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It Ends with Us
A brave and heartbreaking contemporary novel exploring the thin line between love and violence, and the courage required to break the cycle of domestic abuse spanning generations. Based on a true story, it is a tale of difficult choices, resilience, and the power of self-love.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Women's Literature
- Women's Rights
Convenience Store Woman
コンビニ人間Convenience Store Woman is an Akutagawa Prize-winning novel by Japanese author Sayaka Murata. The protagonist, Keiko Furukura, is a 36-year-old woman who has worked at the same convenience store for 18 years and has no interest in society's expectations for women - marriage, children, a 'real' career. With dark humor, the novel sharply questions society's definition of 'normal' and its oppression of women who don't conform.
- Gender Norms
- Body Politics
- Cultural Critique
Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy
Grace Chang traces how immigration policy, welfare reform, and global capital create a low-paid, stigmatized, yet socially essential workforce of immigrant women.
- Migration
- Domestic Labor
- Labor Rights
Rape During Civil War
Dara Kay Cohen uses comparative data to explain why some armed groups perpetrate wartime rape at massive scale while others do not.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- War and Peace
- Feminist Security Studies
Sex Object: A Memoir
A raw and unflinching memoir detailing how women are treated as 'sex objects' from a young age and the deep scars this leaves on their self-perception, relationships, and mental health. A leading voice in contemporary feminism, Valenti indicts the essence of misogyny in modern society through her own experiences.
- Bodily Autonomy
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Cultural Critique
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Mona Eltahawy’s polemic links state, family, and religious control over women’s bodies across the Middle East and North Africa while forcing debate about anger, generalization, and the politics of speaking for a region.
- Arab Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy
- Sexual Politics
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
Liberating 'motherhood' from middle-class privilege to reconstruct it as the most radical practice of social transformation. A groundbreaking anthology on love, survival, and collective liberation by women of color, queer people, the poor, and low-wage caregivers.
- Black Feminism
- Women's Rights
- Social Movements
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Black Feminism
- Education Equality
- Race and Gender
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Connecting liberation movements across different eras and regions, from abolitionism to Palestine, demonstrating the importance of intersectional analysis in contemporary social movements.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Anti-Feminism Studies
Globalization and Militarism
Cynthia Enloe links militarism to corporate supply chains, national security rhetoric, consumer culture, prisons, and global labor.
- Militarism
- Globalization
- Labor Rights
Earth Democracy
Vandana Shiva extends democracy to land, seeds, water, and community, showing how corporate globalization turns the commons of life into property.
- Climate Justice
- Ecofeminism
- Political Participation
My Life on the Road
A memoir by legendary feminist activist Gloria Steinem, chronicling her decades of travel and the conversations she held with the people she met along the way. It beautifully illustrates how moving, listening, and organizing can transform the world and shape the self.
- Women's History
- Social Movements
- Women's Rights
Soil Not Oil
Vandana Shiva connects industrial agriculture, fossil fuel dependence, and climate crisis, centering small farms, seed diversity, and food sovereignty.
- Climate Justice
- Food Sovereignty
- Ecofeminism
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Anna Tsing follows matsutake supply chains to study survival, cooperation, and non-linear ecological relations in capitalist ruins.
- Capitalism Critique
- Environmental Justice
- Labor Rights
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Trans Feminism
- Prison Abolition
- Queer Theory
Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work
Centered on migrant Filipino domestic workers, Parreñas develops the international division of reproductive labor and offers a foundational account of global care chains, transnational families, and migrant women's labor.
- Migration
- Care Economy
- Domestic Labor
Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society
Ifi Amadiume’s study of Nnobi society separates social roles such as daughter and husband from anatomical sex, while tracing how colonial rule narrowed women’s political and economic authority.
- African Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Gender Politics
Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories
An oral-history account of Indigenous women’s participation in the Zapatista movement and their unfinished struggle to transform political leadership, domestic life, land, health, and education.
- Latin American Feminism
- Indigenous Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
The Argonauts
Contemporary queen of memoir-theory fusion Maggie Nelson turns her lens on identity, desire, and family. This instant classic recounts Nelson's relationship with her partner, artist Harry Dodge. Through intimate documentation of family life and pregnancy, Nelson presents a complex portrait of modern queer motherhood with blurred boundaries.
- Queer Theory
- Trans Feminism
- Emotional Labor
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Naomi Klein argues that climate crisis is not a single environmental issue but a challenge to market ideology, fossil capital, and extractivism.
- Climate Justice
- Capitalism Critique
- Social Movements
Man Alive
Thomas Page McBee’s memoir examines violence, trauma, forgiveness, and becoming a man from a trans masculine perspective.
- Trans Masculinity
- Trauma and Healing
- Patriarchy Critique
Bad Feminist
A collection of essays that explores the complexities of contemporary feminism with humor and honesty, acknowledging that feminists can be contradictory and imperfect.
- Fourth Wave Feminism
- Pop Culture Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
We Should All Be Feminists
Nigerian writer Adichie's pamphlet expanded from her TED talk redefines 21st-century feminism through personal experiences and sharp observations, making this concept more accessible and relatable.
- Fourth Wave Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Women's Literature
Gender, War, and Conflict
Laura Sjoberg offers an accessible but rigorous account of how gender orders shape the causes, conduct, narration, and aftermath of war.
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
- Gender Politics