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Separate and Dominate

by Christine Delphy

An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures

60 posts
The Anti-Social Family

by Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

Sensitive but uncompromising socialist-feminist critique of the nuclear family

29 posts
Straight Sex

by Lynne Segal
A manifesto of sexual liberation, from the leading feminist thinker
31 posts
Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World

by Sheila Rowbotham

Groundbreaking examination of the birth, development and impact of Feminist consciousness

33 posts

Woman’s Estate

by Juliet Mitchell

Classic statement of socialist feminism, from one of its leading thinkers

37 posts
Feminist Radical Thinkers

by Michèle Barrett, Mary McIntosh, et al.
A collection of extracts from leading second-wave feminists, including Michèle Barrett, Mary McIntosh, Lynne Segal, Sheila Rowbotham and Juliet Mitchell
7 posts
Women’s Oppression Today

by Michèle Barrett

“This book is a school of thought.” – Frigga Haug, Das Argument

26 posts
Playing the Whore

by Melissa Gira Grant

“An important contribution to debates around sex and work ... deserves to be read.” – Nina Power

40 posts

Women, Resistance and Revolution

by Sheila Rowbotham

“A key figure of the second wave.”–Melissa Benn, The Guardian

31 posts
Fortunes of Feminism

by Nancy Fraser
Charts the history of women's liberation and calls for a revitalized feminism.
49 posts
The Metamorphoses of Kinship

by Maurice Godelier

A masterwork of the anthropology of kinship by the heir to Levi-Strauss.

5 posts
The Erotic Margin

by Irvin C. Schick

Reviewing the large, disparate, and often contradictory western discourse on gender and sexuality of the Other

4 posts

Dreamers of a New Day

by Sheila Rowbotham
The acclaimed exploration of the women who revolutionized American and British life.
31 posts
Edward Carpenter

by Sheila Rowbotham
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize: The acclaimed biography of the pioneering advocate of free love, gay rights and women’s suffrage.
11 posts
Gender Equality

Edited by Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers
An urgent call for real-world solutions to gender inequality.
11 posts
Red Velvet Seat

Edited by Antonia Lant
A compendious anthology of women's writing on film.
4 posts

Lust For Life

Edited by Carla Harryman, Avital Ronell, et al.
Scholars and artists on the transgressive twentieth-century literary icon.
4 posts
Sexuality in the Field of Vision

by Jacqueline Rose
Feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.
10 posts
Bushwomen

by Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders assesses the central role of women—and sexual politics—in the 2004 Republican victory.
1 post
Family Secrets

by Annette Kuhn
“Reshapes the relations between feminism and cultural studies.”—Meaghan Morris
5 posts

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