society where Indigenous women's lives are ignored and devalued, while proving that Indigenous women's strength and brilliance is unbroken.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Decolonial Feminism
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
Anna Bogutskaya’s cultural criticism opens a feminist inquiry into likability, female antiheroes, audience judgment, and the unequal right to be complicated.
- Media Representation Critique
- Cultural Critique
- Patriarchy Critique
Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty
A radical work by Cambridge economist Victoria Bateman, who has appeared naked on TV, stage, art and protests, using body and brain to deliver her message. Questions: Despite feminism's promises, why do women's bodies remain at mercy of state, society and religion? Are sexy and smart mutually exclusive? Traces bodily modesty pendulum from ancient Egypt to present, calling feminists to unite against female body repression.
- Body Politics
- Bodily Autonomy
- Feminist Theory
Feminism Against Progress
UnHerd columnist Mary Harrington introduces 'reactionary feminism,' critiquing modern feminism as serving only elite professional women. She argues technological progress commodifies women's bodies and reproductive abilities, calling for a fundamental reassessment of what 'progress' means for most women.
- Feminist Theory
- Technology Critique
- Body Politics
The Force of Witness: Contra Feminicide
Rosa-Linda Fregoso reframes feminist witnessing through Mexico’s contra-feminicide movement, connecting memory, art, legal testimony, migration, and collective responsibility.
- Latin American Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Human Rights
The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom
A groundbreaking work from strength coach and social justice educator Chrissy King that blends memoir, inspiration, and practical exercises. The book reveals how diet culture and the fitness industry are rooted in white supremacy and Eurocentric beauty standards, moving beyond body positivity to something more revolutionary: body liberation, recognizing that none of us are free until all of us are.
- Body Politics
- Intersectional Feminism
- Antiracist Politics
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide
Former AFP Seoul correspondent Hawon Jung provides a firsthand account from the frontlines of South Korea's feminist movement, documenting how tens of thousands of Korean women sparked a MeToo wave, ended abortion bans, fought spycam crimes, and shattered Western stereotypes of 'docile' Asian women. Named one of The Economist's Best Books of 2023.
- MeToo Movement
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Reproductive Autonomy
More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
A powerful work by NYU professor, data scientist, and one of the few Black women AI researchers, Meredith Broussard. Reveals how tech neutrality is a myth and algorithms need accountability. From facial recognition only trained on lighter skin tones, to mortgage algorithms encouraging discriminatory lending, to dangerous feedback loops in medical diagnostic algorithms. Solution isn't making omnipresent tech more inclusive, but rooting out algorithms that target demographics as ‘other.’
- Data Feminism
- Technology Critique
- Algorithmic Bias
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
A sharp work by feminist writer Glosswitch exploring why women in their forties and beyond seem to enrage almost everyone. In an era of identity politics, middle-aged women are portrayed as bigoted, entitled, and morally inferior. Smith traces history to reveal why this specific form of misogyny is so rampant today. Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Awards.
- Ageism and Gender
- Feminist Theory
- Intersectional Feminism
The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
Award-winning science journalist Angela Saini's groundbreaking exploration challenging assumptions that male dominance is natural to the human species. Through archaeology, scientific research, and global cultural histories, this book reveals how patriarchy emerged around 7,000 years ago, spread through colonialism, and why understanding this history is crucial for achieving genuine gender equality.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Historical Context
- Feminist Theory
The Sex Lives of African Women
Through first-person stories, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah explores how desire, religion, queer life, trauma, and community shape sexual freedom across African and diasporic contexts.
- African Feminism
- Sexuality
- Bodily Autonomy
Reckoning
A lifetime's work from the Tony Award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues. Spanning forty years of journals, V's Reckoning is a powerful collage of poetry, prose, dreams, and letters that chronicles her journey from childhood trauma to global activism, showing how to transform personal pain into collective power and write oneself into freedom.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Feminist Art
- Feminist Theory
A Woman's Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice
Kornbluh links abortion rights and resistance to sterilization abuse, showing why reproductive autonomy includes the right to bear children.
- Reproductive Justice
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Abortion Rights
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
Thenmozhi Soundararajan combines memoir, Dalit feminism, engaged Buddhism, and embodied practice to examine how caste injury enters bodies, communities, and transnational institutions.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Prison Abolition
The Future Is Disabled
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning SongsLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha connects disability justice to mutual aid, grief, climate survival, accessible art, and disabled joy - without romanticizing care work.
- Disability Justice
- Ethics of Care
- Queer Theory
Before We Were Trans
Kit Heyam challenges modern, white, medicalized origin stories of gender variance while demonstrating how to write trans history without imposing definitive identities on people in the past.
- Trans Studies
- Historical Context
- Decolonial Feminism
Hysterical: A Memoir
Acclaimed humor writer Elissa Bassist's memoir about reclaiming her authentic voice in a culture that doesn't listen to women. Between 2016-2018 she saw 20+ medical professionals for mysterious ailments, until an acupuncturist suggested her physical pain could be caged fury. This is medical mystery, cultural criticism, and rallying cry. Semi-finalist for 2023 Thurber Prize for American Humor.
- Medical Patriarchy Critique
- Women's Health
- Feminist Psychology