Feminism category: 1647 books
Queens of Comedy
Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers, and the New Generation of Funny Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Through candid personal interviews with Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, and other visionary performers, Queens of Comedy explores how comediennes have redefined the roles of women in not only the entertainment business, but society as a whole. Detailing both their public and private lives - as well as...
by 蘇．勞伊德．羅伯茨 Sue Lloyd-Roberts
Language: Chinese
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: Chinese
Release Date: January 10, 2018
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"If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?"
Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Gina Barreca is fed up with women who lean in, but don't open their mouths. In her latest collection of essays, she turns her attention to subjects like bondage which she notes now seems to come in fifty shades of grey and has been renamed Spanx. She muses on those lessons learned in Kindergarten...
by Gloria Steinem
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A powerful and moving treatise on the surprises of aging from an influential feminist writer and activist who thinks beyond stereotypes
The older I get, the more intensely I feel about the world around me.
Gloria Steinem has been an eloquent and outspoken voice for women’s rights and...
Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
A Book of Self-Esteem
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
“Without self-esteem, the only change is an exchange of masters; with it, there is no need for masters.” —Gloria Steinem
When trying to find books to give to “the countless brave and smart women I met who didn’t think of themselves as either brave or smart,” Gloria Steinem realized...
by Hillary Carlip
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Carlip illuminates the worries, hopes, dreams and experiences of girls ages 13 to 19, through their stories, poems, letters and notes. Their voices come from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives--cowgals, lesbians, teen mothers, sorority sisters and girls in gangs--and reveal the depth, vulnerability, wisdom and power of the writers.
Backwards and in Heels
The Past, Present And Future Of Women Working In Film
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
• Malone has over 1 million views on YouTube • TedTalk #GirlsinFilm has been seen over 25,000 times • Gender Inequality in Film by the numbers: o In the top 500 movies of all time: 70% of all speaking roles go to men // 2 to 1 ratio of nudity // teenage females depicting nudity has risen by...
Girl Up
Kick Ass, Claim Your Woman Card, and Crush Everyday Sexism
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Already an international bestseller, this empowering survival guide provides no-nonsense advice on sex, social media, mental health, and sexism that young women face in their everyday life—from one of the emerging leaders in the feminist movement.
They told you that you need to be thin and...
Ask
Building Consent Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Have you ever heard the phrase "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?" Violating consent isn't limited to sexual relationships, and our discussions around consent shouldn't be, either. To resist rape culture, we need a consent culture—and one that is more than just reactionary....
$pread
The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
“A fascinating collection from a group of courageous women who created the first publication to explore sex work in a compelling and intelligent way.” —Candida Royalle
$pread, an Utne Award–winning magazine by and for sex workers, was independently published from 2005 to 2011. This collection...
Cunt, 20th Anniversary Edition
A Declaration of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The twentieth-anniversary edition of the original women's empowerment manifesto
An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off its noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim the term as...
by Edited by Cynthia Black
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
A Woman's wisdom is one of the earth's greatest natural resources. With a perspective that only a certain number of years on earth can bring the thirty-two women in Midlife Clarity show that midlife can be a release of our true self a chance to be free of others' expectations and a time...
All the Women in My Family Sing
Women Write the World: Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
All the Women in My Family Sing is an anthology documenting the experiences of women of color at the dawn of the twenty-first century. It is a vital collection of prose and poetry whose topics range from the pressures of being the vice-president of a Fortune 500 Company, to escaping the killing fields...
by Alexandra Kitty
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Why gender-specific books are needed -- for the simple fact that women's work is never done!
About the Author
Alexandra Kitty is a dangerous woman who is the author of Don’t Believe It!: How lies become news, OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s war on journalism, and Consumer-isms in 12...