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The Sexual Politics of the New Abolitionism
A key article on how anti-trafficking politics links sexuality, markets, morality, and punitive state power.
- Carceral Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Sex Worker Rights
The Vegetarian
채식주의자The Vegetarian is a Man Booker International Prize-winning novel by Korean author Han Kang. It tells the story of Yeong-hye, an ordinary housewife who, in order to reject human violence, decides to stop eating meat and eventually wants to transform herself into a tree. It is a fable about female bodily autonomy, refusal of social norms, and the quest for a purely 'harmless' existence in a violent world.
- Body Politics
- Violence Against Women
- Mental Health
Mothers, Monsters, Whores
Laura Sjoberg and Caron E. Gentry analyze how violent women in global politics are explained away through gendered stories of motherhood, monstrosity, or sexuality.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Political Violence
- Gender Politics
Flights
BieguniFlights is a masterpiece by Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, deeply imbued with feminist meaning. Through a constellation of stories about travel, anatomy, and preservation, Tokarczuk challenges traditional patriarchal concepts binding women to 'home' and 'settlement,' proposing a new female subjectivity based on mobility and the radical autonomy of the body.
- Mobility
- Body Politics
- Philosophy
Persepolis
Based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel, this black-and-white animated film tells the story of an Iranian girl's coming-of-age before and after the Islamic Revolution, profoundly exploring women's survival and resistance under religious totalitarianism.
- Decolonial Feminism
- Religious Patriarchy Critique
- Bodily Autonomy
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zileIn 1987 Romania under Ceaușescu's dictatorship, college roommate Otilia helps pregnant Găbița seek an illegal abortion. This harsh and brutal realist masterpiece reveals the state's control over women's bodies and women's brave resistance for reproductive autonomy within the span of one night.
- Abortion Rights
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Historical Context
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
A groundbreaking manifesto of transgender feminism. From the unique perspective of a transgender woman, Serano deeply analyzes the intrinsic connection between transphobia and sexism, revealing society's systematic devaluation and violence against femininity.
- Trans Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Bodily Autonomy
From Where We Stand
Cynthia Cockburn follows women’s antiwar networks across several conflicts, tracing how nationalism, masculinity, racism, and empire make war while examining peace activism’s own contradictions.
- War and Peace
- Social Movements
- Feminist Security Studies
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Prison Abolition
- Race and Gender
- Capitalism Critique
Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers
Nicole Constable centers Filipina migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, showing how recruitment, employment, live-in rules, resistance, and negotiation shape care labor in an Asian global city.
- Migration
- Domestic Labor
- Care Economy
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
Turning the Pot, Tilling the Land: Dignity of Labour in Our Times
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd and Durgabai Vyam reclaim labor, technique, and knowledge devalued by caste in a form accessible to younger readers.
- Caste and Gender
- Economic Empowerment
- Decolonial Feminism
Eroticism, Sensuality and ‘Women’s Secrets’ Among the Baganda
Sylvia Tamale examines Baganda women’s erotic knowledge as a contested archive shaped by female instruction, colonial morality, religion, commodification, and feminist struggles over pleasure.
- African Feminism
- Sexuality
- Bodily Autonomy
The Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists
Adopted in Accra in 2006, the Charter defines African feminism as a political commitment to dismantling patriarchy while demanding accountability inside feminist organizations themselves.
- African Feminism
- Social Movements
- Political Participation
King Kong Theory
King Kong ThéorieVirginie Despentes' 'King Kong Theory' is a punk-rock manifesto of modern feminism. Part memoir, part critical theory, it is a raw, angry, and undeniably powerful examination of gender, sexuality, and violence. Despentes writes from the margins - as a former sex worker, a rape survivor, and a punk artist - challenging the sanitized, respectable versions of feminism to embrace the 'ugly', the 'unfuckable', and the dangerous.
- Radical Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Sex Worker Rights
Globalization and the Increase in Transnational Care Work: The Flip Side
Pyle analyzes the growth of transnational care work through globalization and social reproduction, showing how nursing, domestic work, intimate labor, and migration regimes form part of the global economy rather than private arrangements outside it.
- Migration
- Care Economy
- Globalization
Transgender Rights
This anthology maps transgender civil rights through law, history, public policy, employment, family, healthcare, and movement strategy.
- Trans Feminism
- Legal Equality
- Bodily Autonomy
The Transgender Studies Reader
This reader gathers foundational texts that helped consolidate transgender studies as a field across feminism, queer theory, medicine, law, and history.
- Trans Studies
- Queer Theory
- Feminist Theory
The Nature of Gender: Work, Gender, and Environment
Drawing on community forestry in Nepal, Nightingale shows gender not as a fixed identity but as a process produced through labor, embodiment, affect, ecological practice, and power.
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Environmental Justice
- Ecofeminism
Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women's Testimonios
Sharmila Rege reads Dalit women’s testimonios to reopen the boundaries between literature, oral history, and social science through caste/gender experience.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Feminist Epistemology
Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change
Andrea Smith connects Native feminism with sovereignty, anti-violence organizing, anti-colonial struggle, and social transformation, challenging separations between feminism and Indigenous nationhood.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Indigenous Sovereignty
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Gender and Caste
Anupama Rao’s anthology brings history, political argument, and Dalit women’s testimony together to show how caste and gender jointly organize bodies, labor, law, and intellectual authority.
- Caste and Gender
- Dalit Feminism
- Feminist Theory
Feminist Disability Studies
Garland-Thomson maps feminist disability studies as a field, showing how disability reshapes feminist questions about bodies, staring, normalcy, dependency, and public life.
- Feminist Disability Studies
- Disability Justice
- Ableism
The Curious Feminist
Cynthia Enloe turns ‘Where are the women, and who benefits when they are ignored?’ into a method for tracing global power through sneaker factories, militaries, nationalist war, and postwar institutions.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Imperialism Critique
- Militarism