Violence Against Women

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.

The Vegetarian is a Man Booker International Prize-winning novel by Korean author Han Kang. It tells the story of Yeong-hye, an ordinary housewife who, in order to reject human violence, decides to stop eating meat and eventually wants to transform herself into a tree. It is a fable about female bodily autonomy, refusal of social norms, and the quest for a purely 'harmless' existence in a violent world.

Thus She Is (Ainsi soit-elle) is a foundational text of modern French feminism, selling over a million copies and defining a generation. With passionate prose, Benoîte Groult indicts misogyny in all its forms, from linguistic sexism and the erasure of women's history to the physical brutality of female genital mutilation, calling on women to reclaim the definition of their own existence.