The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
By: Mona Eltahawy
4.21
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and d…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Racism and bigotry are not polite, and I refuse to be polite in my fight against them."-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
"Racism and bigotry are not polite, and I refuse to be polite in my fight against them."-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
"Racism and bigotry are not polite, and I refuse to be polite in my fight against them."-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
"Patriarchy wants to control vaginas, but it also wants to control who has the right to even say the word “vagina."-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
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2. Sheer Folly (Daisy Dalrymple, #18)
By: Carola Dunn
3.87
Format: 400 pages,
In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator Lucy aka Lady Gerald, vi… read more
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3. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
By: Brittney Cooper
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Black women are often considered angry and divisive in their interactions with others in both publi… read more
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4. Something to Answer For
By: P.H. Newby
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
P. H. Newby's seventeenth novel Something To Answer Forwas assured of a place in literary history w… read more
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5. Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
By: Anne Helen Petersen
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From celebrity gossip expert and BuzzFeed culture writer Anne Helen Petersen comes an accessible, a… read more
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6. Pansy
By: Andrea Gibson
3.41
Format: None pages, Paperback
In PANSY, Gibson balances themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, illness, family and forgiven… read more
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7. Lughnasadh: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for Lammas
By: Melanie Marquis
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Llewellyn's Sabbat Essentials series explores the old and new ways of celebrating the seasonal rite… read more
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8. The Elected Member
By: Bernice Rubens
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; b… read more
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9. Downtown Owl
By: Chuck Klosterman
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Somewhere in North Dakota, there is a town called Owl that isn't there. Disco is over, but punk nev… read more
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10. Sortir de l'hétérosexualité
By: Juliet Drouar
4.20
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Et si nous étions des personnes plutôt que des femmes ou des hommes ? Notre société trie les enf… read more
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"Or, tant que les féministes continueront à revendiquer une égalité entre hommes et femmes, elles continueront à conserver, perpétuer et justifier une différenciation entre les personnes, et donc des …"-Juliet Drouar, Sortir de l'hétérosexualité
11. The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life
By: Clare Carlisle
4.13
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who ex… read more
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12. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion
By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair
4.51
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in p… read more
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13. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
By: Caroline Criado Pérez
4.35
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and… read more
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"When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
"It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
"You don’t have to realise you’re being discriminated against to in fact be discriminated against."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
"There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
14. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
By: Soraya Chemaly
4.35
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a … read more
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"Rage became a layer of my skin."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
"Every woman has a rape story, whether she has been sexually assaulted or not."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
"... if a man gets angry, he's having an off day, if a woman does, she's a raging bitch."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
"I wanted to own my anger, because it brought me back to myself. It gave me clarity and purpose."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
15. Health Communism
By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more
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16. 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
17. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
By: Ahed Tamimi
4.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more
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18. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
By: Micha Frazer-Carroll
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’ Dazed ‘E… read more
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19. Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
By: Rebecca Traister
4.37
Format: 320 pages, ebook
From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies comes a vital… read more
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"Women's anger has been buried, over and over again. But it has seeded the ground; we are the green shoots of furies covered up long ago."-Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
"Women's ire in any political context remains coded as chaotic, while men's is comprehensible, understood as rational and often admirable."-Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
"As Amanda Litman... has written, 'Instead of resisting (anger) or avoiding it, let your fury push you to action. Embrace your anger and put it to work."-Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
"When somebody manages to project a lot of strength and a lot of warmth, we say they're charismatic and magnetic, we want to be with that person, we want to be that person,' said Neffinger."-Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
20. Lost Ark Dreaming
By: Suyi Davies Okungbowa
3.69
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon’s The Deep in this high… read more
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21. We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too)
By: Kate Cohen
4.31
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
"It's an inspiring book that will—hopefully—push us toward a larger cultural conversation in which … read more
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22. 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
23. Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.21
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Th… read more
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"Measured over too short a span, change becomes imperceptible; people mistake today's peculiarities for eternal verities."-Rebecca Solnit, Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
"As a girl, I would have liked to have my intelligence and intellectual labors regarded as an unmitigated good and as a source of pride, rather than something I had to handle delicately, lest I upset …"-Rebecca Solnit, Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
"Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action. Among the virtues that matter are those tr…"-Rebecca Solnit, Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
24. You Have the Right to Remain Fat
By: Virgie Tovar
4.27
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after … read more
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"Any future that doesn't center the eradication of oppression and collective freedom is not a future worth imagining."-Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat
"You cannot earn freedom through conformity. You cannot buy your way in And we can only claim it when we recognize it is already ours."-Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat
"My life wouldn't be easier if I were thin. My life would be easier if this culture wasn't obsessed with oppressing me because I'm fat. The solution to a problem like bigotry is not to do everything i…"-Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat
"I think about the thousand ways that the women in my family were silently (and sometimes outright) expected to give up their lives, their dreams, and their desires, so that they could become the glor…"-Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat
25. Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
By: Maya Dusenbery
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the e… read more
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"As one patient with chronic fatigue syndrome put it, 'The difference between a crazed neurotic and a seriously ill person is simply a test."-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
"To be sure, depression, anxiety, and prolonged stress can cause specific physical symptoms, but these symptoms are not limitless, nor are they actually unexplained. When doctors invoke these labels f…"-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
"Indeed, these two contradictory extremes that medicine has tended to vacillate between: either women's reproductive functions are pathologized as innately abnormal - in which case any symptoms they b…"-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
26. The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
By: Mona Eltahawy
4.21
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and d… read more
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"Racism and bigotry are not polite, and I refuse to be polite in my fight against them."-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
"Patriarchy wants to control vaginas, but it also wants to control who has the right to even say the word “vagina."-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
"Patriarchy keeps us terrified, demanding from us an endless supply of patience, passivity, and obedience, as it pathologiezes and snuffs out our justifiable rage."-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
"Men cannot sit back and say, 'Well, I'm not rich and powerful; that's not me.' It is you - if you are not actively dismantling the patriarchy, you are factually benefiting from it. Are you uncomforta…"-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
27. Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger
By: Lilly Dancyger
4.30
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
A rich, nuanced exploration of women's anger from a diverse group of writers Women are angry, and … read more
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"When she looked down at me, though terrified, I felt more seen than I'd ever felt under another person's gaze. I have since learned that recognizing the invisible parts of oneself in another person c…"-Lilly Dancyger, Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger
"As sure as she is becoming a woman, she is also being indoctrinated into a system I recognize- one that rewards female martyrdom with adoration and gratitude but leaves little room for her to air her…"-Lilly Dancyger, Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger
"Everything I've learned from the time I was born is essentially some form of control. Basic lessons: how to control my hands, my body. Advanced lessons: how to control my volume, my appearance. Havin…"-Lilly Dancyger, Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger
28. Patience and Not-Forsaken
By: Alix E. Harrow
3.43
Format: None pages, MP3 CD
In Harrow's eerie tale of madness and heartache, Patience, diagnosed with a "nervous disposition," … read more
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29. Inner Glimpse
By: Idil Ahmed
4.47
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
Inner Glimpse is about accessing your own inner power. You are the one who already carries the code… read more
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30. Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania
By: Kathryn Hughes
3.62
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
How cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century, transforming cats from pests into beloved pe… read more
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31. Grass*: Strategie e pensieri per corpi liberi dalla grassofobia
By: Elisa Manici
3.99
Format: 61 pages, Paperback
Le persone grasse vengono schernite per strada, vengono insultate se osano esporsi sui social, non … read more
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