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Trans

by Juliet Jacques
An extraordinary memoir of transition and transgender politics and culture
33 posts
Invisibility Blues

by Michele Wallace

Classic work of black feminism

45 posts
Rebel Crossings

by Sheila Rowbotham

The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century

19 posts
Close to Home

by Christine Delphy
Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism
28 posts

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

by Kumari Jayawardena
A founding text of transnational feminism
32 posts
False Choices

Edited by Liza Featherstone

“Intensely engrossing ... A damning portrait of both Clinton and American politics.” – Publisher's Weekly

53 posts
SCUM Manifesto

by Valerie Solanas

Avital Ronell reconsiders Solanas in light of her social milieu.

14 posts
Beyond the Pale

by Vron Ware

Pioneering study of how ideas about white women have shaped the history of racism

40 posts

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

32 posts
Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World

by Sheila Rowbotham

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

35 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
8 posts
Women’s Oppression Today

by Michèle Barrett

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

27 posts
Playing the Whore

by Melissa Gira Grant

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

48 posts

Women, Resistance and Revolution

by Sheila Rowbotham

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

33 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.
32 posts

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