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A powerful critique of mainstream feminism's failure to address the basic needs of marginalized women, advocating for housing, food, education, and other survival issues to be at the core of feminist agenda.

Women's Poverty is a documentary collection by NHK's 'Women's Poverty' reporting team, revealing the structural causes of women's poverty in Japanese society through in-depth interviews with impoverished Japanese women. This work breaks the myth that 'women's poverty is a personal problem,' showing how gender discrimination, non-regular employment, and gaps in social security together create women's economic hardship.

My 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.

A collective autobiography capturing the passage of time in French society from the post-war period to the present. A masterpiece by the Nobel Prize winner, inventing a new form of impersonally intimate narrative.