Feminist

Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019Teeming with life and crackling with energy ? a love song to modern Britain and black womanhoodGirl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through t...

The riveting, powerful memoir of the woman whose statement to Brock Turner gave voice to millions of survivors. She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statemen...

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, selfimage, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.?I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to eras...

Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pinkall shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and Im not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once livetweeted the September issue.In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the jou...

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentiethcentury literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and...

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family.Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genrebending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the a...

Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly Who deserves to be called a misogynist How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist or increase even when sexist gender roles are waning This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics by the moral philosopher and wr...

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explo...

In her comic, scathing essay ?Men Explain Things to Me,? Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don?t, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters...

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You hear that selling sex is degrading; you hear that no one would ever choose to do it; you hear that it's dangerous; that women get abused and killed. You often hear, "There should be a law against it!" Or, perhaps just against the buyers. What do sex workers want That's not something you hear asked very often. In this accessible manifesto, the ...

Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls being 100% themselves.Real beauty isn?t about being a certain s...

From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies whom Anne Lamott called "the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country" comes a vital, incisive exploration into the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement. In the year 2018, it seems as if women's an...

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the focus is ...

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Emma Watson Our Shared Shelf Selection for November/December 2018 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018/ MENTIONED BY: The New York Public Library Mashable The Atlantic Bustle The Root Politico Magazine (What the 2020 Candidates Are Reading This Summer) NPR Fast Company (10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexis...

In a captivating memoir, an Egyptian American visionary and scientist provides an intimate view of her personal transformation as she follows her calling?to humanize our Technology, and how we connect with one another.Rana el Kaliouby is a rarity in both the tech world and her native Middle East: a Muslim woman in charge in a field that is still ove...

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You can't spell truth without Ruth.Only Ruth Bader Ginsburg can judge me.The Ruth will set you free.Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg never asked for fame?she was just trying to make the world a little better and a little freer. But along the way, the feminist pioneer's searing dissents and steely strength have inspired millions. Notorious ...

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of ema...

From the critically acclaimed author of Before I Die comes a remarkably affecting story of a girl who burns with anger for reasons she can't understand, and the power and risk that comes with making noise. Fans of E. Lockhart, Jennifer Niven, and Gayle Foreman will find their own fury in this exceptional novel for our times.Lexi's angry. And it's g...

THE ORIGINAL ANTIDIET BOOK IS BACK in one volume together with its bestselling sequel.When it was first published, Fat Is A Feminist Issue became an instant classic and it is as relevant today as it was then.Updated throughout, it includes a frank new introduction by Susie Orbach that brings this book to a new generation of readers whilst offer...

This is a slightly expanded version of a letter written by the author as a Facebook poston 12 October 2016. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response.Here are fifteen invaluable suggestionscompelling, direct, wryl...

The instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History comes the highly anticipated followup, a beautifully illustrated collectible detailing the lives of women creators around the world.Featuring the true stories of 35 women creators, ranging from writers to inventors, artists to scientists, Little D...

The inspiring true story of mathematician Katherine Johnsonmade famous by the awardwinning film Hidden Figureswho counted and computed her way to NASA and helped put a man on the moon! Katherine knew it was wrong that African Americans didn't have the same rights as othersas wrong as 5=12. She knew it was wrong that people thought women co...

This is the book we all know and love by Marlo Thomas and her friendsbrought to new life with brand new illustrations to captivate and inspire a new generation of readers on a journey of the heart. Whether you are opening Free to Be . . . You and Me for the first time or the one hundredth time you will be engaged and transformed by this newly beau...

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 is a children's book packed with 100 bedtime stories about the life of 100 extraordinary women from the past and the present, illustrated by 60 female artists from all over the world. This book inspires girls with the stories of great women...

In this valuable and revealing anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay collects original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence, and aggression they face, and where they are ?routinely secondguessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, ...

From the authors of the New York Times bestselling book Rad American Women AZ, comes a bold new collection of 40 biographical profiles, each accompanied by a striking illustrated portrait, showcasing extraordinary women from around the world.In Rad Women Worldwide, writer Kate Schatz and artist Miriam Klein Stahl tell fresh, engaging, and inspirin...

The companion to She Persisted.Women around the world have long dreamed big, even when they've been told their dreams didn't matter. They've spoken out, risen up and fought for what's right, even when they've been told to be quiet. Whether in science, the arts, sports or activism, women and girls throughout history have been determined to break bar...

Why do some women struggle to identify as feminists, despite their commitment to gender equality How do other aspects of our identities such as race, religion, sexuality, gender identity, and more impact how we relate to feminism Why is intersectionality so importantIn challenging, incisive, and fearless essays all of which appear here for...

In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique?often by n...

Illus. in full color. "Mr. Piggott and his sons are a male chauvinist lot who, outside of yelling for their dinner, don't exercise themselves much around the house. When Mrs. Piggott finally tires of the endless chores that sandwich her workday, she leaves the menfolk on their own, with a note saying, 'You are pigs.' With the cooking and housework ...

Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of colorIt has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. ...

Poetry. LGBT Studies. DIALECTIC OF THE FLESH brings together Roz Kaveney's poems on queer and trans experience, poems which run the gamut of emotions, from exuberant and witty celebrations of the joy of sex to elegies of murdered friends, written for Transgender Day of Remembrance.This collection showcases Kaveney's versatility, including both her ...

The Everyday Sexism Project was founded by writer and activist Laura Bates in April 2012. It began life as a website where people could share their experiences of daily, normalized sexism, from street harassment to workplace discrimination to sexual assault and rape.The Project became a viral sensation, attracting international press attention from...

The journalist Mona Eltahawy is no stranger to controversy. Through her articles and actions she has fought for the autonomy, security, and dignity of Muslim women, drawing vocal supporters and detractors. Now, in her first book, Headscarves and Hymens, Eltahawy has prepared a definitive condemnation of the repressive forcespolitical, cultural, a...

Get to know celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg?in the first picture book about her life?as she proves that disagreeing does not make you disagreeable!Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing: disagreeing with inequality, arguing against unfair treatment, and standing up for what?s right for people...

What does the F word mean to you The mustread book for 2018. Follow @feminists on Instagram for updates.A collection of writing from extraordinary women, from Hollywood actresses to teenage activists, each telling the story of their personal relationship with feminism, this book explores what it means to be a woman from every point of view.Often ...

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity the...

LET'S GET THE FEMINIST PARTY STARTED!Have you ever wanted to be a superheroine Join a fandom Create the perfect empowering playlist Understand exactly what it means to be a feminist in the twenty-first century You?ve come to the right place. Fortyfour writers, dancers, actors, and artists contribute essays, lists, poems, comics, and illustrati...

Feminist art and the fight for equalityArt and feminism: Once again, women are on the march. And since its inception in the 19th century, the women's movement has harnessed the power of images to transmit messages of social change and equality to the world.A comprehensive international survey of feminist art: From highlighting the posters of the Su...

Emma O?Donovan is eighteen, beautiful, and fearless. It?s the beginning of summer in a quiet Irish town and tonight she and her friends have dressed to impress. Everyone is at the big party, but all eyes are on Emma.The next morning Emma?s parents discover her in a heap on the doorstop of their home, unconscious. She is disheveled, bleeding, and di...

Part comingofage story, part mindaltering manifesto on gender and sexuality, coming directly to you from the life experiences of a transgender woman, "Gender Outlaw" breaks all the rules and leaves the reader forever changed.26 blackandwhite illustrations....

A literary sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authorsD. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genetand builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, phil...

The longawaited, inspirational guide to life for a generation of black British women inspired to make lemonade out of lemons, and find success in every area of their lives.?This book is a gift for anyone who wants to better understand what Black women and girls are up against ? and the tremendous resources they draw upon as they make their way in ...