Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
By: Lola Olufemi
4.43
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
More than just a slogan on a t-shirt, feminism is a radical tool for fighting back against structur…
Want to Read $ 10.00"Feminist work is justice work"-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"Feminist work is justice work"-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"Legality does not equal access."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"Legality does not equal access."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
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1. Women, Race & Class
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.58
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more
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"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class
2. Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
By: Silvia Federici
3.68
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
Written between 1975 and the present, the essays collected in this volume represent years of resear… read more
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3. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
By: bell hooks
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist Theory:… read more
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4. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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5. Fix the System, Not the Women
By: Laura Bates
4.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more
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"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women
6. Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
By: Rafia Zakaria
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided… read more
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"Trickle-down feminism, everyone assumed, would miraculously fast forward the realization of a gender-equal, free market world created in the self image of America."-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"White and western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies. Their problems cannot be solved with a single, neat gift. Women of color are imagined as existing in a much simpler world…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"But American journalists, female journalists in particular, created a narrative for the war on terror that reaffirmed it as one fought by a feminist America, against anti-feminist, primitive, patriar…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"Capitalist forces have looked to depoliticize as many spheres as possible. To create a feminist politics of solidarity, women have to recognize the forces that push them apart and push them into mean…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
7. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
8. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
By: Audre Lorde
4.55
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more
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"There are no new pains."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
9. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
By: Katherine Angel
4.08
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of Me… read more
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"The fantasy of total autonomy, and of total self-knowledge, is not only a fantasy; it’s a nightmare."-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
"Any model of consent can prove itself worthless if a man is not open to his sexual partner's no, or her changing desires, and if he responds to either of these with a rage borne of humiliation."-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
"Why not aim for sex itself as being deeply mutually pleasurable? Why not aim for a culture that embraces and enables women’s sexual pleasure, in all its complexity, and admits the complexity of male …"-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
"Instead of resigning ourselves to the inevitability of bad sex, and even romanticizing it as merely youthful misadventure, we should subject it to sustained scrutiny. Bad sex emerges from gender norm…"-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
10. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
11. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
12. Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
By: Lola Olufemi
4.43
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
More than just a slogan on a t-shirt, feminism is a radical tool for fighting back against structur… read more
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"Feminist work is justice work"-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"Legality does not equal access."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"A feminism that seeks power instead of questioning it does not care about justice."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"If feminism means freedom, it means the right to self-determination and the right to be multi-dimensional, disorganised and even incoherent."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
13. Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty
By: Emma Dabiri
4.06
Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition
An unmissable essay from Emma Dabiri, Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and Wh… read more
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14. Abolition. Feminism. Now.
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.31
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more
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15. Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
By: Cinzia Arruzza
4.03
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change—these a… read more
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"confront head on, the real source of crisis and misery, which is capitalism."-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
"who will guide the process of societal transformation, in whose interest, and to what end?"-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
"What we are living through is a crisis of society as a whole—and its root cause is capitalism."-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
"Liberal feminism’s ethos converges not only with corporate mores but also with supposedly “transgressive"-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
16. Frankenstein
By: Sveta Grigorjeva
4.59
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Sveta Grigorjeva kolmas luulekogu „Frankenstein” pöörab senistest enam tähelepanu avarama, mutantja… read more
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17. Radical Intimacy
By: Sophie K. Rosa
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more
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18. White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
By: Ruby Hamad
4.56
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon … read more
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"This weaponization of White Womanhood continues to be the centerpiece of an arsenal used to maintain the status quo and punish anyone who dares challenge it."-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
"White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both wom…"-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
"Yes, it is true women of color have been the targets of a setup of monumental proportions, something that amounts to nothing short of a covert war against us. But it is also true that these attacks a…"-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
19. Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
By: Audre Lorde
4.63
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
From The Guardian. Oct. 4, 2017. R.O. Kwon "Lorde seems prophetic, perhaps alive right now, wri… read more
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"whatever was hidden out of fear could always be used either against the children or ourselves — one imperfect but useful argument for honesty. The knowledge of fear can help make us free."-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
"In a society where the good is defined in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, there must always be some group of people who, through systematised oppression, can be made to feel surpl…"-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
"In order to be whole, we must recognise the despair oppression plants within each of us — that thin persistent voice that says our efforts are useless, it will never change, so why bother, accept it.…"-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
"As women, we have come to distrust that power which rises from our deepest and nonrational knowledge. We have been warned against it all our lives by the male world, which values this depth of feelin…"-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
20. It's Not That Radical
By: Mikaela Loach
4.47
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For too long, representations of climate action in the mainstream media have been white-washed, gre… read more
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21. Un féminisme décolonial
By: Françoise Vergès
4.35
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Pourquoi le terme « féministe » est-il librement approprié à la fois par l’extrême droite, la gauch… read more
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22. Now Go: On Grief and Studio Ghibli
By: Karl Thomas Smith
3.55
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Grief is all around us. At the heart of the brightly coloured, vividly characterised, joyful films … read more
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23. We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights
By: Beth Ditto
4.24
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
How can we create a better world for LGBTQ+ people? Olly Alexander, Peppermint, Owen Jones, Beth Di… read more
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24. The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing
By: Hannah Dawson
4.36
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
Feminism is the insight that sexism exists, and the struggle against that oppression. The Penguin B… read more
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25. BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship (Inklings, #16)
By: Anahit Behrooz
4.13
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
BFFs examines female friendship as a site of radical intimacy, as told through the cultural touchst… read more
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26. Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine
By: Nada Elia
4.58
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An inspiring and intersectional re-imagining of the path to liberation in Palestine 'An inspiring c… read more
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27. Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons
By: Cradle Community
4.35
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The fight for prison abolition is a struggle for collective liberation: a transformative vision of … read more
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"Crime is a construct that changes depending on its targets, applied to some but never to others."-Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons
"The existence of trans people presents a threat to one of the central tenets of the white-supremacist, capitalist state - that we all need to just accept our place within its violent system."-Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons
"In a world where we didn't have to commit most of our energy to making enough money to keep a roof over our heads, we might actually have time to engage in self-reflection, community care and collect…"-Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons
"Trans people's counter-conception of gender as a joyful and imaginative experience rattles these 'trans-exclusionary radical feminists' or TERFs, for whom gender is simply indicative of one's biologi…"-Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons
28. Fare femminismo
By: Giulia Siviero
4.32
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
Nella storia dei femminismi, il racconto delle pratiche è spesso rimasto ai margini. Eppure la poli… read more
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29. Gender Theory
By: Madeline Docherty
4.27
Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
You lose your virginity to a boy from your gender theory seminar, and the first person you tell is … read more
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30. Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill
By: Adèle Oliver
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
In recent years, thousands of drill music videos have been indexed by UK police forces, some of whi… read more
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31. To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe
By: Akwugo Emejulu
4.36
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
This book brings together activists, artists, and scholars of color to show how Black feminism and … read more
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