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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorOn Liberty and Other Essays
John Stuart Mill · 592 pages
Anarchism and Other Essays
Emma Goldman · 201 pages
"Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence,--the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Margaret Fuller · 144 pages
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
Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature
Dorothy Allison · 262 pages
"In this compelling collection of essays and autobiographical narratives, the author probes her experience of being a lifelong feminist activist, a controversial sex radical, and an expatriate Southern writer with an attitude. Winner of the 1995 Lambda Literary Award (Lesbian Studies) and the 1995 American Library Association Gay/Lesbian Book Award."--BOOK JACKET.
Heroines
Kate Zambreno · 309 pages
"On the last day of December, 2009 Kate Zambreno began a blog called Frances Farmer Is My Sister, arising from her obsession with the female modernists and her recent transplantation to Akron, Ohio, where her husband held a university job. Widely reposted, Zambreno's blog became an outlet for her highly informed and passionate rants about the fates of the modernist "wives and mistresses." In her b
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
Adrienne Rich · 312 pages
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
bell hooks · 248 pages
"For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the '80s. Addressing topics like pedagogy, postmodernism, and politics, hooks examines a variety of cultural artifacts, from Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing and Wim Wenders's film Wings of Des
The Mother of All Questions
Rebecca Solnit · 176 pages
In this collection of essays, Solnit offers a timely commentary on gender and feminism. Her subjects include women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Alice Walker · 397 pages
How to Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran · 313 pages
Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do men secretly hate them? Caitlin Moran interweaves provocative observations on women's lives with l
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois · 192 pages
Du Bois' 1903 collection of essays is a thoughtful, articulate exploration of the moral and intellectual issues surrounding the perception of blacks within American society.
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
Jaclyn Friedman, Jessica Valenti · 372 pages
In this groundbreaking new look at rape edited by writer and activist Jaclyn Freidman and ‘Full Frontal Feminism’ and ‘He’s A Stud, She’s A Slut’ author Jessica Valenti, the way we view rape in our culture is finally dismantled and replaced with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure. Feminist, political, and activist writers alike will present their ideas for a paradigm sh
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
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Gloria Steinem · 406 pages
Steinem's most diverse and timeless collection of essays are found here, from the humorous expose "I Was a Playboy Bunny" to the moving tribute to her mother, "Ruth's Song." The satirical and hilarious "If Men Could Menstruate" is alone worth the price of admission.
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.
Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
Camille Paglia · 337 pages
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft · 207 pages
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
Elizabeth Wurtzel · 426 pages
Verhandeling over de stelling dat onafhankelijke, eigenzinnige vrouwen veel boeiender zijn dan brave, volgzame types en dat de maatschappij op hun gedrag veel negatiever reageert dan op vergelijkbaar gedrag van mannen.
Such, Such Were the Joys
George Orwell · 230 pages
Title essays reveals the abuse Orwell experienced as a child at an expensive and snobbish boarding school and other essays focus on Gandhi, Dickens, Kipling, and Henry Miller.
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
James Baldwin · 690 pages
Complete collection of major nonfiction writings by author James Baldwin, composed between 1948 and 1985, providing his perceptions of the twentieth century black American experience.
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.
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Flannery O'Connor · 237 pages
The essays and articles in this volume are concerned mainly with the art of fiction--its quality, in regional writing; its nature and its aims; and its relatino to the writer's religion.