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The Transgender Issue

Shon Faye places trans politics in Britain within healthcare, housing, labor, class, and punitive systems, making material life central to trans justice.

  • Trans Feminism
  • Social Justice
  • Trans Health
50

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

Louise Perry challenges a sexual liberalism that treats consent and choice as a complete ethic, foregrounding gendered risk while inviting scrutiny of her biological essentialism, marital prescription, and limited engagement with queer and sex-worker perspectives.

  • Feminist Theory
  • Sexual Politics
  • Cultural Critique
51

Year of the Tiger

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

A mixed-media memoir of Asian American family, disability, pandemic politics, access, humor, and collective care - asking whose knowledge and futures matter.

  • Disability Justice
  • Asian American Feminism
  • Race and Gender
52

No More Police: A Case for Abolition

No More Police reframes safety by taking it out of punishment infrastructure and into care, survivor support, and social redesign, advancing abolitionist feminist and transformative justice frameworks.

  • Prison Abolition
  • Carceral Feminism
  • Race and Gender
53

Atlas of AI

Kate Crawford maps AI through minerals, energy, hidden labor, training data, classification, and state surveillance, revealing the extraction and concentrated power beneath machine intelligence.

  • Data Feminism
  • AI Ethics
  • Data Justice
54

Padmarag (The Ruby)

পদ্মরাগ (Padmarag or The Ruby)

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's 1924 Bengali novella centers a women-run school and welfare institution, asking how education, work, and mutual aid can build public life without pretending that reform is a frictionless utopia.

  • Women's Literature
  • Feminist Fiction
  • Feminist Education
55

Flights

Bieguni

Olga Tokarczuk’s nonlinear novel interweaves travel fragments, essays, and histories of the body to explore movement, memory, dissection, and preservation.

  • Mobility
  • Body Politics
  • Philosophy
56

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

First-generation Filipino American author Angela Garbes combines memoir with cultural analysis to critically examine mothering expectations and assumptions, revealing how American society depends on yet often overlooks the essential contributions of mothers and family caregivers.

  • Emotional Labor
  • Ethics of Care
  • Intersectional Feminism
57

Reclaiming Two-Spirits

Gregory D. Smithers traces Indigenous gender traditions through colonial suppression, survival, and renewal, locating the modern reclamation of Two-Spirit identity within language, spirituality, and sovereignty.

  • Two-Spirit
  • Indigenous Feminism
  • Decolonial Feminism
58

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves

Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth, this community resource brings trans-authored knowledge across health, law, family, and everyday life while naming its North American limits.

  • Trans Health
  • Bodily Autonomy
  • Trans Feminism
59

The Cyberfeminism Index

A pioneering work exploring feminism in the digital age, analyzing how the internet, artificial intelligence, and digital technologies are reshaping gender relations and feminist practice.

  • Digital Feminism
  • Technology Critique
  • AI Ethics
60

Burnt Sugar

Avni Doshi’s Booker-shortlisted novel turns a mother - daughter care conflict into a study of memory, maternal ambivalence, and the limits of reconciliation.

  • Mother-Daughter Relationships
  • Contemporary Fiction
  • Memory
61

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

Katherine Angel examines consent, desire, arousal and vulnerability, asking why women must perform perfect self-knowledge to be considered capable of safety and pleasure.

  • Bodily Autonomy
  • Sexual Liberation
  • MeToo Movement
62

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

This collaborative work traces abolition feminism through women-of-color, queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist movement histories.

  • Prison Abolition
  • Carceral Feminism
  • Transformative Justice
63

Fresh Banana Leaves

Drawing on Maya Ch’orti’ and Binnizá family memory, environmental science, and community cases, Jessica Hernandez critiques ecocolonialism and reimagines stewardship through Indigenous science.

  • Indigenous Feminism
  • Environmental Justice
  • Indigenous Sovereignty
64

A Decolonial Black Feminist Theory of Reading and Shade

Andrea N. Baldwin reads the US university through Black feminism, affect, and decolonial theory, showing how inclusion coexists with institutional indifference and developing shade as a critical method.

  • Black Feminism
  • Decolonial Feminism
  • Knowledge Production
65

My Body

A profound self-reflection from supermodel turned writer, analyzing the complex mechanisms of female body commodification through personal experience, exploring modern women's survival predicament between desire and contempt.

  • Bodily Autonomy
  • Fourth Wave Feminism
  • Cultural Critique
66

Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media

Through transnational interviews, Sarah T. Roberts reveals commercial content moderation: the automation and safety visible on platforms rely on secret, quantified, and outsourced human judgment.

  • Digital Labor
  • Technology Critique
  • Internet Culture
67

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

Six interlocking essays move from rape allegations, pornography, desire, and teacher - student relations to the carceral state and capitalism, refusing to reduce sexual politics to the claim that consent alone settles every question.

  • Feminist Theory
  • Sexual Politics
  • Philosophy
68

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Angela Chen uses asexual people’s accounts to question sexual attraction as a measure of adulthood, love and normality, reframing freedom through refusal and relationship differences.

  • Sexuality
  • Queer Theory
  • Bodily Autonomy
69

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

A record of liberation and transformation by Tarana Burke, the founder of the 'Me Too' movement. With overwhelming honesty, it depicts the deep wounds as a survivor of sexual violence, the reality of silenced Black women, and how the hope of 'empowerment through empathy' was born.

  • Anti-Sexual Violence
  • Social Movements
  • Black Feminism
70

The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot

Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy trace how voice assistants, domestic robots, and intimate technologies encode wifework into the future home, then propose a feminist reboot.

  • Digital Feminism
  • Domestic Labor
  • AI Ethics
71

Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism

A theoretical cornerstone for the ‘Wages for Housework’ movement, Silvia Federici explores how capitalism has systematically invisibilized and exploited women's reproductive labor. This collection of essays points out the limitations of traditional Marxism and revolutionizes contemporary feminist economics.

  • Women's Rights
  • Poverty and Justice
  • Global Feminism
72

Starting from the Limit

限界から始まる

Starting from the Limit is a correspondence dialogue between Japanese feminist scholar Chizuko Ueno and former AV actress and writer Suzumi Suzuki. Two generations of women engage in candid dialogue on topics including body, sexuality, work, love, and mother-daughter relationships, presenting the collision and conversation between feminist thought and the lived reality of young women.

  • Feminist Theory
  • Body Politics
  • Gender Norms