Feminism category: 1647 books
Women Know Everything!
3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
WIT AND WISDOM FROM A TO Z
With more than 3,000 quotations on everything from fashion and feminism to men, marriage, friendship, history, technology, sports, and more, this massive compilation proves once and for all that women know everything! Each page offers wisdom, wit, and inspiration...
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of Americanah, “one of the world’s great contemporary writers” (Barack Obama).
In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda...
Invisibility Blues
From Pop to Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
First published in 1990, Michele Wallace’s Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism.
Wallace’s considerations of the black experience in America include recollections of her early life in Harlem; a look at the continued underrepresentation of...
Quarterly Essay 50 Unfinished Business
Sex, Freedom and Misogyny
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
On the surface, it seems the best time ever to be a woman in Australia. The prime minister, governor-general and the richest person are all female; women are at the forefront of almost every area of public life. Yet when Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech ricocheted around the world, it clearly touched...
This Will Be My Undoing
Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman today—perfect...
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
**A powerful statement about feminism today from “one of the world’s great contemporary writers” (Barack Obama), the author of *Americanah *and **We Should All Be Feminists.
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted...
Female Chauvinist Pigs
Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
A classic work on gender culture exploring how the women’s movement has evolved to Girls Gone Wild in a new, self-imposed chauvinism. In the tradition of Susan Faludi’s Backlash and Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth, New York Magazine writer Ariel Levy studies the effects of modern feminism on women...
Unscrewed
Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
An urgent account of sexual politics, feminism, and the rules of power in America-and a potent vision for the way forward
As a veteran feminist and agenda-setting sex educator, Jaclyn Friedman is on the frontlines of the war for equity between the sexes. In Unscrewed, Friedman brings her sharp...
Everyday Sexism
The Project that Inspired a Worldwide Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
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...
Sex and the Single Girl: The Unmarried Woman's Guide to Men
The Unmarried Woman's Guide to Men
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The trailblazing book that jump-started the sexual revolution
Helen Gurley Brown, the iconic editor in chief of Cosmopolitan for thirty-two years, is considered one of the most influential figures of Second Wave feminism. Her first book sold millions of copies, became a cultural phenomenon,...
Rebel Crossings
New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century
Rebel Crossings relates the interweaving lives of four women and two men as they journey from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, from Britain to America, and from Old World conventions toward New World...
The Sisterhood
The Inside Story of the Women's Movement and the Leaders Who Made it Happen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In this epic drama of personality and politics, passion and ambition, courage and betrayal, Marcia Cohen tells the fascinating inside story of the feminist revolution through the lives of the women who made it—and were sometimes unmade by it. Focusing on Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer,...
by Rebecca Solnit
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
Praise for Men Explain Things to Me:
"It's a fraught time to be female in America (or should I say fraught-er), and Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me is the most clarifying, soothing, and socially aware document I've read on the topic this year."—Lena Dunham, Wall Street...
Call Them by Their True Names
American Crises (and Essays)
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
“Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading.” —The New Republic
“Solnit’s exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy.” —Elle
Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books including the international bestseller...