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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
A graphic memoir that delves into the author's relationship with her mother through the lens of psychoanalysis, exploring themes of artistic struggle, queer identity, and the elusive nature of maternal connection.
- Mother-Daughter Relationships
- Graphic Memoir
- Queer Theory
Feminism and Migration
A feminist collection spanning Western and non-Western settings that asks when migration enables agency and when it reorganizes labor, identity, and control.
- Migration
- Transnational Feminism
- Labor Rights
My Brilliant Friend
L'amica genialeMy Brilliant Friend is the first book in Italian author Elena Ferrante's 'Neapolitan Novels'. Set in a poor neighborhood in post-WWII Naples, the novel follows two girls - Elena and Lila - depicting their complex friendship spanning half a century. It is a story about how women depend on, compete with, and try to master their own destinies in a violent male world.
- Female Friendship
- Class Analysis
- Education
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
Saba Mahmood’s ethnography of Cairo’s women’s mosque movement challenges feminist theories that recognize agency only as resistance to norms and asks how ethical subjects are formed through embodied religious practice.
- Arab Feminism
- Religion and Gender
- Feminist Theory
Feminist Disability Studies
Edited by Kim Q. Hall, Feminist Disability Studies systematically links feminist theory and disability studies, examining embodiment, ability norms, public policy, representation, sexuality, and public life as co-producers of gendered and disabled inequality.
- Disability Justice
- Feminist Theory
- Feminist Philosophy
How to Be a Woman
A hilarious and heartfelt memoir-manifesto that blends personal experience with feminist theory, exploring what it means to be a modern woman with unapologetic humor.
- Radical Humor
- Feminism
- Memoir
Feminist Security Studies
Annick T. R. Wibben reconstructs security through narrative theory, asking who may tell threat stories and whose experience state-centered accounts exclude.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Feminist Epistemology
- War and Peace
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Queer Theory
- Prison Abolition
- Carceral Feminism
Dalit Women Speak Out: Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India
Based on 500 Dalit women’s narratives across four Indian states, this study shows how gendered violence enforces caste, class, land, and political power - and follows survivors into exclusionary justice institutions.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Anti-Sexual Violence
A Gardener in the Wasteland: Jotiba Phule's Fight for Liberty
Srividya Natarajan and Aparajita Ninan use stark images, satire, and historical narration to remake Jotiba Phule’s Slavery while weaving Savitribai’s struggle back into anti-caste thought.
- Caste and Gender
- Feminist Art
- Historical Context
The Queer Art of Failure
Halberstam challenges success standards in heteronormative capitalist society, exploring the productive potential of failure as a form of resistance. Through analysis of popular culture and queer theory, the author proposes 'low theory' as a mode of thinking and writing, redefining failure not as deficiency but as a strategy for subverting mainstream values.
- Trans Feminism
- Queer Theory
- Capitalism Critique
Misogyny
女ぎらい：ニッポンのミソジニーMisogyny is a major work by Japanese sociologist and feminist scholar Chizuko Ueno. The book deeply analyzes the pervasive phenomenon of misogyny in Japanese society, revealing how it exists in various hidden forms within families, workplaces, romantic relationships, and even within women's own consciousness. It is essential reading for understanding the mechanisms of misogyny in East Asian patriarchal societies.
- Feminist Theory
- Patriarchy Critique
- Gender Norms
Gender, War, and Militarism
Laura Sjoberg and Sandra Via assemble seventeen interdisciplinary feminist essays on how gender organizes military institutions, wartime violence, peacebuilding, and public memory.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Militarism
- War and Peace
Nimo's War, Emma's War
Cynthia Enloe reads the Iraq War through the lives of four Iraqi women and four American women rather than through official military strategy.
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
- Imperialism Critique
Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas
A foundational interdisciplinary collection defining feminicide as structural gendered violence sustained not only by perpetrators but by state impunity, racial capitalism, and transnational economies.
- Latin American Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Human Rights
Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean
An edited collection on social justice, citizenship, and democratizing struggles led by women in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Latin American Feminism
- Political Participation
- Social Justice
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Prison Abolition
- Race and Gender
- Black Feminism
The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story
A. Revathi’s autobiography records gender, family expulsion, labor, survival, and dignity in hijra communities, bringing South Asian trans experience into feminist mapping.
- Queer Theory
- Caste and Gender
- Trans Feminism
The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs
Urmila Pawar weaves family, education, marriage, and movement work into a life history that shows how caste enters the body and intimate life.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Women's Literature
The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir
A raw and powerful record of a girl growing up amidst poverty, violence, and rigid social expectations in Jamaica, winning her freedom through poetry and her own voice. It reveals the truth behind the illusion of 'paradise' while exploring biracial identity, sexuality, and the reclamation of self.
- Women's Literature
- Race and Gender
- Intersectional Feminism
Gendered Trajectories: Women, Work, and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan
Wei-hsin Yu compares half a century of women’s employment in Japan and Taiwan, showing why organizational arrangements, industrial policy, and life-course institutions matter beyond shared patriarchal culture.
- Workplace Equality
- Economic Empowerment
- East Asian Feminism
Feminism and War
This collection shows how the United States legitimates war through “women's liberation,” joining antiracist and anticapitalist feminism to occupation, torture, economic warfare, and transnational resistance.
- Imperialism Critique
- Transnational Feminism
- Militarism
Sangati: Events
Bama replaces the solitary heroine with a collective life of Dalit women, making labor, violence, laughter, language, and intergenerational memory the substance of grassroots feminism.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Women's Literature
Seeking Begumpura: The Social Vision of Anticaste Intellectuals
Gail Omvedt traces five centuries of anti-caste social visions, from Bhakti traditions to Phule, Periyar, and Ambedkar.
- Caste and Gender
- Decolonial Feminism
- Historical Context