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Feminism for the Americas
A revisionist history showing how Latin American and Caribbean feminists helped build international women’s rights and human-rights institutions while contesting US dominance inside Pan-American organizing.
- Latin American Feminism
- Transnational Feminism
- Historical Context
Burnt Sugar
A sharp and unsettling novel about a shifting power dynamic between a mother and daughter. As the mother's memory fades, the daughter must care for the woman who never truly cared for her, unveiling deep resentment and complex love.
- Mother-Daughter Relationships
- Contemporary Fiction
- Memory
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Prison Abolition
- Carceral Feminism
- Social Justice
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Alice Wong, Disability Visibility gathers first-person writing by contemporary disabled people, bringing disability culture, media representation, embodiment, law, art, and everyday life into public view.
- Disability Justice
- Media Representation Critique
- Body Politics
Women Don't Owe You Pretty
A vibrant manifesto for intersectional feminism that challenges beauty standards, toxic relationships, and societal expectations. Given combines personal insight with political analysis to encourage women to reject the pressure to be 'pretty' for others and embrace their authentic selves.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Body Positivity
- Third Wave Feminism
Qiuyuan
秋园Qiuyuan is the debut work of Chinese amateur author Yang Benfen, written at the age of 80. Centered on the life of the author's mother Liang Qiufang (nicknamed Qiuyuan), it tells the story of an ordinary Chinese woman who lived through war, famine, and political upheaval throughout the 20th century. This is a moving work about women, memory, and history, as well as a heartfelt retrieval of the countless Chinese women lost to history.
- Women's Literature
- Family Liberation
- Cultural Critique
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Disability Justice
- Prison Abolition
- Carceral Feminism
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety
Sarah Jaquette Ray writes for the climate generation about anxiety, burnout, action, and resilience, bringing emotional labor into climate education.
- Climate Justice
- Mental Health
- Feminist Education
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
Female Husbands
Jen Manion reconstructs the lives called “female husbands” in Britain and the United States, asking how marriage, labor, class, and the press produced gender.
- Trans Studies
- Queer Theory
- Historical Context
Untamed
The courage to escape the cage of 'good woman' and 'good mother' and live according to one's own truth. A soulful memoir by an author who overcame years of addiction and a painful marriage to find true love and freedom, empowering women worldwide.
- Women's Literature
- Bodily Autonomy
- Mental Health
Design Justice
Starting from trans airport screening and disability justice, Sasha Costanza-Chock argues for design led by affected communities, placing benefit, ownership, and accountability above expert good intentions.
- Design Justice
- Data Justice
- Trans Feminism
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
A poetically written and sharply critical exploration of the unspoken pain, anger, and alienation hidden behind the myth of the 'model minority.' Cathy Park Hong dismantles the racial and social hierarchies of American society through the lens of her own experiences as an Asian American woman.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Race and Gender
- Cultural Critique
Hood Feminism
A powerful critique of mainstream feminism's failure to address the basic needs of marginalized women, advocating for housing, food, education, and other survival issues to be at the core of feminist agenda.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Economic Empowerment
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Transformative Justice
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Queer Theory
The Charisma Machine
Drawing on fieldwork in Paraguay, Morgan G. Ames follows One Laptop per Child to show how technological salvation projects universalize privileged childhoods and erase teachers, care, and infrastructure.
- Technology Critique
- Feminist Education
- Development Studies
Short Anti-racist Guide
Pequeno manual antirracistaShort Anti-racist Guide is a bestselling book by Brazilian Black feminist philosopher Djamila Ribeiro. This concise yet powerful book not only explains the structural origins of racism but, more importantly, provides 11 concrete practical guidelines, teaching readers how to actively practice anti-racism in their daily lives.
- Anti-Racist Politics
- Black Feminism
- Intersectionality
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin retells technological origins through the container rather than the weapon and imagines fiction as a bag holding people, relations, and ordinary continuance against linear progress and heroic conquest.
- Ecofeminism
- Feminist Literary Criticism
- Technology Critique
Know My Name
In 2015, when Stanford University student Brock Turner sexually assaulted a woman known as 'Emily Doe,' this case became a symbol of unity for women across America. Because of the worst thing that happened to her, Emily Doe became one of the most famous women in the world - yet no one knew her real name. This all changed in 2019 when Chanel Miller revealed herself as 'Emily Doe' and published this memoir, telling her story as an act of reclaiming narrative identity.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Bodily Autonomy
- Media Representation Critique
Sorted
Jackson Bird’s memoir follows growing up, coming out, public education, online community, and finding language for trans identity.
- Trans Masculinity
- Youth Rights
- Memoir
The Testaments
Thirty-four years after 'The Handmaid's Tale,' Margaret Atwood delivers a stunning sequel following the collapse of the Republic of Gilead through the perspectives of three different women. It depicts how the fires of resistance are lit from within an oppressed regime and how absolute power eventually crumbles.
- Women's Literature
- Political Participation
- Women's Rights
A Terrible Thing to Waste
Harriet A. Washington studies how environmental racism harms Black, Latinx, and Native communities through lead, pollution, toxic exposure, and policy neglect.
- Environmental Justice
- Race and Gender
- Black Feminism
Caste Matters
Suraj Yengde combines personal narrative and social analysis to show caste not as India’s past, but as power still operating in education, love, labor, and diaspora.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Race and Gender
Breasts and Eggs
夏物語Mieko Kawakami's 'Breasts and Eggs' is a monumental work of contemporary Japanese literature that challenges traditional feminine norms. The novel follows three women: Natsu, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's daughter Midoriko. Through their intersecting lives, Kawakami explores questions of female agency, bodily autonomy, reproductive ethics, and the societal pressures placed on women's bodies in modern Japan.
- Body Politics
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Family Liberation