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The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
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Saba Mahmood · 260 pages
"Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Sab
Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions
Naomi J. Williams, Huda Al-Marashi · 268 pages
"With stories by women from a wide range of religious communities--including Evangelical Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Mormon, Muslim, Calvinist, Moonie, the Unification Church, and Jehovah's Witnesses--the writers in Beyond Belief pull back a heavy curtain to reveal what they love about their lives within these communities, along with the pain that comes from the rigid expectations and diminishmen
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
Christopher Hitchens · 98 pages
Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians, the Church and the world's media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta appears to be on the fast track to sainthood. But what, asks Christopher Hitchens, makes Mother Teresa so divine? In a frank expose of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman's mission to the world's poor. He probes the source of the heroic status besto
Let Me be a Woman
Elisabeth Elliot · 190 pages
We are called to be women. The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman. For I have accepted God's idea of me, and my whole life is an offering back to him of all that I am and all that he wants me to be. In these days of conflicting demands and cultural pressures, what kind of woman do you wish
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin · 120 pages
**From Amazon.com:** A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, *The Fire Next Time* galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of
Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society
Fatema Mernissi, fTm@ lmrnysy · 197 pages
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth, Olive Gilbert · 144 pages
"A symbol of the strength of African-American women, and a champion of the rights of all women, Sojourner Truth was an illiterate former slave named Isabella who became a vastly powerful orator. Dictated to a neighbor and first published in 1850, Truth's celebrated story chronicles her life as a slave in New York State, her 1827 emancipation under state law, her religious experiences and her trans
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
Melinda Gates · 288 pages
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Geraldine Brooks
The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam
Fatema Mernissi · 240 pages
The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi · 352 pages
From inside front cover: The story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a ... loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a coutnry plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trails of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming -- both sweet and terrible; and, fina
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
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
Leila Ahmed · 304 pages
Explores the historical roots of the debate about women in Islamic societies by tracing the developments in Islamic discourses on women and gender up to the present. The book describes the gender systems in place in the Middle East both before and after the rise of Islam.
Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Asra Q. Nomani · 320 pages
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
bell hooks · 205 pages
A world renowned author, scholar, public intellectual, and activist, bell hooks was 19 years old when she wrote *Ain't I a Woman* (published ten years later). It was her first book, and one of the first published by South End Press, an independent, np, collectively-organized publisher dedicated to advancing movements for radical social change.
Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
Jessa Crispin · 151 pages
Do you believe women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist ... or so the feminists keep insisting. Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism-- and a bracing manifesto for revolution. She accuses the feminist movement of obliviousness, irrelevance, and cowardice-- and demands nothing less than the total dismantling of a syste
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
Angela Garbes · 256 pages
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards · 240 pages
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
Sarah Bessey · 240 pages
Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today’s church to move beyond man-made restrictions and fully welcome women’s diverse voices and experiences. A freedom song for the church. Sarah Bessey didn’t ask for Jesus to come in and mess up all her ideas about a woman’s place in the world and in the church. But patriar
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Mona Eltahawy · 256 pages
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Beverly Guy-Sheftall · 577 pages
An anthology of African American Feminist thought.
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