Women's WorkBooks

Starting from the Limit is a correspondence dialogue between Japanese feminist scholar Chizuko Ueno and former AV actress and writer Suzumi Suzuki. Two generations of women engage in candid dialogue on topics including body, sexuality, work, love, and mother-daughter relationships, presenting the collision and conversation between feminist thought and the lived reality of young women.

Cho Nam-joo traces Kim Jiyoung’s life from childhood to motherhood, showing how gender bias accumulates across family, education, work, and care while testing the limits of a case-file narrative.

A source-informed reading of NHK's reporting on poverty in Japan: how education debt, insecure work and childcare constraints can compound, without treating selected interviews as population statistics.

Patriarchy and Capitalism is a representative theoretical work by Japanese feminist scholar Chizuko Ueno, systematically analyzing how patriarchy and capitalism operate together as two exploitation systems, causing double oppression of women. This book is a classic text of Marxist feminism, invaluable for understanding the economic significance of women's unpaid domestic labor.

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's 1924 Bengali novella centers a women-run school and welfare institution, asking how education, work, and mutual aid can build public life without pretending that reform is a frictionless utopia.

Writing as Linda Brent, Harriet Jacobs shows how slavery governed Black women's bodies, motherhood, and family - and how concealment, labor, and authorship became means of survival and testimony.

Mary Prince’s 1831 narrative links enslavement to bodily labor, family separation, marriage, and constrained freedom, while its editorial framing raises questions about testimony and authority.