The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities

The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future

Alexandra Brodsky, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff · 359 pages

"In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge voices, including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, Sheila Heti, and Mia McKenzie, invite us to imagine a truly feminist world. An abortion provider reinvents birth control, Sheila Bapat envisions an economy that values domestic work, a teenage rock band dreams up a new way to make music, Katherine Cross rewrites the Constitution, an

Fifty Shades of Feminism

Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes, Susie Orbach · 331 pages

50 years after the publication of 'The Feminine Mystique', have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping, and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink? In this volume, 50 women reflect on the shades that inspired them and what being woman means to them today.

Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families

Leslie Morgan Steiner · 346 pages

With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman's life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington Post, a writer, and mother of three, she has lived and breathed every side of the "mommy wars." Rather than j

BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine

Lisa Jervis, Andi Zeisler · 386 pages

Offers an assortment of the most provocative essays, reporting, rants, and raves from Bitch magazine's first ten years, along with new pieces written especially for this collection.

Transforming a Rape Culture

Emilie Buchwald, Pamela R. Fletcher, Martha Roth · 412 pages

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

Meghan Daum · 282 pages

Infidel

Ayaan Hirsi Ali · 353 pages

"Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali's story tells how a bright little girl evolved out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no story could be timelier or more significant.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Julia Serano · 416 pages

A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. Serano shares her experiences and observations—both pre- and post-transition—to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our

Daughters Of Shame

Jasvinder Sanghera · 304 pages

'I listen to those stories ' told by women who have been drugged, beaten, imprisoned, raped and terrorised within the walls of the homes they grew up in. I listen and I am humbled by their resilience.' Jasvinder Sanghera knows what it means to flee from your family under threat of forced marriage' and to face the terrible consequences that follow. As a young girl that was just what she had to do.

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

Angela Garbes · 256 pages

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

bell hooks · 189 pages

Woman Hating

Andrea Dworkin · 218 pages

How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

Slavenka Drakulic · 193 pages

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis · 176 pages

>In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar **Angela Y. Davis** illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future

Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards · 240 pages

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

Nikole Hannah-Jones · 590 pages

Ways of Seeing

John Berger · 166 pages

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we e

Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

Laurie Penny · 288 pages

Smart, clear-eyed and irreverent, 'Unspeakable Things' is a fresh look at gender and power in the 21st century which asks difficult questions about dissent and desire, money and masculinity, sexual violence, menial work, mental health, queer politics and the Internet. Journalist and activist Laurie Penny draws on a broad history of feminist thought and her own experience in radical subcultures in

Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology

Incite! Women of Color Against Violence · 325 pages

"Presenting the fierce and vital writing of organizers, lawyers, scholars, poets, and policy makers, Color of Violence radically repositions the antiviolence movement by putting women of color at its center. The contributors shift the focus from domestic violence and sexual assault and map innovative strategies of movement building and resistance used by women of color around the world. The volume

Whores and Other Feminists

Jill Nagle · 291 pages

Whores and Other Feminists is the first volume to examine sex work and the sex industry through the eyes of self-identified feminist sex workers - strippers, prostitutes, porn writers, producers and performers, dominatrices - and their allies. Comprising a range of voices from both within and outside the academy, this collection draws from traditional feminisms, postmodern feminism, queer theory,

Bad Feminist

Roxane Gay · 360 pages

A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. "Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink, all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once l

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge · 272 pages

In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote on her blog about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by it. Her words hit a nerve. The post went viral and comments flooded in from others desperate to speak up about their own experiences. Galvanised, she decided to dig into the source of these feelings. Ex

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought

Beverly Guy-Sheftall · 577 pages

An anthology of African American Feminist thought.

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Jia Tolentino · 303 pages