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  The Dialectic of Sex

  by Shulamith Firestone

  An international best-seller, first published in 1970 when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, The Dialectic of Sex broke new ground in presenting a theory of politics for the women...
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  Psychoanalysis and Feminism

  by Juliet Mitchell

  Psychoanalysis and Feminism presents a profound and groundbreaking case for Freud’s writing as an indispensable part of feminist thought. As Juliet Mitchell argues, if we are truly interested in un...
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  Repetition

  by Vigdis Hjorth

  Translated by Charlotte Barslund

  As winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to reexamine her past. The seismic events following her sixteenth birthday return with haunting vivid...
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  Red Valkyries

  by Kristen Ghodsee

  Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Europe, following the lives and careers of five prominent women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the aristocrati...
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  The Arcana of Reproduction

  by Leopoldina Fortunati

  Translated by Arlen Austin and Sara Colantuono

  Emerging from the great social upheavals that contested the sexual and racial divisions of labor globally in the 1970s, Leopoldina Fortunati’s classic work expands and transforms how we analyze the...
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  My Country, Africa

  by Andrée Blouin

  with Jean Mackellar

  Epilogue by Eve Blouin

  Foreword by Adom Getachew and Thomas Meaney

  Andrée Blouin—once called the most dangerous woman in Africa—played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in the 1950s and ’60s, advising the postcolonial lead...
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  Woman's Estate

  by Juliet Mitchell

  Scrutinizing the political background of the movement, its sources and its common ground with other radical movements of the sixties, Women's Estate describes the organization of women's liberation...
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  The Anti-Social Family

  by Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

  The stereotypical nuclear family is in the minority of households, yet remains a powerful ideology. This classic of socialist feminism charts how the family reinforces conditions of inequality, and...
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  Females

  by Andrea Long Chu

  “Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.”So begins Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and ...
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  Motherdom

  by Alex Bollen

  Good Mother myths find mothers at fault whatever they do. Alex Bollen proposes ‘motherdom’, a new way to live. Motherdom values and respects the different ways people raise their children, shifting...
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  Straight Sex

  by Lynne Segal

  Is heterosexual sex inherently damaging to women? Is it possible for women to enjoy sensuality and pleasure with men that does not increase male power? Lynne Segal's unflinching examination of femi...
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  Cinema and Desire

  Edited by Tani E. Barlow and Jing Wang

  Dai Jinhua is one of contemporary China’s most influential theoreticians and cultural critics. A feminist Marxist, her literary, film and TV commentary has, over the last decade, addressed an expan...
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  Bodies Under Siege

  by Sian Norris

  Think today's anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today's anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extr...
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  Feminist Antifascism

  by Ewa Majewska

  In this exciting, innovative work, Polish feminist philosopher Ewa Majewska maps the creation of feminist counterpublics around the world—spaces of protest and ideas, community and common struggle,...
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  A Kick in the Belly

  by Stella Dadzie

  The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggle for liberation.Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of historical r...
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  Feminism or Death

  by Francoise d'Eaubonne

  Translated by Ruth Hottell

  Originally published in French in 1974, radical feminist Francoise d’Eaubonne surveyed women’s status around the globe and argued that the stakes of feminist struggle was not about equality but abo...
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  SCUM Manifesto

  by Valerie Solanas

  Introduction by Avital Ronell

  “Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the...
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  A Short History of Trans Misogyny

  by Jules Gill-Peterson

  Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson’s richly detailed narrative takes us from New York, London, and Paris to the colonial districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawai’i to tell ...
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  Organize, Fight, Win

  by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean

  Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building collective power in the fight for liberation. Through concrete mater...
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  Fortunes of Feminism

  by Nancy Fraser

  Second Wave feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements. But feminism’s subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a dec...
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  Sexuality and Class Struggle

  by Reimut Reiche

  This book which combines the methods and results of both Freud and Marx is by one of the leaders of the West German student left during its most militant phase in the late 1960s. For reasons the au...
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  Troubled Pleasures

  by Kate Soper

  What happens when ‘life’s simple joys’ become complicated? When pleasure is transformed as a function of consumption, the innocent comforts of food, nature and place are embedded in complex practic...
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  The Social Origins of Private Life

  by Stephanie Coontz

  Current debates about the future of the family are often based on serious misconceptions about its past. Arguing that there is no biologically mandated or universally functional family form, Stepha...
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  Radius

  by Yasmin El-Rifae

  During the final months of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, a group of activists came together to intervene in the mob sexual assaults recurring amid the ongoing protests of Tahrir Square. The organiz...
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  Women's Work, Men's Property

  Contributions by Nicole Chevillard, Sébastien Leconte, Lila Leibowitz and Monique Saliou

  Edited by Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson

  “To some a book on the origins of sexual inequality is absurd. Male dominance seems to them a universal, if not inevitable, phenomenon that has been with us since the dawn of our species. The essay...
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  Beyond Female Masochism

  by Frigga Haug

  Translated by Rodney Livingstone

  Frigga Haug, one of Germany’s best-known feminist and Marxist critics, develops here a profound challenge both to women’s oppression and to what she sees as women’s ‘collusion’ in that oppression. ...
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  Feminist City

  by Leslie Kern

  What should a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space wi...
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  The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

  by Friedrich Engels

  Foreword by Jennifer Doyle

  Introduction by Eleanor Burke Leacock

  In this provocative and now-classic work, Friedrich Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society to the Victorian era. Drawing on new anthropologica...
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  What We Don't Talk About

  by JoAnn Wypijewski

  What if we took sex out of the box marked ‘special’, either the worst or best thing that a human person can experience, and considered it within the complexity of reality? In this extraordinary boo...
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  Betraying Big Brother

  by Leta Hong Fincher

  On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary C...
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  The Feminist and The Sex Offender

  by Judith Levine and Erica R. Meiners

  With analytical clarity and narrative force, The Feminist and the Sex Offender contends with two problems that are typically siloed in the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration: sexual and gender vi...
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  Glitch Feminism

  by Legacy Russell

  The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within this digital era? Where do we create the space to explore our...
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  Abortion Beyond the Law

  by Naomi Braine

  Drawing on years of research with activists around the world, sociologist Naomi Braine describes the strategies, politics, and tactics of direct action feminists bringing abortion pills, informatio...
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  Set Fear on Fire

  by LASTESIS

  After the feminist art collective LASTESIS created their performance "A Rapist in Your Path" in their native Chile, it went viral across the globe, becoming the anthem of the grassroots feminist mo...
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  Deadly and Slick

  by Sita Balani

  If race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does it continue to seem like a physiological reality? The trickery of race, Sita Balani argues, comes down to how it is embedded ...
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  Miss Major Speaks

  by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek

  Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the H...
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  Abolish the Family

  by Sophie Lewis

  What if we could do better than the family?We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonmen...
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  Sylvia Pankhurst

  by Barbara Winslow

  Foreword by Sheila Rowbotham

  Along with her mother Emmeline, and her sister Christabel, Sylvia Pankhurst was one of the leading women’s suffrage activists in early twentieth-century England, working with the militant Women’s S...
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  Making Space

  by Matrix

  Making Space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women’s lives. It exposes the sexist assumptions on gender and sexualit...
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  Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

  by Michele Wallace

  Foreword by Jamilah Lemieux

  Originally published in 1978, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman caused a storm of controversy. Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biases of the black politics that emerged from the si...
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  Heart Of The Race

  by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe

  Introduction by Lola Okolosie

  Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history from which black women have long been excluded. It reclaims and records black women’s place in that history, documenting...
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  Beyond the Pale

  by Vron Ware

  Foreword by Mikki Kendall

  How have ideas about white women figured in the history of racism? Vron Ware argues that they have been central, and that feminism has largely developed as a political movement within racist societ...
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  De Colores Means All of Us

  by Elizabeth Sutherland Martînez

  Foreword by Angela Davis

  Introduction by Karma R. Chavez

  Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice arises from over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us,...
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  Close to Home

  by Christine Delphy

  Foreword by Rachel Hills

  Translated by Diana Leonard

  Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women’s liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whet...
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  The Rising of the Women

  by Meredith Tax

  Foreword by Sarah Jaffe

  In this landmark study of American labor history, Meredith Tax charts the actions of women in working-class, feminist, and socialist movements between 1880 and 1917 in the USA. Caught between the h...
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  Cultures in Babylon

  by Hazel V. Carby

  Bringing together multi-award-winning author Hazel Carby’s most important and influential essays, Cultures in Babylon addresses the political dilemmas of representing Black women as sexual subjects...
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  Abortion and Women's Choice

  by Rosalind Petchesky

  Foreword by Zillah Eisenstein

  This prize-winning study is the definitive work on the politics of abortion and fertility. Rosalind Pollack Petchesky provides overwhelming evidence against the anti-abortion forces and in the proc...
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  Woman's Consciousness, Man's World

  by Sheila Rowbotham

  A groundbreaking contribution to debates on women's oppression and consciousness, and the connections between socialism and feminism. Examining feminist consciousness from various vantage points - ...

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  Women, Resistance and Revolution

  by Sheila Rowbotham

  In Women, Resistance and Revolution, Sheila Rowbotham traces four centuries of feminist struggle and revolutionary politics. She reveals how women have confronted the dual challenges of an unjust s...

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  Feminist City

  by Leslie Kern

  What should a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space wi...

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  A Kick in the Belly

  by Stella Dadzie

  The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggle for liberation.Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of historical r...

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  Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

  by Katherine Angel

  Women are in a bind. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Yet sex researchers suggest that women’s desire is often slow to emerge. And m...

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  Daring to Hope

  by Sheila Rowbotham

  In this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the women’s liberation movement, left politics and the creative radical culture of a decade in which freedom and ...

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  Making Space

  by Matrix

  Making Space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women’s lives. It exposes the sexist assumptions on gender and sexualit...

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  Feminism for the 99%

  by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser

  Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, healthcare, climate change, border policing; not the issues you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But don’t these issues impact the vast majority of wome...

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  Revolting Prostitutes

  by Juno Mac and Molly Smith

  How the law harms sex workers - and what they want insteadDo you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justi...

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  Glitch Feminism

  by Legacy Russell

  The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within this digital era? Where do we create the space to explore our...

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  Feminism or Death

  by Francoise d'Eaubonne

  Translated by Ruth Hottell

  Originally published in French in 1974, radical feminist Francoise d’Eaubonne surveyed women’s status around the globe and argued that the stakes of feminist struggle was not about equality but abo...

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  Full Surrogacy Now

  by Sophie Lewis

  "Rooted in historical, site-based, narrative, and political accounts, Full Surrogacy Now is the seriously radical cry for full gestational justice that I long for. This kind of gestation depends on...

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  Females

  by Andrea Long Chu

  “Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.”So begins Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and ...

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  Taking A Long Look

  by Vivian Gornick

  For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick’s essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and pe...

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  Sylvia Pankhurst

  by Barbara Winslow

  Foreword by Sheila Rowbotham

  Along with her mother Emmeline, and her sister Christabel, Sylvia Pankhurst was one of the leading women’s suffrage activists in early twentieth-century England, working with the militant Women’s S...

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  Feminist Antifascism

  by Ewa Majewska

  In this exciting, innovative work, Polish feminist philosopher Ewa Majewska maps the creation of feminist counterpublics around the world—spaces of protest and ideas, community and common struggle,...

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  What We Don't Talk About

  by JoAnn Wypijewski

  What if we took sex out of the box marked ‘special’, either the worst or best thing that a human person can experience, and considered it within the complexity of reality? In this extraordinary boo...

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  Feminist International

  by Verónica Gago

  Translated by Liz Mason-Deese

  Recent years have seen massive feminist mobilizations in virtually every continent, overturning social mores and repressive legislation. In this brilliant and original look at the emerging feminist...

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  Fortunes of Feminism

  by Nancy Fraser

  Second Wave feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements. But feminism’s subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a dec...

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  Burn It Down!

  by Breanne Fahs

  Burn It Down! is a testament to what is possible when women are driven to the edge. Collecting over seventy-five manifestos from around the world, Burn It Down! is a rallying cry and a call to acti...

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  The Xenofeminist Manifesto

  by Laboria Cuboniks

  The Xenofeminist Manifesto is an attempt to articulate a feminism fit for the twenty-first century. Unafraid of exploring the potentials of technology, exploring both oppressive and emancipatory po...

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  Heart Of The Race

  by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe

  Introduction by Lola Okolosie

  Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history from which black women have long been excluded. It reclaims and records black women’s place in that history, documenting...

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  The Future of Difference

  by Sabine Hark and Paula-Irene Villa

  Translated by Sophie Lewis

  The Future of Difference theorises contemporary regimes of power as engaged primarily in the violent production of difference. In this moment, the logic of ‘other and rule’ thoroughly permeates the...

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  The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems

  by Nancy Folbre

  Why do patriarchal systems survive? In this groundbreaking work of feminist theory, Nancy Folbre examines the contradictory effects of capitalist development. She explains why the work of caring fo...

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  The Verso Book of Feminism

  Edited by Jessie Kindig

  Throughout written history and across the world, women have protested the restrictions of gender and the limitations placed on women’s bodies and women’s lives. People—of any and no gender—have pro...

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  Betraying Big Brother

  by Leta Hong Fincher

  On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary C...

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  Sexuality in the Field of Vision

  by Jacqueline Rose

  A pivotal work in the history of feminism and a groundbreaking intervention into film theory, Sexuality in the Field of Vision is a brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminis...

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  Red Rosa

  by Kate Evans

  Afterword by Paul Buhle

  Edited by Paul Buhle

  A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself heard in a wo...

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  If They Come in the Morning

  by Angela Davis

  The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Ange...

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  Trans

  by Juliet Jacques

  Afterword by Sheila Heti

  In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to ...

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  Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

  by Kumari Jayawardena

  Foreword by Rafia Zakaria

  For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Midd...

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  Constituting Feminist Subjects

  by Kathi Weeks

  Kathi Weeks suggests that one of the most important tasks for contemporary feminist theory is to develop theories of the subject that are adequate to feminist politics. Although the 1980s modernist...

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  Playing the Whore

  by Melissa Gira Grant

  The sex industry is an endless source of prurient drama for the mainstream media. Recent years have seen a panic over "online red-light districts," which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women ...

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  Woman's Consciousness, Man's World

  by Sheila Rowbotham

  A groundbreaking contribution to debates on women's oppression and consciousness, and the connections between socialism and feminism. Examining feminist consciousness from various vantage points - ...

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  Women's Oppression Today

  by Michèle Barrett

  Foreword by Kathi Weeks

  Women’s Oppression Today is a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism, exploring how gender, sexuality and the “family-household system” operate in relation to contemporary capitalism...

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  Invisibility Blues

  by Michele Wallace

  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 ...

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  The Anti-Social Family

  by Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

  The stereotypical nuclear family is in the minority of households, yet remains a powerful ideology. This classic of socialist feminism charts how the family reinforces conditions of inequality, and...

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  Making Trouble

  by Lynne Segal

  What happens when angry young rebels become wary older women, ageing in a leaner, meaner time: a time which exalts only the ‘new’, in a ruling orthodoxy daily disparaging all it portrays as the ‘ol...

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