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The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom
A groundbreaking work from strength coach and social justice educator Chrissy King that blends memoir, inspiration, and practical exercises. The book reveals how diet culture and the fitness industry are rooted in white supremacy and Eurocentric beauty standards, moving beyond body positivity to something more revolutionary: body liberation, recognizing that none of us are free until all of us are.
- Body Politics
- Intersectional Feminism
- Antiracist Politics
Collective care is the work
Drawing on Black feminist and disability-justice traditions, two Level Up organizers define collective care as movement infrastructure rather than a benefit added after political work.
- Care Economy
- Black Feminism
- Disability Justice
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide
Former AFP Seoul correspondent Hawon Jung provides a firsthand account from the frontlines of South Korea's feminist movement, documenting how tens of thousands of Korean women sparked a MeToo wave, ended abortion bans, fought spycam crimes, and shattered Western stereotypes of 'docile' Asian women. Named one of The Economist's Best Books of 2023.
- MeToo Movement
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Reproductive Autonomy
More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
A powerful work by NYU professor, data scientist, and one of the few Black women AI researchers, Meredith Broussard. Reveals how tech neutrality is a myth and algorithms need accountability. From facial recognition only trained on lighter skin tones, to mortgage algorithms encouraging discriminatory lending, to dangerous feedback loops in medical diagnostic algorithms. Solution isn't making omnipresent tech more inclusive, but rooting out algorithms that target demographics as 'other.'
- Technology Critique
- Algorithmic Bias
- Intersectional Feminism
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
A sharp work by feminist writer Glosswitch exploring why women in their forties and beyond seem to enrage almost everyone. In an era of identity politics, middle-aged women are portrayed as bigoted, entitled, and morally inferior. Smith traces history to reveal why this specific form of misogyny is so rampant today. Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Awards.
- Ageism and Gender
- Feminist Theory
- Intersectional Feminism
The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
Award-winning science journalist Angela Saini's groundbreaking exploration challenging assumptions that male dominance is natural to the human species. Through archaeology, scientific research, and global cultural histories, this book reveals how patriarchy emerged around 7,000 years ago, spread through colonialism, and why understanding this history is crucial for achieving genuine gender equality.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Historical Context
- Feminist Theory
The Sex Lives of African Women
Through intimate testimony from African and diasporic women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah replaces narratives of sexual danger and victimhood with a plural archive of desire, pleasure, freedom, and healing.
- African Feminism
- Sexuality
- Bodily Autonomy
Reckoning
A lifetime's work from the Tony Award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues. Spanning forty years of journals, V's Reckoning is a powerful collage of poetry, prose, dreams, and letters that chronicles her journey from childhood trauma to global activism, showing how to transform personal pain into collective power and write oneself into freedom.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Feminist Art
- Feminist Theory
A Woman's Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice
Through the personal experiences of historian Felicia Kornbluh's mother and neighbor, this book reveals the untold story of two grassroots movements in New York that transformed American reproductive rights politics - the fight to decriminalize abortion and the struggle against sterilization abuse.
- Reproductive Justice
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Abortion Rights
Women Talking
A drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley, adapted from Miriam Toews' novel of the same name. Set in a Bolivian Mennonite community, following a group of women who gather to discuss their future after discovering systematic sexual assault by men in their community. The film deeply explores important issues including religious patriarchy critique, collective trauma and healing, women's political awakening, and the power of silence versus voice.
- Religious Patriarchy Critique
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Political Consciousness
Women’s Work: The Care Burden
Tashny Sukumaran asks why women’s educational achievement does not translate automatically into equal employment, tracing attrition to care infrastructure, workplace culture, and family expectations.
- Care Economy
- Domestic Labor
- Workplace Equality
South Korea's Gender Gap: The Paradox of Inequality and Backlash
An analysis of South Korea's complex gender landscape, where deep-seated structural inequality coexists with a powerful anti-feminist movement and political shifts that threaten existing protections for women.
- Anti-Feminism Studies
- Patriarchy Critique
- Political Participation
She Said
A journalism drama directed by Maria Schrader, starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan. Adapted from the non-fiction book by New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, following their investigation that exposed Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault scandal. The film deeply explores important issues including the #MeToo movement, gender politics in journalism, the power of women's testimony, and the courage needed to break silence.
- MeToo Movement
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Media Representation Critique
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
Thenmozhi Soundararajan combines memoir, Dalit feminism, engaged Buddhism, and embodied practice to examine how caste injury enters bodies, communities, and transnational institutions.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Prison Abolition
BBC: MeToo's Global Impact: What Has Really Changed?
An in-depth analysis of the global impact of the #MeToo movement, exploring how it has empowered women to speak out, revealed deep-rooted social issues, and driven ongoing structural change.
- MeToo Movement
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Fourth Wave Feminism
The Future Is Disabled
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning SongsPiepzna-Samarasinha turns disabled survival, grief, mutual aid, and imagination in the COVID era into a political account of disabled futures.
- Disability Justice
- Care Ethics
- Queer Theory
The Woman King
A historical action epic directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, starring Viola Davis. Set against the backdrop of the 19th-century West African Kingdom of Dahomey's all-female warrior regiment, the Agojie, following General Nanisca as she trains a new generation of female warriors to defend the kingdom. The film explores important themes of Black female power, African historical narrative, decolonialism, and women's military leadership.
- Black Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Female Friendship
Before We Were Trans
Kit Heyam challenges modern, white, medicalized origin stories of gender variance while demonstrating how to write trans history without imposing definitive identities on people in the past.
- Trans Studies
- Historical Context
- Decolonial Feminism
Hysterical: A Memoir
Acclaimed humor writer Elissa Bassist's memoir about reclaiming her authentic voice in a culture that doesn't listen to women. Between 2016-2018 she saw 20+ medical professionals for mysterious ailments, until an acupuncturist suggested her physical pain could be caged fury. This is medical mystery, cultural criticism, and rallying cry. Semi-finalist for 2023 Thurber Prize for American Humor.
- Medical Patriarchy Critique
- Women's Health
- Feminist Psychology
The Transgender Issue
Shon Faye argues that trans justice is inseparable from healthcare, housing, work, sex work, prison, migration, class, and social justice.
- Trans Feminism
- Social Justice
- Trans Health
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
Year of the Tiger
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's LifeAlice Wong's memoir braids Asian American identity, disability activism, family, humor, media work, and community building into a personal archive of disability justice.
- Disability Justice
- Asian American Feminism
- Race and Gender
Climate action's hidden opportunities for women
In this TED@BCG talk, gender and climate researcher Zineb Sqalli critiques the gender-neutral framing of climate policy and reveals how it often perpetuates inequality. She highlights Vienna’s gender-equal urban planning as a model and calls for climate strategies that intentionally integrate gender equity at every stage.
- Climate Justice
- Gender Equality
- Patriarchy Critique
An Overview on the Feminism and Its Categories
This paper offers a comprehensive overview of feminism’s historical development, ideological foundations, and categorical variants. Mohajan traces the evolution of feminist thought from early movements to contemporary debates, highlighting key challenges and future directions for global gender justice.
- Feminism
- Liberal Feminism
- Radical Feminism