Book strip #1

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  Promise of a Dream

  by Sheila Rowbotham

  At the beginning of the decade renowned historian Sheila Rowbotham was a rebellious sixteen-year-old at a Methodist boarding school in the north-east of England, reading Sartre and dreaming of Pari...
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  Flora Tristan

  by Sandra Dijkstra

  Active in the 1830s and 1840s, Flora Tristan is best known for her book "Workers' Union", an account of the conditions of women and workers in Peru, London, Paris and the provinces of France. Regar...
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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...