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Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

by Sophie Lewis

What if family were not the only place you might hope to feel safe, loved, cared for and accepted?

12 posts
Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom

by Rosalind Petchesky
Abortion Beyond the Law: Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-Managed Abortion

by Naomi Braine
After Work: The Fight for Free Time

by Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek

For a feminist post-work politics

American Homo

by Jeffrey Escoffier

A sweeping account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed society

5 posts
The Anti-Social Family

by Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

Sensitive but uncompromising socialist-feminist critique of the nuclear family

27 posts
The Attack Queers

by Richard Goldstein

Charts and critiques the rise of the gay right.
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller

An unconventional history of homosexuality

8 posts

Beyond the Pale

by Vron Ware

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

38 posts
Bodies Under Siege: How the Far–Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global

by Sian Norris

An exposé of how far-right extremists across Europe use attacks on abortion to introduce broader fascist politics--and their connections to the American far right, from a leading investigative journalist.
Burn It Down!

Edited by Breanne Fahs

A comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos, chronicling rage and dreams from the nineteenth century to the present day

31 posts
Bushwomen

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

Cinderella Goes to Market

by Barbara Einhorn
Assessing the position of women before and after the fall of state socialism.
4 posts
Close to Home

by Christine Delphy
Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism
27 posts
Constituting Feminist Subjects

by Kathi Weeks

A groundbreaking attempt to theorise the feminist subject

7 posts
Daddy Issues

by Katherine Angel

On the fraught bonds between daughters and their fathers, women and the patriarchy.

1 post

Daring to Hope

by Sheila Rowbotham

A personal history of life, love and women’s liberation

5 posts
De Colores Means All of Us

by Elizabeth Martínez

A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity

13 posts
Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race

by Sita Balani

A groundbreaking new analysis of the making of modernity, sexuality and race
Democracy in the Political Present: A Queer-Feminist Theory

by Isabell Lorey

A queer feminist theory of democracy

1 post

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