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Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
A memoir from bestselling 'House of Glass' author Hadley Freeman, recounting her battle with anorexia from ages 14-17 in psychiatric hospitals, tracking the recovery journeys of women she was hospitalized with 20 years later, and revealing the deep connection between eating disorders and the difficulties girls face coming of age. Called 'riveting' by The New York Times.
- Body Politics
- Mental Health
- Feminist Psychology
Feminisms in Movement
A contemporary collection placing street movements, Black and decolonial theory, Indigenous ecological knowledge, queer practice, and art across the Americas on one political map.
- Latin American Feminism
- Transnational Feminism
- Social Movements
The US War on Reproductive Rights Should Concern Women Everywhere
In the United States, women's reproductive rights are rapidly being eroded. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, nearly 30 states have restricted abortion access. This war on bodily autonomy threatens not just America, but women's rights globally.
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Bodily Autonomy
- Anti-Sexual Violence
WHO report reveals gender inequalities at the root of global crisis in health and care work
WHO connects the concentration of women in paid and unpaid care with low wages and underinvestment, showing that the care crisis is a structural result of devaluing women’s work.
- Care Economy
- Domestic Labor
- Workplace Equality
Equal Pay Day 2024: Gender Pay Gap Hits Historic Low - But Remains Too Large
In 2024, women in the US earn an average of only 85% of what men earn, with the gender pay gap reaching a historic low of 18% but progress remains painfully slow. Women with advanced degrees face an even larger pay gap, losing over $32,500 annually. This economic inequality is not just a personal loss but a manifestation of systemic discrimination.
- Equal Pay
- Workplace Equality
- Economic Empowerment
Patriarchy Is Regaining Ground: UN Chief Warns of Unprecedented Threats to Women's Rights
UN Secretary-General António Guterres issues stark warning at the 2024 Commission on the Status of Women: 'Patriarchy is far from vanquished; it is regaining ground.' From Afghanistan to America, from digital spaces to political stages, women's rights are under systematic attack and decades of progress are being reversed.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Political Participation
- Gender Equality
Gender Bias in AI: The 2024 Wake-Up Call
New research reveals 44% of AI systems show gender bias, while women's underrepresentation in tech is making it worse. From ChatGPT to image generators, AI is reinforcing harmful gender stereotypes.
- Digital Feminism
- AI Ethics
- Gender Discrimination
Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality
Veteran financial journalist Josie Cox's groundbreaking work telling the story of how women have fought for financial freedom and the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equality. From WWII 'Rosies' to the investor who broke into the New York Stock Exchange boys' club, this work chronicles centuries of women's relentless struggle for money and power, while revealing challenges women still face today.
- Economic Empowerment
- Women's Economic Rights
- Equal Pay
The Status of the Women’s Movement in Africa
This policy brief examines the strength, fragmentation, financing, and political space of women’s movements across Africa, emphasizing that durable equality depends on autonomous collective power.
- African Feminism
- Social Movements
- Political Participation
Laapataa Ladies
Through the absurd comedy of two brides swapped on a train due to identical veils, this film exposes how rural Indian patriarchy employs the 'erasure of the face' to systematically invisibilize female identity.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Cross-Cultural Feminism
- Everyday Life Practices
From wages for housework to self-care: feminist perspectives on the care economy
Anna Moser places Wages for Housework and the contemporary self-care industry in one political-economic history, showing how capitalism privatizes reproduction and resells individual solutions.
- Care Economy
- Domestic Labor
- Capitalism Critique
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us about Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist and medical historian Dr. Elizabeth Comen unveils the collective medical history of women, exploring how medicine has long misunderstood women's bodies and how these historical oversights continue to affect women's health today.
- Feminist Epistemology
- Historical Context
- Body Politics
How Feminism Ends?
This article starts from bodily experience to critique contemporary feminism's over-abstraction of 'gender,' exploring the inescapability of the female body, the predicament of gender theory, and the tension between women's freedom and self-exhaustion.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Trans Feminism
- Feminist Psychology
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Jules Gill-Peterson locates transmisogyny in colonial statecraft, racial ordering, policing, sex work, and global histories of transfeminized people.
- Trans Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Decolonial Feminism
Mean Girl Feminism: On the Performative Power of Whiteness
Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and GirlbossA sharp deconstruction of contemporary white feminism, revealing how the performance of 'sass' and 'girl squads' serves to consolidate privilege rather than dismantle oppression.
- Liberal Feminism
- Capitalism Critique
- Intersectional Feminism
The 4B Movement: Political Practice as Radical Negativity
The 4B movement (no marriage, no childbirth, no dating, no sex with men) is not merely a defensive retreat from extreme patriarchy, but a courageous 'political strike' aimed at paralyzing the mechanisms of patriarchal reproduction.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Social Movements
- Sexual Liberation
Girls Will Be Girls
At a strict Himalayan boarding school, a teenager’s sexual awakening collides with institutional discipline and her mother’s interrupted youth, making desire an intergenerational feminist question.
- South Asian Feminism
- Girlhood
- Bodily Autonomy
“Like Seeking Out a Lost Friend”: Reconsidering Pioneer Arab Feminists and Their Networks as Part of a/the First Wave
Roxanne Douglas reconstructs journals, salons, correspondence, and organizing across Egypt, Palestine, and Lebanon to place Arab feminist networks inside - not after or outside - the history of feminism’s first wave.
- Arab Feminism
- Women's History
- Transnational Feminism
The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice
Emmy Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Flock's groundbreaking investigative work exploring what few dare to confront: the role and necessity of female-led violence when institutional protections completely fail. Through three immersive narratives of real women who fought back, this book challenges us to rethink what justice, self-defense, and women's safety truly mean.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Legal Equality
- Gender Politics
Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation
From the author of Factory Girls, a two-year investigative report revealing how globalization's promise of liberation paved the way for oppression. Follow three Egyptian women navigating between traditional culture and modernization demands.
- Workplace Equality
- Economic Empowerment
- Global Feminism
Women, Gender, and Constitutionalism in Latin America
A comparative constitutional study of gender equality, women's rights, and LGBTQIA+ subordination across Latin American jurisdictions.
- Latin American Feminism
- Legal Equality
- Queer Theory
Normal Women
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making HistoryNew York Times bestselling historical novelist Philippa Gregory's magnum opus - a groundbreaking feminist nonfiction milestone that radically redefines the extraordinary role ordinary women played in British history. Did you know there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the 1381 Peasants' Revolt was a tax protest started by women? That Darwin believed women would evolve to become inferior? For the first time, placing women - 50% of the population - at center stage of 900 years of English history.
- Historical Context
- Social Movements
- Economic Empowerment
The Marvels
A superhero film directed by Nia DaCosta, the first Black woman to helm a Marvel movie, following three female superheroes Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan who are forced to work together to save the universe when their powers become entangled. The film explores themes of intergenerational female solidarity, multicultural identity, and women's representation in superhero cinema.
- Female Friendship
- Intersectional Feminism
- Cultural Identity
Women in Black
Women in Black: Against Violence, for Peace with JusticeA feminist movement history spanning more than three decades and five continents, documenting how Women in Black used black clothing, silent vigils, and local coalitions against occupation, war, militarism, apartheid, and gendered violence.
- War and Peace
- Social Movements
- Militarism