Feminism & Feminist Theory

Molly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (18361932), an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and...

In The Equality Illusion, 'the most influential young feminist in the country' (Guardian) and UK Feminista founder Kat Banyard argues passionately ...

At the beginning of the 1990s, the Senate didn't believe Anita Hill, Rush Limbaugh compared feminists to Nazis, and a study found that girls tended...

The Geek Feminist Revolution is a collection of essays by double Hugo Award-winning essayist and fantasy novelist Kameron Hurley. The book collects...

'Kate Manne is the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century' - Amanda Marcotte'I want to press this book on every schoolgirl who thinks that feminism...

'Brilliant poems of complex, haunting power... Averno may be Glück's masterpiece' The New York Times Book ReviewAn acclaimed collection from the No...

A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poetFor the past fifty years, Louise Gluck has been a major force in mod...

A bold and unabashed guide to finding your voice, harnessing your true desires, and leading the life you really want. Women are tired of worrying t...

In this provocative and now-classic work, Friedrich Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society t...

Rooted in historical, site-based, narrative, and political accounts, Full Surrogacy Now is the seriously radical cry for full gestational justice t...

How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism?Feminism is the ongoing story of a ...

Women's Oppression Today is now a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism and has been reprinted many times since its first publicati...

Born on the Idaho frontier, Florence James was a New York City suffragette. The first to put Jimmy Cagney on stage, she founded both the Negro Repe...

Your Silence Will Not Protect You collects the essential essays and poems of Audre Lorde for the first time, including the classic The Masters Tool...

Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passé theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between ...

Its time to rethink rape. Centuries of different approaches to rape as inflicted by men on women have got us nowhere. Rape statistics remain intr...

Eleanor Roosevelt stands as one of the world''s greatest humanitarians, having dedicated her remarkable life to the liberty and equality of all peo...

In a context marked by the virulent return of patriarchal and white supremacist attitudes, a new generation of feminist activists are continuing th...

From Hillary Clinton to Ivanka Trump and from Emma Watson all the way to Beyoncé, more and more high-powered women are unabashedly identifying as f...

How can we understand and contest the global wave of violence against women? In this book, Alison Brysk shows that gender violence across countries...

Revolutionizing Feminism offers the first feminist analysis of the human rights crisis in the Philippines during the Arroyo presidency (2001-2010) ...

A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial i...

On September 23, 1947, the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires filled with jubilant men and women celebrating a new law that gave women the same right as...

One of Oprah Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of 2021! 'Genre-bending and darkly comic, Grushin's fourth novel is a weird and wonderful triumph.'A...

''Passionate and urgent.'' Guardian, Book of the Week ''A must-read for all.'' Stylist, best new books for 2020 ''Cogently argued and intensely p...

So what if it''s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper ...

'If Caitlin Moran's How To Be A Womanis the fun-filled manual for female survival in the 21st century, everyday sexism is its more politicised sist...

African American women have been up and doing for their communities for as long as they have been in the United States, and their ability to resist...

When women were admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in 1860, female art students gained a foothold in the most conservative art institution in...

What are the contemporary issues in abortion politics globally? What factors explain variations in access to abortion between and within different...

Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late ni...