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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
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
Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
A feminist reading of Latin American case law on reproductive autonomy, property, violence and queer family recognition - and the limits of judicial equality.
- Latin American Feminism
- Legal Equality
- Queer Theory
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter retells tales such as Bluebeard and Little Red Riding Hood in Gothic forms that keep female desire, danger, and unequal power in tension.
- Women's Literature
- Postmodern Feminism
- Cultural Critique
The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty
Moreton-Robinson connects property, racial knowledge and patriarchal sovereignty to ask how settler institutions reproduce possession of Indigenous lands.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Indigenous Sovereignty
- Settler Colonialism
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 of Zapatista women’s cooperatives, the Women’s Revolutionary Law, and the unfinished struggle over land, care, and community autonomy.
- Latin American Feminism
- Indigenous Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
This Bridge Called My Back
A groundbreaking collection of writings by radical women of color that brought together diverse racial voices, critiqued the limitations of white feminism, and advanced intersectional feminist development.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Race and Gender
- Decolonial Feminism
Women's Poverty
女性たちの貧困 : “新たな連鎖”の衝撃A source-informed reading of NHK's reporting on poverty in Japan: how education debt, insecure work and childcare constraints can compound, without treating selected interviews as population statistics.
- Women's Work
- Economic Empowerment
- Class Analysis
Man Alive
Thomas Page McBee links childhood abuse, a near-fatal mugging and transition to ask how masculinity inherits violence - and how care, accountability and forgiveness might change it.
- Trans Masculinity
- Trauma and Healing
- Patriarchy Critique
Little Women
A classic coming-of-age novel that, through the growth journey of the four March sisters, showcases diverse life choices for 19th-century women, influencing generations of female readers' values and life pursuits.
- First Wave Feminism
- Women's Literature
- Women's Writing
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
Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic
Stevenson examines care in the Canadian Arctic through the gap between managing a population’s survival and attending to particular lives and relationships.
- Ethics of Care
- Indigenous Sovereignty
- Settler Colonialism
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
Bananas, Beaches and Bases
Cynthia Enloe makes international politics visible through women working in tourism, domestic labor, diplomacy, military bases, and export economies.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Militarism
- Globalization
Karukku
Bama’s Tamil life narrative Karukku examines caste inside Catholic institutions, the politics of literary language, and the tension between selfhood and community.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Religious Patriarchy Critique
Men Explain Things to Me
A modern feminist classic that deeply explores the phenomenon of 'mansplaining' and its impact on women. Solnit's sharp writing reveals gender power relations in everyday life, providing important perspectives for understanding contemporary women's circumstances.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Cultural Critique
- Feminist Literary Criticism
A Feminist Voyage through International Relations
J. Ann Tickner reflects on twenty-five years of feminist IR, from reformulating realism and security to methodology, 9/11, religious violence, race, and empire.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Feminist Theory
- International Context
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
A transgender rights activist's autobiographical work that explores the multiple meanings of feminine identity through personal growth experiences, challenging mainstream society's rigid perceptions of authenticity and femininity.
- Trans Feminism
- Race and Gender
- Women's Writing
Citizen: An American Lyric
A hybrid of prose and poetry, Claudia Rankine's memoir-like art book provides uncompromising insights into the living conditions of 21st-century Black Americans - particularly Black women. From microaggressions to intentional acts of bias, Rankine creates a taxonomy of daily offenses against Black Americans, challenging all of us to consider our own complicity.
- Black Feminism
- Race and Gender
- Cultural Critique
Ecofeminism
Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva link patriarchal capitalism, colonial development, unpaid labor, and ecological harm, proposing subsistence beyond endless growth.
- Ecofeminism
- Capitalism Critique
- Decolonial Feminism
Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Lila Abu-Lughod asks how rescue narratives justify intervention, and how women's own priorities change the meaning of rights and freedom.
- Arab Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Religion and Gender
Precarious Japan
Anne Allison’s ethnography follows post-bubble stagnation, irregular work, lonely death, and post-Fukushima life to examine what happens when stable family and male-breadwinner institutions unravel.
- Capitalism Critique
- Economic Empowerment
- Ageism and Gender