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.

Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 is a novel by Korean author Cho Nam-joo, telling the life story of an ordinary Korean woman Kim Ji-young from birth to motherhood. This work reveals deep-rooted gender discrimination in Korean society through understated narrative, sparking widespread discussion about women's situations in Korea and throughout East Asia.

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.

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.