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Night of a Thousand Hells
Malam Seribu JahanamIntan Paramaditha’s Indonesian gothic novel connects sisterhood, care and migration, asking whose labor makes another woman’s freedom and family storytelling possible.
- Feminist Art
- Domestic Labor
- Migration
Revelator
Ellie Black's debut poems connect online femininity, religious confession and bodily desire, asking who controls a woman's voice when self-expression becomes spectacle.
- Feminist Art
- Sexuality
- Digital Feminism
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
Jen Percy investigates freezing, passivity and self-preservation through personal history and survivor testimony, questioning the demand that trauma must become a coherent, credible story.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Mental Health
- Gender Politics
The Feminist Art of Walking
Morag Rose turns communal wandering into a feminist practice: access, disability, shared leadership and resistance to the commercial capture of public space.
- Feminist Art
- Disability Justice
- Social Movements
The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia
Shadrina examines how older Russian women negotiate care, class and social age, finding meaning in relationships that can also restrict autonomy.
- Ageism and Gender
- Care Economy
- Family
Precarious Motherhood: Navigating Relationships and Support Post-Migration in the UK
Benchekroun traces migrant mothers’ work, housing and support in London, showing how relationships enable belonging while creating new dependencies.
- Migration
- Motherhood
- Care Economy
Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation
A provocative and unflinching examination of reactionary strands within feminism that work against liberation. Lewis traces two centuries of 'enemy feminisms' from imperial feminists to contemporary TERFs, revealing how feminist rhetoric can be weaponized to reinforce rather than dismantle systems of oppression.
- Radical Feminism
- Trans Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online
A comprehensive analysis of the online manosphere and its relationship to contemporary misogyny. Copland examines how digital platforms have enabled the formation of misogynistic communities that blend historical male grievances with modern technological capabilities to create new forms of anti-feminist resistance.
- Digital Feminism
- Men's Rights Movement Critique
- Cultural Critique
A Room of One's Own
Woolf links income, institutional access and literary value to women’s writing, leaving tensions around anger and creative independence open.
- Women's Literature
- Feminist Literary Criticism
- Women's Writing
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
An electric memoir by the legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Kathleen Hanna chronicles her journey from a tumultuous childhood through the birth of the Riot Grrrl movement, revealing the raw truths about surviving as a feminist voice in a hostile punk scene while building revolutionary music and community.
- Third Wave Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Cultural Critique
Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
A memoir from bestselling 'House of Glass' author Hadley Freeman, recounting her battle with anorexia from ages 14-17 in psychiatric hospitals, tracking the recovery journeys of women she was hospitalized with 20 years later, and revealing the deep connection between eating disorders and the difficulties girls face coming of age. Called 'riveting' by The New York Times.
- Body Politics
- Mental Health
- Feminist Psychology
Feminisms in Movement
Edited by Lívia De Souza Lima, Edith Otero Quezada, and Julia Roth, this open-access collection connects feminist theory, embodied histories, and activist forms without treating the Americas as one tradition.
- Latin American Feminism
- Transnational Feminism
- Social Movements
Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation
From the author of Factory Girls, a two-year investigative report revealing how globalization's promise of liberation paved the way for oppression. Follow three Egyptian women navigating between traditional culture and modernization demands.
- Workplace Equality
- Economic Empowerment
- Global Feminism
Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality
Veteran financial journalist Josie Cox's groundbreaking work telling the story of how women have fought for financial freedom and the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equality. From WWII 'Rosies' to the investor who broke into the New York Stock Exchange boys' club, this work chronicles centuries of women's relentless struggle for money and power, while revealing challenges women still face today.
- Economic Empowerment
- Women's Economic Rights
- Equal Pay
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us about Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
Comen connects medical history with clinical experience to examine how inherited ideas about women’s bodies still shape diagnosis and care.
- Feminist Epistemology
- Historical Context
- Body Politics
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
Julia Kristeva's 1980 important theoretical work deeply explores the core concept of 'abjection,' analyzing how humans construct subjectivity through the expulsion of the 'other,' profoundly influencing feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies.
- Feminist Theory
- Psychoanalysis
- Cultural Critique
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Jules Gill-Peterson traces how colonial rule, racialized policing, labor, and public space shaped modern trans misogyny - and how trans-feminized people resisted it.
- Trans Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Decolonial Feminism
The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice
Elizabeth Flock connects a US self-defense case, India’s Green Gang and women’s armed struggle in Syria, asking how protection, force and accountability can come into conflict.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Legal Equality
- Gender Politics
Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss
A sharp deconstruction of contemporary white feminism, revealing how the performance of 'sass' and 'girl squads' serves to consolidate privilege rather than dismantle oppression.
- Liberal Feminism
- Capitalism Critique
- Intersectional Feminism
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Le Guin recasts technology and fiction through the carrier bag, challenging hero-centered stories of progress and making care, relations, and collective survival narratively visible.
- Ecofeminism
- Feminist Literary Criticism
- Technology Critique
Seeking Begumpura: The Social Vision of Anticaste Intellectuals
Gail Omvedt reads Begumpura as an anti-caste social horizon, asking how equality becomes material freedom from hierarchy, exploitation, and restricted public space.
- Caste and Gender
- Decolonial Feminism
- Historical Context
Women, Gender, and Constitutionalism in Latin America
A comparative study of constitutional law in eleven Latin American jurisdictions, tracing gender-rights innovation alongside gaps in reasoning and implementation.
- Latin American Feminism
- Legal Equality
- Queer Theory
Normal Women
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making HistoryNew York Times bestselling historical novelist Philippa Gregory's magnum opus - a groundbreaking feminist nonfiction milestone that radically redefines the extraordinary role ordinary women played in British history. Did you know there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the 1381 Peasants' Revolt was a tax protest started by women? That Darwin believed women would evolve to become inferior? For the first time, placing women - 50% of the population - at center stage of 900 years of English history.
- Historical Context
- Social Movements
- Economic Empowerment
Women in Black
Women in Black: Against Violence, for Peace with JusticeA feminist movement history spanning more than three decades and five continents, documenting how Women in Black used black clothing, silent vigils, and local coalitions against occupation, war, militarism, apartheid, and gendered violence.
- War and Peace
- Social Movements
- Militarism