Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
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...
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...
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,...
An American Anarchist
The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
“An American Anarchist closes a major gap in our understanding of American an- archism and particularly a gap in our understanding of its deep roots in American radicalism. It makes the same contribution to our understanding of American feminism.” —Richard Drinnon, author of Rebel in Paradise:...
by G. K. Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
In the aptly titled treatise What's Wrong With the World, one of the twentieth century's most memorable and prolific writers takes on education, government, big business, feminism, and a host of other topics. A steadfast champion of the working man, family, and faith, Chesterton eloquently opposed...
by Alexandra Pierce, Mimi Mondal
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Luminescent Threads celebrates Octavia E. Butler, a pioneer of the science fiction genre who paved the way for future African American writers and other writers of colour.
Original essays and letters sourced and curated for this collection explore Butler’s depiction of power relationships,...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Penguin Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity,...
The Myth of Seneca Falls
Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her...
Subject to Debate
Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Subject to Debate, Katha Pollitt's column in The Nation, has offered readers clear-eyed yet provocative observations on women, politics, and culture for more than seven years. Bringing together eighty-eight of her most astute essays on hot-button topics like abortion, affirmative action, and school...
by Jessica Valenti
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Double standards are nothing new. Women deal with them every day. Take the common truism that women who sleep around are sluts while men are studs. Why is it that men grow distinguished and sexily gray as they age while women just get saggy and haggard? Have you ever wondered how a young woman is...
Cybersexism
Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
'The Internet was supposed to be for everyone... Millions found their voices in this brave new online world; it gave unheard masses the space to speak to each other without limits, across borders, both physical and social. It was supposed to liberate us from gender. But as more and more of our daily...
Liberating Motherhood
Birthing the Purplestockings Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Highly acclaimed by leading parenting authors, academics and activists, with a foreword from Naomi Stadlen, founder of Mothers Talking and author of What Mothers Do, and How Mothers Love.
If it is true that there have been waves of feminism, then mothers’ rights are the flotsam left behind...
by Penguin Books Ltd
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.'
A potted history of the women who pioneered feminism and changed the world.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate...