Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
By: Michelle Bowdler
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
She Said meets Know My Name in Michelle Bowdler's provocative debut, telling the story of her rape …
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1. Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
By: Kate Harding
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest. Congressman Todd Akin's "legitimate" gaffe. The alleged rape crew … read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
2. Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America
By: Rebecca Solnit , Cheryl Strayed , Jamia Wilson , Katha Pollitt , Jessica Valenti , Jill Filipovic , Jude Ellison S. Doyle , Samantha Irby , Randa Jarrar , Kera Bolonik , Kate Harding , Carina Chocano , Sarah Hepola , Alicia Garza , Nicole Chung , None , Samhita Mukhopadhyay , None , None , Mary Kathryn Nagle , Meredith Talusan , None , None
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Twenty-Three Leading Feminist Writers on Protest and Solidarity When 53 percent of white women vote… read more
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3. Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
By: Roxane Gay
4.43
Format: 368 pages, ebook
Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay has edited a collection of essays that explore wh… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- social justice
- adult
- audiobook
"Angry women care. Angry women speak and yell and sob their truths."-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
"I am a real survivor because I survived, even if some days it feels like I didn't survive at all."-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
"Anger is the privilege of the truly broken, and yet, I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry."-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
"It is more like carrying something really heavy, forever. You do not get to put it down: you have to carry it, and so you carry it the way you need to, however it fits best."-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
4. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
5. One Way Back: A Memoir
By: Christine Blasey Ford
4.30
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. How to Fight Anti-Semitism
By: Bari Weiss
4.19
Format: 224 pages, ebook
The prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the a… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It's hard to imagine "Fuck Jews" as being anything other than a statement of anti-Semitism."-Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism
"Europe is very good at building memorials for dead Jews. It is still learning how to protect the living ones. Vigils honor the dead, but they don't do much for the living. Solidarity does."-Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism
"No country is immune to criticism, nor should it be. But when that criticism takes the form of singling out just one country, unfairly, bitterly and relentlessly, over and over and over, that’s just …"-Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism
"When anti-Zionism becomes a normative political position, active anti-Semitism becomes the norm. Because if you believe that Zionism is racism, it follows that Zionists are racists. And everyone know…"-Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism
7. Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
By: Kate Manne
4.21
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
An urgent exploration of men’s entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the a… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"by] torture for the rest of their slutty lives."-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
"厌女症不应该被理解为一种对女性根深蒂固的强烈仇恨心理，而应该理解成父权制（patriarchy）在“执法"-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
"function. In my previous book, Down Girl, I argued that misogyny should not be understood as a monolithic, deep-seated psychological hatred of girls and women. Instead, it’s best conceptualized as th…"-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
"Studies show there is but one circumstance in which men’s and women’s household work will tend to approach parity: when she works full-time and he is unemployed. And even then, the operative word is …"-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
8. Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
By: Judith Lewis Herman
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, an “extraordinary” and “profound” ( New York … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"Violence does not need to be used very often; it merely needs to be convincing when it is used."-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
"Rape could be considered the signal crime of male supremacy, a pure enactment of power for its own sake."-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
"Retributive anger—what I would call blind rage or humiliated fury—is what people feel when they are alone and abandoned to their fates. The wish to retaliate is born of isolation and helplessness."-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
"In our system of criminal law, the state, not the victim, is actually considered the injured party, and it is the state, not the victim, that has the exclusive right to take action against a criminal…"-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
9. How to Overcome Your Childhood
By: The School of Life
4.08
Format: 91 pages, Kindle Edition
A guide to breaking free from the enduring, and sometimes damaging, behavioral patterns we learned … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
10. Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
By: Michelle Bowdler
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
She Said meets Know My Name in Michelle Bowdler's provocative debut, telling the story of her rape … read more
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- true crime
- memoir
- feminism
- politics
- adult
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- crime
- audiobook
11. The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out)
By: Tina Nguyen
3.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An explosive, first-person account of the alt-right from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen… read more
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- memoir
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence
By: Anita Hill
4.18
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
"An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
14. #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing
By: Emily Joy Allison
4.35
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
When Emily Joy Allison outed her abuser on Twitter, she launched #ChurchToo, a movement to expose t… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists
By: Set Sytes
3.94
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A highly imaginative and relatable guide for anyone who needs the reassurance that suicide is NEVER… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Staying alive with a brain bent on self-annihilation, in a world that doesn't necessarily value your worth, is the ultimate radical act."-Set Sytes, How Not to Kill Yourself: A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists
"The only things that could be considered wrong with you could also be considered the fault of the world around you. There is little-to-nothing intrinsically wrong with you."-Set Sytes, How Not to Kill Yourself: A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists
"Laughter really is the best medicine and there are no strict lines to be drawn for its use. You shouldn't assume you understand why someone is joking about something and you should never ever rob som…"-Set Sytes, How Not to Kill Yourself: A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists
16. Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence
By: Tanya Selvaratnam
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from for… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
17. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
By: torrin a. greathouse
4.42
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a dev… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. I Cried to Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder, and Deliverance -- A Memoir
By: Sara Kruzan
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
There is perhaps no crime more disturbing than the abuse of a child—and no court cases as upsetting… read more
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- true crime
- memoir
- feminism
- adult
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
19. Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers
By: Deborah Tuerkheimer
4.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this landmark book, a former prosecutor, legal expert, and leading authority on sexual violence … read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- crime
- audiobook
20. Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide
By: Rachel Zimmerman
4.41
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resi… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
21. Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement
By: Shelly Oria
4.36
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
"Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter," said Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford when she testified t… read more
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- feminism
- social justice
- nonfiction
- memoir
"But what is the word for what I experienced after? What is the word for how I awoke to fear and never went back to sleep?"-Shelly Oria, Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement
"I do not conceptualize our current reality as a gender-war. The fight, it seems to me, is one where ethical people of all genders work together paving a path toward legal and institutional change....…"-Shelly Oria, Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement
