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The Yogyakarta Principles (2007)
The principles apply existing human rights law to sexual orientation and gender identity, connecting recognition, bodily autonomy and family protection.
- LGBTQ+
- Bodily Autonomy
- Human Rights
Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty?
Correll, Benard and Paik combine an experiment with an employer audit to distinguish judgments of competence, recommended pay and callback opportunities for mothers.
- Workplace Equality
- Motherhood Critique
- Gender Pay Gap
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
Ruth Wilson Gilmore traces California’s prison expansion through the political economy of surplus land, labor, capital, and state capacity.
- 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
Turning the Pot, Tilling the Land: Dignity of Labour in Our Times
Kancha Ilaiah’s illustrated book for young readers revalues knowledge devalued by caste; Durgabai Vyam’s art is integral to its argument.
- Caste and Gender
- Economic Empowerment
- Decolonial Feminism
Uruguay’s Domestic Work Law No. 18.065
The law brings paid domestic work into working-time limits, rest, social protection and wage bargaining, exposing tensions between household privacy and labor rights.
- Labor Rights
- Domestic Labor
- Human Rights
Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
Veena Das follows violence into everyday relations, asking how voice, acknowledgment and the work of inhabiting a damaged world reshape accounts of agency.
- Political Violence
- Violence Against Women
- Memory
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
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 Fountain of Age
Thirty years after 'The Feminine Mystique,' Betty Friedan challenges another powerful societal myth: the 'mystique of age.' She attacks the 'medical model of decline' and argues that old age is not a pathology or loss, but a unique life stage full of vitality, growth, and self-realization.
- Elderly Women's Rights
- Ageism and Gender
- Gender Socialization
The Transgender Studies Reader
Fifty texts map transgender studies as a struggle over who can produce knowledge about gender, bodies, institutions, and the limits of English-language scholarship.
- Trans Studies
- Queer Theory
- Feminist Theory
The Nature of Gender: Work, Gender, and Environment
Andrea J. Nightingale examines how gender is made through forestry labor, ecological rules, and unequal authority in a community-forestry case from western Nepal.
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Environmental Justice
- Ecofeminism
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Judith Butler questions sex, gender, and the category “women,” tracing how repeated norms make gender appear stable and unsettle fixed identities and universal feminist subjects.
- Postmodern Feminism
- Queer Theory
- Feminist Philosophy
The Female Eunuch
A groundbreaking work of second-wave feminism, Greer analyzes women's castrated state in patriarchal society with radical and incisive prose, challenging traditional female roles and gender norms to become an important theoretical foundation for the women's liberation movement.
- Radical Feminism
- Second Wave Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy
Their Eyes Were Watching God
A feminist reading of Hurston’s 1937 novel through Janie’s narration to Pheoby, her changing relationships, Black Southern idiom, and the limits of treating one fictional life as universal.
- Black Feminism
- Race and Gender
- Women's Literature
Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
A groundbreaking 1898 feminist economics work that systematically analyzes the social roots of women's economic dependency and proposes theoretical foundations for women's economic independence. Praised as an important document comparable to Mill's 'The Subjection of Women'.
- First Wave Feminism
- Economic Empowerment
- Marxist Feminism
Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women's Testimonios
Sharmila Rege reads Dalit women's life narratives as historical and theoretical knowledge, asking who gets to write caste and gender into India's feminist history.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Feminist Epistemology
Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept
Connell and Messerschmidt revisit the concept through power relations, scales, embodiment and women’s agency, resisting its reduction to a fixed personality type.
- Gender Roles
- Power Dynamics
- Political Consciousness
Bloodchild and Other Stories
A classic collection by the master of science fiction feminist literature Butler, featuring the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning titular novella that explores gender roles, power relationships, and identity through interspecies dynamics.
- Black Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy
- Race and Gender
Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change
Andrea Smith’s 2005 essay challenges the feminist/nonfeminist binary and asks how Native women’s diverse political frameworks make sovereignty central to debates about gender justice.
- 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