6 must-read feminism books like Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control by Betsy Hartmann

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Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control

By: Betsy Hartmann

4.14

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

With a new prologue by the author, this feminist classic is an important gateway into the controver…

If you liked the feminism plot in Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control by Betsy Hartmann , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

1. Between the World and Me

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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2. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

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  • politics
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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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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  • feminism
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice

4. Kindred

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindredhas become a cornerstone of black Americ… read more

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5. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

By: Pete Walker

3.99

Format: 512 pages,

I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced… read more

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6. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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7. Systems Thinking for Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results

By: None

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serv… read more

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8. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

By: Dorothy Roberts

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activ… read more

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9. The Cartographers

By: Peng Shepherd

3.63

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young’s whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her f… read more

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"Grief can raze a face far worse than ten times as many years. (Romi's chapter, Libby @p735/921)."

-Peng Shepherd, The Cartographers

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10. Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

By: Da’Shaun Harrison

4.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Exploring anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender ide… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Ugly is political. It is the determiner for who does and does not work; who does and does not Love; who does and does not die; who does and does not eat."

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What is the utility of "body positivity" if it only seeks to provide one with a false sense of confidence rather than to liberate all from that which cages the body?"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What would it mean for us to lean into Insecurity as a political tool in which we free ourselves from insisting that we perform "perfection" and total confidence in order to advocate for our collecti…"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What I am really naming here is the complicatedness of feeling both affirmed and harmed by your assault because your body is never really your own when you're fat and Black, and the trauma you arrive…"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

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11. Gods of Jade and Shadow

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.89

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this one-of-a-k… read more

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"You did not rescue me,"

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

"It was beauty you couldn't hold."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

"The things you name grow in power."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

"Courage is the greatest of virtues,"

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

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12. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

Cover of Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

13. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

By: Mikki Kendall

4.37

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more

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  • race
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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14. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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15. The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

By: Priya Parker

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at wor… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Chill" is a selfishness disguised as kindness"

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

"Good controversy is much more likely to happen when it is invited in but carefully structured."

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

"In a world of infinite choices, choosing one thing is the revolutionary act. Imposing that restriction is actually liberating."

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

"Barack Obama's aunt once told him, 'If everyone is family, no one is family.' It is blood that makes a tribe, a border that makes a nation. The same is true of gatherings. So here is a corollary to h…"

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

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16. Manhunt

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.54

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive… read more

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"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"He pressed a kiss to the crown of her head and she let him hold her close among the falling leaves and relished the illusion that, if only for a little while, she was safe."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

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17. 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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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"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

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18. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version

By: Mao Zedong

3.45

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung is a book of statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zed… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"An army of the people is invincible!"

-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version

"Todo o conhecimento genuíno tem origem na experiência direta."

-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version

"A política é uma guerra sem derramamento de sangue, e a guerra uma política com derramamento de sangue."

-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version

"A crítica deve fazer-se a tempo; não há que se deixar levar pelo mau costume de criticar só depois de consumados os fatos."

-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version

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19. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.41

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

20. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

By: Amanda Leduc

4.09

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life."

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

" It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that mean…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

"Most importantly, it's a message that assumes absolute and unrealistic able-bodiedness. No one with glasses. No crutches, no wheelchairs, no visible differences from girl to girl apart from the colou…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

"If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society wi…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

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21. Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control

By: Betsy Hartmann

4.14

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

With a new prologue by the author, this feminist classic is an important gateway into the controver… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
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9 must-read politics books like Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control by Betsy Hartmann

Transform Your Habits

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

Da’Shaun Harrison

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

4.37

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7 Top adult books like Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

Transform Your Habits

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

Emily Ladau

4.41

Transform Your Habits

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Joe Vallese

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Amanda Leduc

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Blood Orange

Yaffa As

4.60

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