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Girls Play Dead: A Murder, a Memoir
A chilling investigation into the 1990 murder of Keri Sullivan, exploring the cultural obsession with violence against women, the failures of the justice system, and the psychological toll on survivors and investigators.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Legal Equality
- Gender Politics
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
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
A contemporary collection placing street movements, Black and decolonial theory, Indigenous ecological knowledge, queer practice, and art across the Americas on one political map.
- Latin American Feminism
- Transnational Feminism
- Social Movements
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
Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist and medical historian Dr. Elizabeth Comen unveils the collective medical history of women, exploring how medicine has long misunderstood women's bodies and how these historical oversights continue to affect women's health today.
- Feminist Epistemology
- Historical Context
- Body Politics
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Jules Gill-Peterson locates transmisogyny in colonial statecraft, racial ordering, policing, sex work, and global histories of transfeminized people.
- Trans Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Decolonial Feminism
Mean Girl Feminism: On the Performative Power of Whiteness
Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and GirlbossA 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 Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice
Emmy Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Flock's groundbreaking investigative work exploring what few dare to confront: the role and necessity of female-led violence when institutional protections completely fail. Through three immersive narratives of real women who fought back, this book challenges us to rethink what justice, self-defense, and women's safety truly mean.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Legal Equality
- Gender Politics
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, Gender, and Constitutionalism in Latin America
A comparative constitutional study of gender equality, women's rights, and LGBTQIA+ subordination across Latin American jurisdictions.
- 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
Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom
Culture writer Marcie Bianco boldly argues that 'equality' is a racist, patriarchal ideal that perpetuates women's systemic oppression and limits the possibilities of feminism - with a plan to transform the movement.
- Feminist Theory
- Radical Feminism
- Legal Equality
Twelve Feminist Lessons of War
Cynthia Enloe develops twelve connected principles for tracing the gender politics of recruitment, care, wounds, wartime rape, women soldiers, feminist organizing, and the long aftermath misleadingly called “postwar.”
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
- Militarism
Carceral Liberalism: Feminist Voices Against State Violence
One of Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of 2023. Continuing the trajectory of the Combahee River Collective, this collection brings together scholars, activists, and writers to examine how carceral liberalism masquerades as freedom while perpetuating oppression, critiquing the confluence of neoliberalism, incarceration, and patriarchy.
- Black Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
- Capitalism Critique
Loving in the War Years
Cherríe Moraga's influential essays and poems connect Chicana lesbian feminism, family, nationalism, sexuality, and political memory.
- Chicana Feminism
- Queer Theory
- Latina Feminism
Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty
A radical work by Cambridge economist Victoria Bateman, who has appeared naked on TV, stage, art and protests, using body and brain to deliver her message. Questions: Despite feminism's promises, why do women's bodies remain at mercy of state, society and religion? Are sexy and smart mutually exclusive? Traces bodily modesty pendulum from ancient Egypt to present, calling feminists to unite against female body repression.
- Body Politics
- Bodily Autonomy
- Feminist Theory
Feminism Against Progress
UnHerd columnist Mary Harrington introduces 'reactionary feminism,' critiquing modern feminism as serving only elite professional women. She argues technological progress commodifies women's bodies and reproductive abilities, calling for a fundamental reassessment of what 'progress' means for most women.
- Feminist Theory
- Technology Critique
- Body Politics
The Force of Witness: Contra Feminicide
A decolonial feminist theory of witnessing that follows activist mothers, artists, filmmakers, courts, and communities resisting feminicidal violence in Mexico.
- Latin American Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Human Rights
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
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