Rough: How violence has found its way into the bedroom and what we can do about it
By: Rachel Thompson
4.01
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Rough is a revolutionary non-fiction work exploring the narratives of sexual violence that we don't…
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1. Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
By: Russell Brand
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, fo… read more
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"The condition in extreme is identifiable but the less obvious version of addiction is still painful and arguably worse because we simply adapt to living in pain."-Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
"The reason I continue to is because they have awakened me to the impossibility of happiness based on my previous world view: that I am the centre of the world and that what I want is important."-Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
"The feeling you have that 'there's something else' is real. What happens when you don't follow the compulsion? What is on the other side of my need [...]? The only way to find out is to not do it, an…"-Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
"The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem is ultimately 'being human' in an environment that i…"-Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
2. 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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- womens
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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
3. Watching Women & Girls
By: Danielle Pender
3.69
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Every aspect of her body or personality was up for inspection: too big, too small, too available, … read more
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"It's very boring to call people crazy because they don't do what you tell them to"-Danielle Pender, Watching Women & Girls
4. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
5. On Women
By: Susan Sontag
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on ag… read more
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"Dividing time into Past, Present, and Future suggests that reality is distributed equally among three parts, but in fact the past is the most real of all. The future is, inevitably, an accumulation o…"-Susan Sontag, On Women
6. Sex Object: A Memoir
By: Jessica Valenti
3.66
Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition
Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gend… read more
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"Still, somehow, inexplicably, “man-hater"-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir
"What is crazy about killing a woman in a culture that tells you that women's lives are worth nothing?"-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir
"Because while my daughter lives in a world that knows what happens to women is wrong, it has also accepted this wrongness as inevitable."-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir
"Because even subversive sarcasm adds a cool-girl nonchalance, an updated, sharper version of the expectation that women be forever pleasant, even as we're eating shit."-Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir
7. 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
8. The List
By: Yomi Adegoke
3.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more
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"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
9. I'm Afraid of Men
By: Vivek Shraya
4.23
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a… read more
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"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
10. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
11. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
By: Elizabeth Comen
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicin… read more
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"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
12. 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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"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
13. The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood That Heals Us
By: Chimene Suleyman
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her… read more
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14. One of the Good Guys
By: Araminta Hall
3.52
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
If most men claim to be good, why are most women still afraid to walk home alone at night? Despe… read more
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15. Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them
By: Jessica Taylor
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Angry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, bor… read more
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16. Rough: How violence has found its way into the bedroom and what we can do about it
By: Rachel Thompson
4.01
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Rough is a revolutionary non-fiction work exploring the narratives of sexual violence that we don't… read more
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17. Misjustice: How British Law is Failing Women
By: Helena Kennedy
4.41
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are still being discrimin… read more
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18. My Body Keeps Your Secrets
By: Lucia Osborne-Crowley
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It occurred to me that the thing that made me the sickest, the thing that made me suffer most, was … read more
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19. Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
By: Nick Bano
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A radical new intervention into the housing debate in the UK, and what we can do about it Why do l… read more
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20. Tenants
By: Vicky Spratt
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022, METRO, EVENING STANDARD, REFINERY29, COSMOPOLITAN'Tenants should be … read more
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21. All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us
By: Kieran Yates
4.26
Format: None pages, Audiobook
‘I tore through the pages. A book I’ll read over and over again’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of… read more
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