Women's Rights Poverty and Justice Global Feminism +2 Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Capitalism, and Feminism Silvia Federici (2021) A theoretical cornerstone for the 'Wages for Housework' movement, Silvia Federici explores how capitalism has systematically invisibilized and exploited women's reproductive labor. This collection of essays points out the limitations of traditional Marxism and revolutionizes contemporary feminist economics. Read More →
Black Feminism Women's Rights Social Movements +3 Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, Mai'a Williams (Eds.) (2016) Liberating 'motherhood' from middle-class privilege to reconstruct it as the most radical practice of social transformation. A groundbreaking anthology on love, survival, and collective liberation by women of color, queer people, the poor, and low-wage caregivers. Read More →
Women's Literature Race and Gender Poverty and Justice +3 On Black Sisters' Street Chika Unigwe (2007) A powerful novel by the Nigerian-born author following the lives of four African women working in Antwerp's red-light district. Driven to Europe by poverty, betrayal, and a longing for a better life, they seek to reclaim their identities and find new solidarity amidst cold realities. Read More →
Arab Feminism Decolonial Feminism Anti-Sexual Violence +3 Woman at Point Zero Nawal El Saadawi (1975) A groundbreaking novel by Egyptian feminist pioneer Saadawi that exposes the violence and oppression faced by women in Arab society through the story of a woman sentenced to death. Read More →