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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

24 posts
Playing the Whore

by Melissa Gira Grant

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

42 posts
Women, Resistance and Revolution

by Sheila Rowbotham

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

31 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.
28 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.
9 posts

Red Velvet Seat

Edited by Antonia Lant
A comprehensive anthology of women’s film culture, from the origins of cinema to 1950
2 posts
Lust For Life

Edited by Carla Harryman, Avital Ronell, et al.
Scholars and artists on the transgressive twentieth-century literary icon.
2 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
3 posts

The Power to Choose

by Naila Kabeer

A powerful analysis of how globalization is affecting the lives of women at work.

2 posts
The Attack Queers

by Richard Goldstein

Charts and critiques the rise of the gay right.
Female Sexualization

by Frigga Haug
Enlightening perspectives on femininity and sexualization.
6 posts
Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas

Edited by Marit Melhuus and Kristi Anne Stølen
The true picture of gender relations in Latin America.
1 post

Mapping the Women's Movement

Edited by Monica Threlfall

Second-wave feminism is now in its third decade.
Integrating Gender

by Catherine Hoskyns
A feminist perspective on the European Union’s operations and equality policies.
19 posts
A Millennium of Family Change

by Wally Seccombe
A powerful study of the changing structure of families.
6 posts
White Guys

by Fred Pfeil
“Cultural studies you can actually use.”—Spin
1 post

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