Feminism category: 1647 books
I Am an Emotional Creature
The Secret Life of Girls Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
In this daring book, internationally acclaimed author and playwright Eve Ensler offers fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe. Fierce, tender, and smart, I Am an Emotional Creature is a celebration of the authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action...
Heretic's Heart
A Journey through Spirit and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Starting in 1964, writes Margot Adler in this dazzling memoir, “I found myself mysteriously at the center of extraordinary events.” Now a correspondent for National Public Radio, Adler was a young woman determined to be taken seriously and to be an agent of change—on her own terms, free from...
Ellen Wilkinson
From Red Suffragist to Government Minister
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Ellen Wilkinson was a key radical figure in the 20th century British socialist and feminist movement, a woman of passionate energy who was involved in most of the major struggles of her time.
Born in October 1891 into a working-class textile family, Wilkinson was involved in womens suffrage,...
The New Soft War on Women
How the Myth of Female Ascendance Is Hurting Women, Men--and Our Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
For the first time in history, women make up half the educated labor force and are earning the majority of advanced degrees. It should be the best time ever for women, and yet... it’s not. Storm clouds are gathering, and the worst thing is that most women don’t have a clue what could be coming....
Ambition Redefined
Why the Corner Office Doesn't Work for Every Woman & What to Do Instead
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
"This is the playbook for how to get flexibility in your career." - Molly Beck, author, Reach Out and founder of MessyBun.com
**"Critical advice for women when the traditional office job doesn't fit family life." - Meredith Bodgas, Editor-in-Chief, Working Mother magazine
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by Angela Y. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis.
Killing the Black Body
Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies, Killing the Black Body exposed America’s systemic abuse of Black women’s bodies. From slave masters’...
The Majority Finds Its Past
Placing Women in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Lauded for its contribution to the theory and conceptualization of the field of women's history and for its sensitivity to the differences of class, ethnicity, race, and culture among women, The Majority Finds Its Past became a classic volume in women's history following its publication in 1979. This...
After Morgentaler
The Politics of Abortion in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The landmark decision R. v. Morgentaler (1988) struck down Canada’s abortion law and is widely believed to have established a right to abortion, but its actual impact is much less decisive; and women’s access to abortion in Canada remains uneven and at risk of being curtailed. In After Morgentaler,...
Feminismo em comum
Para todas, todes e todos
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Livro feminista da filósofa Marcia Tiburi, autora de Como conversar com um fascista. Marcia Tiburi nos convida a repensar as estruturas de nossa sociedade e a levar o feminismo a sério, para além de modismos e discursos prontos. Ao criticar e repensar o movimento, com linguagem acessível tanto...
Rebels in White Gloves
Coming of Age with Hillary's Class--Wellesley '69
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
When the women of the Wellesley class of 1969 entered the ivory tower, they were initiated into a rarefied world. Many were daughters of privilege, many were going for their "MRS." But by the time they graduated four years later, they faced a world turned upside down by the Pill, NOW, student...
Impeachment, A Uniquely Political Punishment
Or, How Bill Clinton Was Paid Back For Twenty Years of Predatory Behavior Toward Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This book is a legal treatise on impeachment law, and something more: a meditation on the inexorable course of retribution that finally caught up with Bill Clinton, making him only the second U.S. President in history to be impeached. If you’re a student of political science or law, this book...
Harem Years
The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
A firsthand account of the private world of a harem in colonial Cairo—by a groundbreaking Egyptian feminist who helped liberate countless women.
In this compelling memoir, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household, including her...
by Aristophanes, Arabella Kenealy, Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
This volume contains several complete works that are as important, relevant, and controversial now as when they were originally written:
“Lysistrata,” by Aristophanes describes a clever way that women can stop a war.
Written before the understanding of DNA, F”eminism and...