Fifty Shades of Feminism

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

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.

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

Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha · 325 pages

Long demanded and urgently needed, The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities finally breaks the dangerous silence surrounding the secret” of intimate violence within social justice circles. This watershed collection of stories and strategies tackles the multiple forms of violence encountered right where we live, love, and work for social change and de

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

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

Beverly Guy-Sheftall · 577 pages

An anthology of African American Feminist thought.

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

Meghan Daum · 282 pages

I Call Myself A Feminist: The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty

Victoria Pepe, Rachel Holmes, Amy Annette, Martha Mosse, Alice Stride · 278 pages

Following the success of Fifty Shades of Feminism comes a collection by twenty-five girls and women under thirty. Here are some of the brightest, funniest, bravest young women including: Laura Bates (of Everyday Sexism), Emeli Sande (singer at the 2012 Olympics), Reni Eddo-Lodge (award-winning journalist), Yas Necarti (eighteen-year-old activist against Page 3), Meltem Avcil (campaigner for the en

Transforming a Rape Culture

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

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

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

bell hooks · 189 pages

Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class

Michelle Tea · 240 pages

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Cherrie L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldua · 261 pages

This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. from Google Books

No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood

Henriette Mantel · 228 pages

In a collection of essays, women writers and personalities, including Margaret Cho, Laurie Graff, and Wendy Liebman, reveal why they opted out of motherhood.

Kid Me Not: An anthology by child-free women of the '60s now in their 60s

Aralyn Hughes · 108 pages

"Whatever became of the youth of the ‘60s, the turbulent era of sex, drugs and rock & roll? [This] collection of intimate stories by women from the first generation ever to have access to The Pill, offers a unique perspective on the decade before Roe v. Wade, when free love wasn’t always free. As the women’s movement spread, these women faced a future of extraordinary possibilities – possibilities

The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own

Veronica Chambers · 249 pages

While many books have looked at Michelle Obama from a style perspective, none has fully explored what she means to our culture. The Meaning of Michelle does just that, while offering a parting gift to a landmark moment in American history. It is also a rollicking, lively conversation about race, class, marriage, creativity, womanhood and what it means to be American today.

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

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.

Mothers Who Think: Tales Of Real-Life Parenthood

Camille Peri, Kate Moses · 293 pages

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

Angela Garbes · 256 pages

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

Women in Clothes

Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton · 521 pages

"An exploration of the questions we ask ourselves while getting dressed every day, and the answers from more than six hundred women"--From back cover.

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

Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume

Meg Cabot, Megan McCafferty, Melissa Senate, Diana Peterfreund, Stephanie Lessing, Laura Ruby, Erica Orloff, Stacey Ballis, Julie Kenner, Kristin Harmel, Jennifer Coburn, Elise Juska, Kyra Davis, Beth Kendrick, Berta Platas, Lynda Curnyn, Kayla Perrin, Cara Lockwood, Alison Pace, Megan Crane, Lara D · 275 pages

Whether laughing to tears or clamoring for more unmistakable "me too!" moments, girls all over the world have been touched by Judy Blume's poignant coming-of-age stories. Now, in this anthology of essays, 24 notable female authors write straight from the heart about the unforgettable novels that left an indelible mark on their childhoods and still influence them today. After growing up from Tales

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf · 129 pages

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 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 explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the m