5 must-read feminism books like Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice by Patricia Leavy

Cover of Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice by Patricia Leavy

Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice

By: Patricia Leavy

4.15

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Exploring the breadth of contemporary feminist research practices, this engaging text immerses the …

If you liked the feminism plot in Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice by Patricia Leavy , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado

1. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.84

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties: Stories book and Patricia Leavy's Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice

  • feminism
"I'm having a crisis of function."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"None of us will make it to the end."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Cover of Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Dalai Lama XIV, Thich Nhat Hanh, Arnold Kotler

2. Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

By: Dalai Lama XIV , Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler

4.31

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. … read more

Similar categories in Dalai Lama XIV's Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life book and Patricia Leavy's Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice

"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."

-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

"If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love."

-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

"I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it."

-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

"Mindful observation is based on the principle of “non-duality"

-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Cover of Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality by Gloria E. Anzaldúa, None

3. Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality

By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , None

4.08

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Written during the last decade of her life, Light in the Darkrepresents the culmination of Gloria E… read more

Similar categories in Gloria E. Anzaldúa's Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality book and Patricia Leavy's Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice

  • feminism
Cover of Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed

4. Living a Feminist Life

By: Sara Ahmed

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Living a Feminist LifeSara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and t… read more

Similar categories in Sara Ahmed's Living a Feminist Life book and Patricia Leavy's Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice

  • feminism
Cover of The Elements of Style by E.B. White, William Strunk Jr.

5. The Elements of Style

By: E.B. White , William Strunk Jr.

4.18

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis is … read more

Similar categories in E.B. White's The Elements of Style book and Patricia Leavy's Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice

"He owned"

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"To achieve style, begin by affecting none."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

6. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

Similar categories in Angela Y. Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete? book and Patricia Leavy's Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice

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

7. 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

Similar categories in Mikki Kendall's Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot book and Patricia Leavy's Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice

  • feminism
"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

Cover of Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice by Patricia Leavy

8. Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice

By: Patricia Leavy

4.15

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Exploring the breadth of contemporary feminist research practices, this engaging text immerses the … read more

Similar categories in Patricia Leavy's Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice book and Patricia Leavy's Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice

  • feminism
Cover of Transdisciplinary Feminist Research: Innovations in Theory, Method and Practice (Routledge Research in Gender and Society) by Carol A. Taylor

9. Transdisciplinary Feminist Research: Innovations in Theory, Method and Practice (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)

By: Carol A. Taylor

4.57

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

What is feminist transdisciplinary research? Why is it important? How do we do it? Through 19 contr… read more

Similar categories in Carol A. Taylor's Transdisciplinary Feminist Research: Innovations in Theory, Method and Practice (Routledge Research in Gender and Society) book and Patricia Leavy's Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice

11 best-selling nonfiction books like The Elements of Style by E.B. White, William Strunk Jr.

Transform Your Habits

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Lynne Truss

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Point Made: How to Write Like the Nation's Top Advocates

Ross Guberman

3.77

Transform Your Habits

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser

4.24

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.