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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
A profound and philosophical guide to reclaiming our attention in an era where our focus is commodified and efficiency is seen as the ultimate value. Odell explores how ‘doing nothing’ can be a radical act of resistance, leading to deeper connections with our local environments, communities, and ourselves.
- Cultural Critique
- Social Movements
- Digital Feminism
As Long as Grass Grows
Through treaties, dispossession, food and water, sacred sites, and Standing Rock, Dina Gilio-Whitaker rebuilds environmental justice around Indigenous sovereignty.
- Indigenous Sovereignty
- Environmental Justice
- Climate Justice
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
A shocking exposé into how the world is designed for men as the 'default,' systematically ignoring women's data. Spanning healthcare, technology, urban planning, and economics, Caroline Criado Perez reveals how invisible data bias seriously impacts women's health, safety, and lives.
- Data Feminism
- Women's Rights
- Cultural Critique
The Island of Sea Women
A sweeping historical novel set on the Korean island of Jeju, following the intersecting fates of two female divers over several decades. From the Japanese colonial era through the Korean War and into the present, the story depicts the resilient lives, solidarity, and ultimate forgiveness of women caught in the tides of history.
- Women's History
- Women's Literature
- Intersectional Feminism
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
Danielle Sered explores responses to serious violence that center survivors’ needs, require accountability, and pursue repair beyond prison.
- Transformative Justice
- Prison Abolition
- Anti-Sexual Violence
All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
Emily L. Thuma reconstructs the anticarceral politics developed from the 1970s into the early 1980s by criminalized women and Black, queer, prisoner, and psychiatric-survivor organizers.
- Carceral Feminism
- Prison Abolition
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
Critiques elite feminism and proposes an anti-capitalist feminist vision, linking women's liberation to economic justice, racial equality, and environmental sustainability.
- Marxist Feminism
- Capitalism Critique
- Economic Empowerment
Pleasure Activism
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Goodbrown gathers essays and conversations linking pleasure, consent and collective practice, while asking when enjoyment supports freedom and when it remains consumption or privilege.
- Bodily Autonomy
- Black Feminism
- Queer Theory
Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
Yashica Dutt extends the language of “coming out” to caste, tracing concealment, shame, mobility, and the politics of public identity.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Queer Theory
Artificial Unintelligence
Drawing on experience as both programmer and journalist, Meredith Broussard dismantles the belief that technology is always the best answer and maps the limits between computation, judgment, and public responsibility.
- AI Ethics
- Technology Critique
- Data Justice
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights
A groundbreaking work written by sex workers themselves, directly challenging mainstream feminist narratives about sex work while providing theoretical foundations and political strategies for the sex workers' rights movement.
- Radical Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Kathryn Yusoff critiques Anthropocene narratives that erase slavery, extraction, and racialized geologic violence behind an abstract “humanity.”
- Environmental Justice
- Race and Gender
- Decolonial Feminism
Histories of the Transgender Child
Jules Gill-Peterson uncovers twentieth-century histories of transgender children and the medical, racial, and political systems around them.
- Trans Feminism
- Trans Health
- Youth Rights
Technically Wrong
Sara Wachter-Boettcher analyzes how forms, product copy, defaults, and tech workplace cultures exclude gendered, racialized, and embodied difference from the “normal user.”
- Technology Critique
- Design Justice
- Gender Discrimination
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha frames disability justice as practical knowledge from sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown communities, centering collective access, care webs, and liberation where no one is left behind.
- Disability Justice
- Care Economy
- Queer Theory
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
A critical examination of how neoliberalism has co-opted feminist discourse, transforming it from a collective movement for social justice into an individualized pursuit of personal empowerment that serves corporate interests while abandoning the vast majority of women.
- Liberal Feminism
- Capitalism Critique
- Cultural Critique
Trans Kids
Tey Meadow’s ethnography follows how trans children, families, clinics, and schools negotiate identity, care, and institutional recognition.
- Trans Feminism
- Youth Rights
- Family Liberation
To the Lighthouse
A masterpiece of modern literature that captures the passage of time, lost years, and the completion of art through the innovative technique of 'stream of consciousness.' Deep insights into motherhood, marriage, and female creativity are poetically rendered alongside beautiful Scottish seaside landscapes.
- Women's Literature
- Cultural Critique
- Historical Context
The Sexual Contract
Pateman asks how agreements between formally free people can establish authority over bodies, work and marriage, rather than guarantee equality.
- Feminist Political Theory
- Patriarchy Critique
- Labor Rights
The Prisons We Broke
Baby Kamble’s memoir treats “prison” as a structure built by caste, poverty, religious discipline, and household patriarchy together.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Women's Literature
Lullaby
Chanson douceInspired by a true story, this Goncourt Prize-winning novel tells a chilling tale about the relationship between a 'perfect nanny' and her employer family. Slimani explores boundaries of class, race, and motherhood with sharp, cold prose, revealing deep societal rifts hidden beneath urban life's calm surface.
- Class Politics
- Motherhood
- Care Economy
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Through her mother and uncles, Sujatha Gidla shows how caste, class, and patriarchy shaped the meaning of freedom across colonial rule, independence, and revolutionary politics.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Historical Context
Feminist in a Software Lab
Through the making of Vectors and Scalar, Tara McPherson asks whether feminism can inhabit databases, interfaces, collaborative labor, and software architecture - not only content.
- Digital Feminism
- Feminist Theory
- Media Literacy
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the StoryA ground-breaking investigation into how deep-seated gender bias has permeated the scientific community, leading to long-standing 'scientific' misconceptions about women's capabilities. Spanning biology, psychology, and anthropology, Angela Saini reveals the true nature of women supported by the latest research.
- Women's Rights
- Cultural Critique
- Legal Equality